Discovery channel shows join iTunes

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Some Discovery Shows Launch on iTunes
By Anne Becker

Discovery Communications has signed an iTunes deal. It will make 12
series from its suite of cable networks available on the Apple iTunes
store for $1.99 per episode. The series, from the Discovery Channel,
TLC, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, Discovery Health Channel, and
Discovery Kids, are available immediately, along with free audio
podcasts.

videonovels...

Awesome!

Now I can cancel my cable & just download my favorite documentaries.
(Actually I already canceled my cable. $45 a month is just too much.)

Do I need an Ipod to download & watch iTunes?
Or can I just use my PC's VLC player?

Milhouse Van Houten...

You do not need an iPod, which is the important part, though you do need
iTunes (there may be a way to ultimately play them in other players, I don't
know). You will be disappointed in the resolution, however, a far cry from
the glory that is the Discovery channel in HD. I've heard one person
describe Discovery as the very best channel for HD available.

Programming includes Travel Channel’s World’s Best, National Parks
Short Films and Passport to Europe; Discovery Health’s Amazing Babies
and Pregnancy for Dummies; Discovery Kids’ The Shark and Save-Ums;
Discovery’s Mythbusters, Extreme Engineering and Shark Week; and
Animal Planet’s Most Extreme and Breed All About It.

The iTunes deal represents Discovery’s latest efforts to meet growing
industry demand to offer viewers content wherever they want it,
meaning on various digital platforms.

Beginning last month, Discovery became the first TV network to provide
video to web-search Earth, web-search’s free, satellite imagery-based mapping
product. The company will place ads on the site and can add pay
downloads in the future.

The company also launched a subscription-based broadband site for
homework help – Cosmeo – last month, and has begun launching broadband
video sites tied to each of its networks. Discovery Channel Beyond and
Travel Channel Beyond debuted last month.

Just yesterday it announced that it had a deal to supply some
signature PBS series to its service that streams curriculum-based
clips and shows to schools.