Imagine you're sat in front of a screen that fills every millimeter of your peripheral vision. Sound surrounds your ears in a way that demands your attention — you'd struggle to look away if you tried. The image clarity forces you to share the anxiety as sweat beads ooze from the pores of a physicist who's praying the bomb he pioneered goes off as planned.
That's the all-encompassing, movie-watching experience you get when plop down in an IMAX theater seat. Although the best TVs are better than ever, and there's all sorts of accruements you can buy to create the ultimate home theater, you can't fit a screen over 1,000 inches on the diagonal in your living room.
