Tag archive: Discovery Channel

Accidents happen, a lesson the crew of “Mythbusters” learned the hard way on Tuesday after one of their experiments resulted in a cannonball blasting clear through a house in Dublin, California, while the family was asleep inside. The accidental wreckage didn't stop there: After the cannonball smashed through the front door, bounced up the stairs, and exited through the wall of a bedroom where three members of the family were… Read More

In the ever growing battle over video streaming content Amazon just gained some more ammunition. Amazon announced on Wednesday that they have signed an agreement to stream content from PBS, both current shows and archived collections. With this deal in place Amazon will have 12,000 streaming titles for its Prime customers, which is more than double the titles the service launched with in February. The new deal will bring all current shows to… Read More

Mentioned yesterday by Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, he stated that television content typically made up between 50 to 60 percent of all content streamed on Netflix at any given time. Sarandos was speaking at the Mipcom conference in Cannes, France with Miramax CEO Mike Lang in a keynote address. Sarandos indicated that when a user watches a movie over Netflix streaming, a recommendation for a television show is made based off… Read More

Sprint is eager to let consumers express their eco-friendliness by buying a new phone…in the form of the Samsung Reclaim, a QWERTY-equipped handset made from 80 percent recyclable materials and featuring a case that's 40 percent bio-plastic made from corn. And, every purchase of a Samsung Reclaim sends $2 to the Nature Conservancy's Adopt an Acre program in support of land conservation. “Sprint is widely recognized… Read More

They’re calling it Facebook Connect, and it might well be the first stage in turning the social networking site into a Web portal. For the moment the number of sites Facebook users can access with their login information is limited to news site Digg, video site Hulu and the Discovery Channel, the BBC reports, but that will certainly grow. Users can also see what their friends have been doing on those other sites. But Facebook is… Read More

Discovery Communications, the parent of the Discovery TV channel, has bought howstuffworks.com, the web site that explains, well, how stuff works. Although no figures were quoted, the Wall Street Journal claimed the deal was worth $250 million. The howstuffworks site, based in Atlanta, debuted in 1998 and has won a number of awards, including Time magazine’s “25 Websites We Can’t Live Without” in 2006. It… Read More

Amazon.com announced today that original programming from the Showtime premium cable network is now available for digital download via Amazon's Unbox online video service. The deal puts programming from Showtime original series Weeds,Sleeper Cell,Dave Chapelle's 'For WhatIt's Worth',Fat Actress,Penn & Teller: BS! and Free for All online for $1.99 per episode. Hit series The L Word is also part of the deal,… Read More

Amazon.com today took the wraps off Amazon Unbox, its new digital video download service for Windows which offers DVD-quality movies and television programs from nearly three dozen studio and network partner. Amazon Unbox makes videos available for either rental or purchase, and operates using Amazon's own Unbox software available only for Windows XP (Macintosh, Linux, and Windows 2000 or earlier need not apply. And you'll… Read More

Discovery Communications, the company behind popular television networks like the Discovery Channel and the Travel Channel, today announced that programming content from their shows would begin being available online via the Apple iTunes Music Store. The cost of this content will, like other programming on iTunes, be $1.99 per episode for viewing on a computer or iPod. Over a dozen series and specials from Discovery Communications'… Read More

Video search engine blinkx, on a tear lately as it indexes more video content, added a big notch in its belt this week as it was announced they would be adding Discovery Networks programming within their search tool. No specific financial terms of the deal, if any, were announced. These latest video search indexes, said blinkx, cover programming from Discovery's various networks, including Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Travel… Read More

Discovery Communications, the company behind cable networks like the Discovery Channel and Travel Channel, yesterday announced it was extending its broadband reach with the unveiling of two broadband only channels. Also announced were plans to make available a mobile version of their content as well as adding some of their videos to Google Earth. Discovery's new broadband channels, said the television programming company, are… Read More

Discovery Communications, the media company behind television networks like the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, today announced a new pay-for online service geared towards kids in grades K-12 and the homework they must do. Dubbed Cosmeo, this new offering is broadband focused. Cosmeo, said Discovery Communications, uses broadband educational videos and other tools to help kids with their studies and is built on the backbone of a… Read More

TVGuide.com today announced they were launching a new video search engine tied into their editorial content. This search engine is powered by Fast Search & Transfer, a provider of search software and solutions. TVGuide.com's new search engine, said parent company Gemstar-TV Guide International, integrates video and other content from Fox; FX; HBO, MTV Networks including MTV, VH1, CMT, Logo and Comedy Central; Showtime Networks;… Read More

The new vacuum cleaner robot by Vorwerk uses a “wireless carpet” to help navigate and move the robot vacuum cleaner to cover every area of your room. According to the Discovery Channel, the robot system uses RFID technology that is physically embedded into your carpet to send information to the vacuum cleaner. The robot then uses that data to record which sections of the room it has visited and where it needs to go to… Read More

The production release is a follow-up to the successful Yahoo! Video Search beta launched in December 2004. Yahoo! Video Search offers comprehensive video search online through its next generationmedia crawling and ranking technology, Yahoo's key content and media relationships, and Media Really Simple Syndication (Media RSS) a self-publishing specification that enables publishers to promoteaudio and video content. This combination enables… Read More