Audio Video News

The LG Smart Security hub was developed with ADT. It includes a 1080p night-vision camera, motion detection, sensors for light, temperature, humidity, and air pressure, and compatibility with Z-Wave and ZigBee home automation standards...

Emotiva Audio is expanding beyond its direct-to-consumer online retailing into traditional A/V specialty retailers and integrators. The benefit to consumers is that you could listen before you buy...

Video Streaming Will Be 85 percent of U.S. Internet traffic and 80 percent outside the U.S. within five years, Cisco projects. Daily viewing on mobile devices has gone from less than an hour a day five years ago to three hours daily now...

Mobile Video Will Surge eight times over by 2019 but is unlikely to choke cellular networks, says Juniper Research. Fifty-nine percent of it is likely to travel via Wi-Fi...

M-Go Ultra HD Streaming with performance-enhancing HDR will make its debut by year-end on Samsung TVs. The non-subscription PPV site from Technicolor and DreamWorks will charge $4 to $6 for a two-day viewing window or $12 to $20 for purchase...

Video Streaming Account Sharing is becoming common, according to Parks Associates. Of the 60 percent of homes with an account, 8 percent use accounts held outside the home—or 22 percent of those 18 to 24...

Hate the Netflix Carousels? The Website’s new user interface is replacing them with something more app-like. You won’t have to use the back button as much...

A Free Streaming News service called NewsOn will make its debut this fall. TV station owners ABC, Cox, Hearst, Media General, and Raycom will offer local newscasts from 112 stations in 84 markets on mobile and selected connected-TV devices...

Apple’s Pay-TV Service is delaying launch because local broadcasters aren’t signing up. The service would offer their live feeds nationwide for $30 to $40 per month...

Apple’s TV-Making Plan was spiked because designers couldn’t come up with compelling enough features, reports The Wall Street Journal. We suspect the TV business’s cutthroat pricing and slim margins were also factors...

The Lenovo Cast plugs into an HDMI jack to deliver 1080p video, audio, games, and pictures from DLNA- or Miracast-compatible phones and tablets. Priced competitively at $49...

Comcast’s X1 Platform now includes a Restart Notification. Press the Info button to learn more about a program in progress, then hit Restart to see it from the beginning...

HBO Go and Showtime didn’t work on Amazon Fire TV and the Fire TV Stick for Comcast subscribers—until now. PlayStation 3 and 4 users are still out in the cold...

Comcast and Nextdoor, a social networking platform, are teaming up to offer “concierge” service to answer questions about the cable system’s products, outages, offers, and events. It will not offer tech support...

Digital TV will penetrate 97.6 percent of world TV households by 2020, up from 67.2 in 2014, forecasts Digital TV Research. The number of all-digital countries will rise from 17 to 93, and 124 will be more than 90 percent digital...

Channel Sharing may allow some broadcasters to survive after they relinquish spectrum in the FCC’s upcoming auction. They’ll be allowed to strike sharing deals before or after the auction...

Windows 10 Is Getting Dolby Audio and Dolby Digital Plus compatibility. The former enhances audio from small speakers, and the latter is a refined (better than Dolby Digital) lossy surround codec...

DTS Headphone:X is being built into 40 Samsung TV models, having already reached Blu-ray players and game consoles. It plays 5.1 content in 5.1 over Bluetooth headphones and is also said to improve stereo...

TV Maker Element Electronics is branching out into soundbars with the Element 2.0 ($59). An Element 2.1, with wireless subwoofer, will follow...

Ring’s Wi-Fi Video Doorbell ($199) tells your smartphone when someone is ringing the “bell,” displaying a video image of the caller. It mates with the Ring Chime ($20), which plugs into any power outlet...

LG’s Magnetically Attachable OLED display is a mere 55-inch prototype. But its 27-inch LG 27MU67 UHD gaming monitor is here and now, with a four-screen split mode, in-plane switching, AMD FreeSync to stop tearing and stuttering, and HDCP 2.2 DRM...

The First DTS:X Blu-ray release is Ex Machina from Lionsgate. Existing Blu-ray players pass the bitstream to DTS:X receivers and surround processors...

Sling Latino offers the Paquete Total package, with 22 live channels, for $12/month. Paquete Esencial offers 16 channels for $7/month...