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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
John Archer

IMAX Enhanced: what is it, how do you get it and is it any good?

A photo of a TV on a wooden stand in a living room. On the screen is the IMAX Enhanced section of the Sony Pictures Core streaming service.

With so many different home cinema technologies now available from so many different brands at so many different price points, everyone’s looking for a sign that might help them pick the wheat from the chaff when trying to figure out which TV, soundbar or AV receiver to buy – especially signs from respected third-party organisations that effectively say ‘we endorse the quality of this product’.

IMAX Enhanced is, in part, one of these signs. If a TV, soundbar, speaker or AV receiver says it’s IMAX Enhanced, then that means it has been deemed capable of reaching a set of standards designed by a certification committee of IMAX and DTS engineers for various aspects of sound and picture quality. This means in turn that it’s deemed capable of doing justice to the IMAX Enhanced ‘format’. 

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