DVD did come out in March of 1997. I followed it religiously and was invited by Good Guys to their unvieling party in March. There still was no actual DVDs out at the time, so I waited a week to buy a player when Warner came out with their first batch of titles. Unless you somehow got a DVD player through some off market dealer in 1996, they were not available with any movies to play on them until March 1997. So do not discredit the article with false information.