Shaw Theatres Lido IMAX
Singapore · SingaporeSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 48/100 — a modest premium screen, 154 m² of lit picture, with 10% of the screen never lit. The projector rests on a single source. Data read 5 November 2026.
Singapore's flagship and largest IMAX, Shaw's Orchard Road landmark upgraded to 4K IMAX laser with 12-channel sound.
350 Orchard Road - 5th/6th Floor - Shaw House, Singapore, 238868 · Open in maps ↗
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser
- Screen
- 19 m × 9 m (171 m²)
- Picture area
- 154 m² — 10% of the screen is never lit
- Screen shape
- 2.11:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- IMAX 12-channel
- Seats
- 425
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2011
- Operator
- Shaw Theatres
Why IQ 48
154 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source
IMAX Commercial Laser · one source
1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show
IMAX 12-channel · as published
⌷ Size is scored on the picture, not the fabric. This screen is wider than the frame projected onto it, so bands at the sides are never lit and don't count.
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
- 3Shaw Theatres Lido IMAX · 19×9.0 m · picture 154 m², 10% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
2 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 171 m² total)
What you actually see
Switch format — watch what lights up on this screen · why this matters
IMAX digital — what most “IMAX” showings actually are
- Screen
- 171 m²
- Picture
- 154 m²
- Screen used
- 90%
1.9 m of this screen's width — 10% of it — stays dark for an IMAX 1.90 showing, in bands at the sides.
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
Nothing materially better within 75 mi — this is your best option locally.
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Where this comes from
Single sourceWe treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- single source
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Projector
- single source
- Operating status
- verified open
Sources disagree
The 2021 industry listing records this venue as xenon; we publish laseron the strength of a more recent source. IMAX has converted a great many screens to laser since that listing closed, so the newer record usually wins — but you should know the two don't match.
The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.
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