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Sunday, May 6, 2012

Windows 8 DVD Playback Will Require Extra Media Center Pack

Posted by Richard Chao in "Digital Home News" @ 07:00 PM

http://pureinfotech.com/2012/05/04/...ia-center-pack/

"Here is something interesting, you may already know that Microsoft plans to sell Windows Media Center as a separate paid pack, but now the company has just revealed that Windows 8 will also stop the support for DVD playback."

If you want to watch DVD movies on your Windows 8 computer in the future, you will have to get the Media Center Pack or the Windows 8 Pro Pack. The basic consumer version of Windows 8 will not include the ability to playback DVD movies. Microsoft's reasoning behind the omission is that more and more consumers are getting content from streaming sources so DVD playback is no longer on the top of the required capabilities list. No word on the pricing of the Media Center Pack yet.


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