Carnival Vista IMAX

Miami · United StatesSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room D, 24/100 — a small room carrying a premium badge — it fails the large-format premise on size, whatever the projector, 92 m² of lit picture. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 September 2026.

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Map position approximate (city centre)

~IQ 24provisional

IMAX in name. Weigh it against the surcharge.

Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
Screen: 13.2 m × 7.3 m (96 m²)
Screen shape: 1.81:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 187
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2016
Operator

The projector here comes from a 2021 industry listing that we haven't been able to re-confirm. IMAX has converted a lot of screens to laser since — where we could check, 100 venues listed as xenon had been upgraded. Treat the score as indicative.

⚠ LIEMAX — at 13.2m wide this is in the smallest tenth of IMAX screens worldwide (the median is 20 m), showing a 1.90 frame. Good projection can't buy back screen size.

Why IQ 24

Screen size5/38

Projection11/36

Full 1.43 frame8/18

Sound0/8

How big, really?

Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m

1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
2BFI IMAX · 26×20 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
3Carnival Vista · 13.2×7.3 m · picture 92 m², 5% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m

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1 double-decker bus fit on this screen (1 across × 1 up · 96 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 96 m²
Picture: 92 m²
Screen used: 95%

0.4 m of this screen — 5% of it — stays dark for a IMAX 1.90 showing. The projector here can't produce the full 1.43 frame, so the top and bottom of the screen are never used at all.

Worth travelling for?

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AutoNation IMAX, Museum of Discovery & Science

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You'd get 363% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.

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Where this comes from

Single source

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Screen dimensions: single source
Projector: single source
Operating status: verified open

The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.

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