Audio Video News

Monitor Audio is not shy when it comes to boasting about its new flagship series of speakers, hence the opening line of its press release: “The Platinum II range has produced the most musical, accurate, and beautiful loudspeakers Monitor Audio has ever made.”

Starting today, you can preview NBCUniversal’s new streaming comedy channel Seeso for free as part of a web-only free Beta period that runs through January 6.

DirecTV has announced plans to start broadcasting live 4K content in early 2016.

ESPN is tired of being just another channel in someone else’s pay-TV system. Its parent company Disney is considering going direct to consumers with a video streaming service, as HBO is already doing with HBO Now. CEO Bob Iger raised the prospect in a CNBC interview, though he added the move is at least five years away, presumably because of existing contracts with pay-TV providers. Analysts said the service could get consumers to shell out between $21 and $28 a month.

Panasonic has introduced five 4K Ultra HD TVs just in time for the holidays at prices between $800 and $1,500.

Norman C. Pickering, an audio pioneer who refined the phonograph cartridge and founded Pickering & Company in the 1940s, died on November 18 at his home in East Hampton, New York. He was 99.