Apple today added TV shows from TLC, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, Discovery Health Channel and Discovery Kids to their increasingly misnamed iTunes Music Store. With the addition of more than a dozen series and specials from Discovery, iTunes now offers even more video content to download for $1.99 per episode for viewing on a computer or iPod. Discovery will also offer vignettes through the free podcasting feature on iTunes. These will include behind the scenes footage from Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch and parenting and family relationship tips from TLC’s Shalom in the Home.
“Now, new possibilities are opened for people who want to use Discovery’s high-quality knowledge-rich content on the go, while we also promote Discovery’s television networks,” said Don Baer, Senior Executive Vice President, Strategy & Development, Discovery Communications, in the press release. “Wherever they are and whenever they want, consumers can use the iPod to learn and be entertained with Discovery’s content about people, places, cultures, science, health and much more.”
“We’re thrilled to bring video programming from Discovery Communications to the iTunes Music Store,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes in a statement. “Customers can now choose from a wide range of great video content from Discovery’s family of networks.”
The new additions (click show name to launch iTunes Store to view more info):
Animal Planet: Animal Planet is the only television network dedicated exclusively to connection between humans and animals. The network brings together people of all ages by tapping into a fundamental fascination with animals through an array of fresh programming that includes humor, competition, drama, and spectacles from the animal kingdon.
• Breed All About It: Each week Breed All About It presents an entertaining and informative portrait of a select breed and the people who love them. From tiny pugs to sleek Doberman pinschers, Breed All About It covers the canine spectrum, providing viewers with information on each breed’s history and featuring fun segments on the pets and their owners.
• The Most Extreme: The Most extreme uncovers how the best (and worst) of the human world stack up against the animal kingdom, revealing unbelievable, little-known facts about creatures great and small. Join in the excitement as The Most extreme counts dwn the fastest, strongest, and smartest animals. This eye-popping series is full of unlikely candidates for the world’s most outrageous titles and facts on why human beings don;t quite make the cut.
Discovery Channel: Discovery Channel is a premier provider of real-world entertainment, offering a signature mix of compelling programming and vivid cinematography. Whether it’s the awe-inspiriing projects on Extreme Engineering, or the fun, but truth-seeking experiments of MythBusters, or the rich and rewarding science and natural history specials that have come to characterize the brand, Discovery Channel has built a reputation for quality. And now you can enjoy its programs on Apple’s iTunes.
• MythBusters: Each episode, the MythBusters, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, two special effects experts with over 30 t=years experience bwteen them, methodically set out to bust three urban legends. And they don’t just explain if something’s true or false: through trial and error, they demonstrate it. Sometimes they crash things; sometimes they blow things up – all in the name of science.
• Extreme Engineering: Extreme Engineering exposes the challenges of designing and building the largest and most outrageous and awe-inspiring projects ever conceived. No project is too large or complex. Watch computer animations of amazing structures taking shape, and follow the efforts of engineers and scientists taking on what – to most of us – would seem impossible.
• Shark Week: Discovery Channel’s Shark Week exposes you to the incredible truths about sharks as perfect predatory machines. Understand more about the world’s deadliest marine hunters and why they’ve survived for millions of years. Shark Week tells you everything you want to know about sharks and their world.
Discovery Health Channel: Discovery Health Channel takes you inside the fascinating and informative world of cutting-edge medicine and health to experience compelling, real-life stories of medical breakthroughs and human triumphs. Discovery Health Channel is Real Life. medicine. Miracles.
• Amazing Babies: Learn about women who give birth under extraordinary circumstances, whether it’s in a snowstorm or frantically racing down a rural highway to get to a hospital before a premature baby is born. These stories are poignant, heartbreaking, uplifting, and deeply moving.
• Pregnancy for Dummies: Come along for an entertaining and informative journey through the nine months of pregnancy. Based on the best-selling book by Dr. Joanne Stone, Pregnancy for Dummies is packed with common sense, medical advice, and humor.
Discovery Kids: Discovery Kids gives kids that indescribably satisfying feeling they crave from the act of discovery. In every interaction with kids, Discovery Kids delivers the mind-blowing, self-affirming, heart-pounding, addictive, head-to-toe satisfaction that comes from the rush of discovery. Discovery Kids. Feel the rush! Now on iTunes.
• Kenny The Shark: Talks about a real “fish out of water” story! Kenny is a tiger shark that has been adopted by a precocious 10-year-old named Kat and her family. Kenny tries to manage his natural shark instincts in everyday situations and simply behave like any normal household pet.
