For Every Home, A Video Theater

The New York Times, November 15, 1998

When John Rockwell returned to The New York Times as editor of the Sunday Arts & Leisure section in late 1997, he brought along a fascination with home video technology. By the following fall, his staff was searching for a someone who could write a home theater primer for a dedicated holiday movie section, and someone saw my tongue-in-cheek report in Home Theater magazine about shopping for a Divx DVD player that published earlier in the season. The connection eventually led to this article and my covering of the emerging world of digital cinema for the Times, including a major lead feature that became somewhat controversial.