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.
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Discovery Programming Heads to iTunes
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’ various networks will be initially available, said the company. These programming choices will include World’s Best Travel Series, National Parks Short Films and Passport to Europe from the Travel Channel; Amazing Babies and Pregnancy for Dummies from Discovery Health; Kenny The Shark and Save-Ums from Discovery Kids; MythBusters, Extreme Engineering and Shark Week from Discovery Channel; and Most Extreme and Breed All About It from Animal Planet.
blinkx Adds Discovery Networks Programming
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 Channel, Discovery Health Channel, Discovery Kids Channel, The Science Channel, Discovery Times Channel, the Military Channel, Discovery Home, FitTV, Discovery En Espanol and Discovery HD Theater. Blinx search works by using voice recognition technology to understand video word for word. Users can reportedly search for exactly what they are looking for to the exact word within a video clip.
Discovery Greatly Widens Offerings
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.
TVGuide.com Updates Search Engine
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; Discovery Networks, including Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, Discovery Health Channel and Fit TV; TV Guide Channel and National Geographic Channel. It will appear along with TV Guide’s database of listings, photos, show and episode descriptions, news, reviews, ratings, celebrity information, podcasts, TV Guide magazine covers, and other information.
Yahoo! Video Search Goes Live
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 consumers to find and view any type of online video from news footage to movie trailers to television clips as well as independently produced video.
“Yahoo! Video Search provides consumers with a comprehensive source for video on the Web,” said John Thrall, head of media search engineering, Yahoo! Search. “Our powerful media crawling, extraction, and ranking technology as well as our broad relationships with content partners enable Yahoo! Video Search to provide users with the leading online video search experience.”
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