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Scott Wilkinson has enjoyed 30 years as an author and editor in the home-theater industry. His latest venture is a new bimonthly podcast called AVSForum Tech Talk with Scott Wilkin…

In 1997 I was on the staff of Stereophile magazine as a consulting technical editor, and also a contributor to (and later the editor of) the Stereophile Guide to Home Theater, at the time a nascent publication subsumed into Sound & Vision in the mid 20-aughts (itself a very long story!) We were visited that year by Phil Abbate, then a reporter for the AAS (Atlanta Audio Society, today the Atlanta Audio Club). Phil interviewed me during his visit to Santa Fe, New Mexico, then the headquarters of Stereophile.

In 1997 I was on the staff of Stereophile magazine as a consulting technical editor, and also a contributor to (and later the editor of) the Stereophile Guide to Home Theater, at the time a nascent publication subsumed into Sound & Vision in the mid 20-aughts (itself a very long story!) In any case, we were visited that year by Phil Abbate, then a reporter for the AAS (Atlanta Audio Society, today the Atlanta Audio Club). Phil interviewed me during his visit to Santa Fe, New Mexico, then the headquarters of Stereophile.

In television, as in all things, you can't fully appreciate where you are, and where you're headed, without knowing where you've been. When I moved to the wilds of north Florida eight+ years ago I brought my two plasmas with me (a Pioneer Kuro and one of the last and best plasma sets that Panasonic ever made). Silly me. Plasma by then was a dying TV breed. It had once swamped LCDs as the go-to TV design among videophiles, but by 2015 it had long lost its mojo.