• The Save-Ums: What’s cute, small and just the right size for action? The Save-Ums! Sworn to help others, the Save-Ums are pint-sized heroes whose mission is to save all creatures – big or small – who need a helping hand.
Travel Channel: Travel Channel is the network that feeds the passion for travel and enrichment through experiences. Only Travel Channel offers journeys that are explorations of possibilities, escapes from the norm, and conections to moments that expand horizons and enrich lives.
• Passport to Europe: Bonjour. Guttentag. Hola. Ciao. Hello, Eurpor – here comes Samantha Brown! With her bags packed and passport in hand, travel expert Samantha Brown journeys throughout Europe. During her adventures, Samantha offers practical travel tips and introduces us to an “A-list” of experts who’ll share the best their city has to offer Americans traveling abroad.
• World’s Best: World’s Best features the best the world has to offer you. The Travel Channel has scoured the gloce in search if unparalleled travel adventures, uncovering the planet’s best beaches, the secrets of the Southwest, the marvels of the West, and more. Now it’s your chance to experience a journey that’s sure to change your life.
• America’s National Parks: The specially made videos on America’s Parks are your chance to get key information about some of the country’s most stunning scenic vistas, form how these spectacular places were formed to the wildlife you can expect to see there. Yellowstone and Everglades National Parks are just some of the beautiful sites featured.
Click to launch Apple’s iTunes Store.
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thats fantastic!!! …. and when do we get something for the uk store? or do i have to move to the states just for the itunes content?
Can’t you see the program(me)s on iTunes in the UK that we see here?
You can of course go to versiontracker etc.. Don’t mind me, I’m just an old fart. 73 and going fast.
Great selections. I love TDC.
Still not buying until the res is higher though.
Give me Samantha Brown and those nice hips of hers anyday….
Great to see more and more video content, but give me the “true video” iPod to watch it on.
AWESOME. Apple is making this happen. I love it.
“their increasingly misnamed iTunes Music Store. “
Tower Records is also misnamed, oh well, no one cares.
“Give me Samantha Brown and those nice hips of hers anyday….”
I’ll take all of her :^P
I highly recommend that “Pregnancy for Dummies” special for any expecting parents, especially if it’s your first.
TOP GEAR
TOP GEAR
TOP GEAR
DAMNIT! When in the hell can we colonists get to see the proper Queen’s version of Top Gear without having to wait forever?!?!
I’m pretty sure that there is not a show on that has ever existed with cinematography or as honest hosts as Top Gear. The camera work on that show has got to be some of the best i’ve seen TV or in film… its so enticing and so energetic, but then can go dramatic and subtle in a moment’s notice when it suits the show.
brilliant!
Mythbusters? Awesome! Awesome to the max!!! Now, I just want to see Dirty Jobs added!!!
Mythbusters? Woo-hoo! Kari Byron for the win!
Can you get Top gear over there then? It certainly is a fantastic show these days no matter how much I hate Jeremy Clarkson.
Actually the Discovery deal may well bode well for BBC programming to become available as so much of the nature stuff is tied in with Discovery these days. I think the main problem is the cost structure which presently will probably conflict with its charter, at least for shows sold in the UK.
For the record, I do agree: “Top Gear” is simply one of the best shows on TV today. Even non-car geeks like it. The new season (started last week) is just great.
And it’s awesome to see the iTunes video store doing so well. Hats off to Apple for making it all work.
Anyway, my real point is this: I really want to buy videos from iTunes. I do. Hey, I already buy all my music from iTunes. But… when the hell will they increase the quality of the video?!? I have purchased one video from iTunes (a “Desperate Housewives” episode) and was appalled when I displayed it (via Mac mini) on my 42″ plasma. It’s worse than VHS! I won’t buy another iTunes video until the quality is better.
OK, so I don’t necessarily expect full HD quality, with all the HDCP mess that might entail, although that would certainly be nice. But for God’s sake, give users an option for something that’s at least watchable on a normal TV, even at a small price premium!
If I’d pay $1.99 for a video (which I did), I’d pay $2.25-2.50 for a higher quality version. I don’t watch this stuff on an iPod, but I’d happily pay for the convenience (read: not messing around in newsgroups/Torrents) to watch it on my big TV. Come on, Apple: 480p isn’t that difficult!
MW = “simply,” as in “Simply increase the video quality, and I’ll buy a ton of this stuff.”
Wow! Not too long ago all we had to choose from was “Lost”, “Desperate Housewives”, “That’s So Raven”…
Peace.
From: Turd Ferguson
Give me Samantha Brown and those nice hips of hers anyday….
You noticed that too, huh. Yeah, she sure has a nice ‘saddle’.