Born in New York City but raised on three continents, Mark Henninger is a lifelong audio-visual enthusiast who’s been lucky enough to turn his AV obsession into a career. A keen interest in photography and video fueled a career in digital imaging that spans three decades.
Growing up as a kid in 1970s Athens, Greece was influential. He lived on a block with an indoor movie theater and an outdoor cinema and fell in love with the medium. Years later, in high school, he worked at the Avon Cinema in Providence, RI. A single-screen theater in operation since 1938, that is where he learned all about how to run a movie theater.
Mark is a THX-trained video calibrator with extensive hands-on experience evaluating consumer displays including TVs, projectors, PC monitors, and smartphones. He is a veteran of numerous consumer and trade shows including CES and CEDIA since 2015, as well as many audio shows.
Before becoming an editor at Sound & Vision, Mark led editorial coverage at AVS Forum and Home Theater Review. In 2014, he created the editorial review program for AVS and tackled everything from TVs to projectors to AVRs to speaker system reviews, and launched Home Theater of the Month. More recently, Mark worked with Projector Central as a contributing editor focusing on 4K UST projectors.
A professional photographer and videographer since the 1990s, when he founded and ran a digital imaging firm, Henninger has decades of experience with high-fidelity media capture, production, and playback. He’s worked with HDR, wide color gamut, ultra-high resolution imagery, and hi-res audio long before they became available to consumers.
In addition to professional pursuits, Mark channels his passion for art and media into producing original music, becoming a Level 10 Google Local Guide, and running Audiophiles on a Budget, one of Facebook’s largest audio enthusiast groups.
Today, Mark’s focus is on the convergence of TVs, smartphones, headphones, speakers, soundbars, streaming devices, gaming systems, VR, AR, voice recognition, smart lighting, and anything else that is related to home entertainment experiences. His enthusiasm for gaming spans four decades—dating back to the Atari 2600—and is as strong as ever.