Cineworld Edinburgh IMAX

Edinburgh · United KingdomSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 33/100 — a modest premium screen, 176 m² of lit picture. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 5 November 2026.

Edinburgh's only IMAX opened at Fountain Park in December 2011 as a screen conversion, reseated to 254 recliner-style seats in 2019 while staying on xenon projection.

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~IQ 33provisional

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
Screen: 18.3 m × 10.4 m (190 m²)
Screen shape: 1.76:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: IMAX 6-channel
Seats: 254
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2011
Operator: Cineworld

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, so a 2021 label is a 2021 state rather than a current one. Treat the score as indicative.

Why IQ 33

Screen size10/38

176 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source

Projection11/36

IMAX Digital Xenon · recorded 2021 · one source

Full 1.43 frame8/18

1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show

Sound4/8

IMAX 6-channel · as published

How big, really?

Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m

1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21.0 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
2BFI IMAX · 26×20.0 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
3Cineworld Edinburgh IMAX · 18.3×10.4 m · picture 176 m², 7% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

2 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 190 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 190 m²
Picture: 176 m²
Screen used: 93%

0.8 m of this screen's height — 7% of it — stays dark for an 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.

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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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