Yes, the IMAX conversion is fairly recent, but it really looks like the movie
was shot originally in IMAX, so it is wonderful to have that technology now
available. The up-conversion of 2001 would theoretically be even better than
70mm Cinerama, which would be pretty awesome.

Some drawbacks of IMAX is that it is a standard ratio format--in other words it
would fit your regular TV screen. It is not widescreen in its standard
incarnation. This is bad for everyone converting to LCD or plasma screens as I
did years ago.

The Apollo 13 IMAX version is also edited differently than the original movie.
At the time, the longest allowable run time was 2 hours and Apollo 13 was longer
than that, so if you watch both versions you will definitely see differences.

As for 2001 in 2001, we had some great things here in southern California at the
Egyptian. Only problem was that they were at the end of the year, not the
beginning. One nice thing about that though was that we ended up having the
final showing of 2001 anywhere in the world during the year 2001, so that was a
huge celebration that night.

Some photos from that event can be found on my 2001 display page at:
http://www.mach25media.com/2001display.html

Take care,

Michelle

--- In 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com, "Collin R. Skocik" <collinskocik@...>
wrote:
>
> Guess it would require a conversion.didn't think of that. I wondered why the
Apollo 13 DVD had the standard movie as well as the IMAX version - I mean,
unless you have an IMAX screen in your living room, what's the point? (I just
bought a DVD called Hail Columbia which is an IMAX movie, and I could quickly
see that it would look better on that huge screen; most of it is presented in
tiny little squares that fill about a fifth of my screen.)
>
> It just seems to me that IMAX is the closest thing we're likely to get to the
Cinerama experience; I think that's been discussed on this list before. I was so
disappointed when the year 2001 came and went with virtually no attention paid
to the movie.at least in this country.
>
> Collin