21. The system of claim 12 wherein the search engine is operative to retrieve the at least one of captions, subtitles, and the one or more related items of web content corresponding to the one or more text segments of video content using one or more items of metadata associated with the digital video content.
12. A system for retrieving web content relating to one or more items of video content maintained on a storage media item, the system comprising: a content acquisition module operative to retrieve the digital video content maintained on the storage media item; an extraction module operative to: extract at least one of caption and subtitle content associated with the one or more items of digital video content, segment the extracted at least one of caption and subtitle content into one or more text segments, and generate a description characterizing the video content based on the one or more text segments; and a search engine operative to: receive a query for one or more items of the digital video content from a user, retrieve the description and at least one text segment based on the query, retrieve one or more related items of web content corresponding to the at least one text segment, and provide the one or more related items of web content and the video content with the description and the at least one text segment to the user.