SilverCity Victoria Cinemas & IMAX

Victoria · CanadaSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room D, 30/100 — at the bottom of the premium range, 204 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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3130 Tillicum Road - corner of Burnside & Tillicum Road, Victoria, V9A 6T2 · Open in maps ↗

~IQ 30provisional

IMAX in name. Weigh it against the surcharge.

Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
Screen: 19.7 m × 11.4 m (225 m²)
Screen shape: 1.73:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 426
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2011
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.

Why IQ 30

Screen size11/38

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
3SilverCity Victoria Cinemas & IMAX · 19.7×11.4 m · picture 204 m², 9% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

2 double-decker buss fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 225 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 225 m²
Picture: 204 m²
Screen used: 91%

1.0 m of this screen — 9% 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?

Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach

Cineplex Cinemas Langley IMAX

Langley · 60 mi away

You'd get 52% more screen, real 15/70mm film.

SilverCity Riverport Cinemas IMAX

Richmond · 49 mi away

You'd get 53% more screen, real 15/70mm film.

Royal British Columbia Museum

Victoria · 2.8 mi away

You'd get 113% more screen, the full 1.43 frame.

Better screens within 75 mi

•Where to next

All of Canada

Also in Victoria

Royal British Columbia Museum458 m²

Elsewhere in Canada

Where this comes from

Single source

We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.

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.

Showtimes

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