CNN Pipeline offers four live streaming news feeds, video-on-demand, and video search. Screenshots inside.CNN released today a beta of its new online streaming news service, CNN Pipeline, to a select group of employees. To view screenshots of the application, click here.
The service offers four channels of unique live content, on-demand video news reports, a range of CNN.com and wire stories, and a search feature.
CNN Pipeline can be viewed via a Web browser. PC users can also download a desktop application.
The service is currently in beta and is not yet available to the public. CNN did not disclose the go-live date, although the beta accounts must be activated before November 25th, 2005.
CNN pipeline will be a subscription-based service. CNN has not yet disclosed the monthly fee.
CNN executives were unavailable for comment. A CNN spokesperson stressed that this release of Pipeline was a beta, and that the service's functionality had not been finalized.
The CNN Pipeline desktop application requires Windows 2000+ with or Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installed and 128 MB of RAM.
To run the desktop application, users must also install the Microsoft .NET Framework and use Windows Media Player 9+.
The application supports Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Netscape Navigator 7, Firefox 1 and Mozilla 1.7.
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