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Yes! Or at least I really hope so. While many companies are making screens smaller and more portable, this isn't for watching first run movies. Portable DVD players and video iPODS are for bored minds to fill up time. Long trips or waiting 2 hours for your grandmother to get her hair done are perfect times to watch a movie on a three inch screen, but the movie seems a little lackluster.

Giant screens and giant sounds are what gives a movie some punch! The Lord of the Rings or Matrix trilogy would have been real events in IMAX. IMAX technology is expensive and difficult to handle, which makes it somewhat prohibitive to use, yet go to your nearest IMAX theater and what do you see? "The Secret Life of Ants" or "A Tour Through Your Garden" playing in the movie house. How is it that things like this are filmed in IMAX instead of being aired on the Discover Channel for a quater of the cost and time? Why aren't the big production companies using IMAX technology instead of the same old stuff?

As I said before, IMAX is a very costly way to make a movie and while it doesn't seem like it, movie makers still want to keep costs down and profits up. When IMAX technology drops in cost and gets easier to use, I believe we'll see a lot more big movies on the giant screen. After all, film making is an evolutionary process. We moved from silent films to "talkies". Sound went from mono to stereo, then Dolby and not THX. Black and white movies became color films. Color films became digitally enhanced. We even have the occasional 3D movie (the goofy glasses may have killed them). IMAX is just the next step in the evolutionary process of movies.

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