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Vie Show Cinemas Taichung Tiger City IMAX

Taichung · TaiwanSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room D, 26/100 — a small room carrying a premium badge — it fails the large-format premise on size, whatever the projector, 125 m² of lit picture. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 October 2026.

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Map position approximate (city centre)

D
~IQ 26provisional

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Spec sheet

Projection
IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
Screen
15.4 m × 8.6 m (132 m²)
Screen shape
1.79:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown
1.90:1
15/70mm film
No
Sound
Not published
Seats
307
Screen type
Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened
2011
Operator

⚠ Still trading, but no longer an IMAX venue. Now MUVIE CINEMAS Taichung Tiger City: 10 halls listed as TITAN SCREEN + digital, no IMAX. TITAN opened Mar 2025.

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.

⚠ LIEMAX — at 15.4m 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 26

Screen size7/38

125 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

Sound0/8

no sound specification published

How big, really?

1234

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
  • 3Vie Show Cinemas Taichung Tiger City IMAX · 15.4×8.6 m · picture 125 m², 6% never lit
  • 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

1 double-decker bus fit on this screen (1 across × 1 up · 132 m² total)

What you actually see

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IMAX digital — what most “IMAX” showings actually are

dark
Screen
132 m²
Picture
125 m²
Screen used
94%

0.5 m of this screen's height — 6% 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.

Worth travelling for?

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

Shin Kong Cinemas Taoyuan Qingpu

Taoyuan · about 70 mi away

B

IN89 Cinemax Chiayi & IMAX

Jiayi City · about 50 mi away

C

Better screens within 75 mi

•Where to next

All of Taiwan

Also in Taichung

Elsewhere in Taiwan

Where this comes from

Single source

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

Screen dimensions
single source
  • · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
Projector
single source
  • · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
Operating status
verified not-imax (2025)

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

Showtimes

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