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At almost 97 feet tall and 117 feet wide, the screen at the Darling Harbour IMAX Theater in Sydney is the largest in the world. And after 16 years of service, it needed to be replaced.
Planning for the upgrade took almost an entire year, and hanging the $250,000 1,760 pound screen required the assistance of 31 riggers. But even though the new screen is now in place, it's still not quite ready to entertain theater patrons again. Once it's stretched taut to remove any and all wrinkles, the screen will be covered in an additional 770 pounds of highly reflective silver paint so the projected images have as much brightness and color saturation as possible.
Planning for the upgrade took almost an entire year, and hanging the $250,000 1,760 pound screen required the assistance of 31 riggers. But even though the new screen is now in place, it's still not quite ready to entertain theater patrons again. Once it's stretched taut to remove any and all wrinkles, the screen will be covered in an additional 770 pounds of highly reflective silver paint so the projected images have as much brightness and color saturation as possible.
http://gizmodo.com/5884299/replacing-the-worlds-biggest-imax-screen-is-as-difficult-as-it-sounds
The behind the scenes video is pretty interesting. If I were a billionaire one of these would certainly be going in my house.
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