I have a Hauppauge, HVR-2250 card. (dual NTSC and dual clear QAM) My signal is from the cable company, regular analog and clear QAM. I had been running Windows 7 Media Center and the clear QAM channels were in high definition. When I changed to Windows 8 (with a fresh install of Win 8), the Clear...

Anyone more technically gifted than me know if this is possible?
I was thinking this would be the perfect way to create tiles on the start screen therefore not needing to launch mediacenter directly.(I've already changed remote GB to go to start)

This is the kind of thing I had in mind.....

Hi

Not sure what they are calling it these days but the Metro photo app in Windows 8, I can't get any of my photos to show up in the damm thing.

I have added via explorer my photos folder on my WHS in to the Windows 8 photo library. I can also now see these photos that are on the WHS in WMP12...

Hi all,

I have just setup my new Windows 8 Pro based HTPC/Server, and all is working great, except the fact that I have over a thousand channels from my DVB-S2 and DVB-T tuners in the channel guide, and I will probably only watch 20 of these channels.

I am based in Europe, and I receive...

So.. I have a Harmony remote that I have been using with Win 7 WMC. Upgraded to Win 8 recently. Seems to be working fine. Just wondering if anyone has some ideas on mapping keys or devices to use with Harmony remotes to make it easier to do more on the remote, rather than pulling out a keyboard....

I wonder if this will enable ceton to continue with the Q?

Hi

I tried to install Media Center Studio on Windows 8 but every time I launched the application it just bombed out and crashed. Anyone got it working?

Looks like there is a new version of MCE Toolbox Reset coming out very soon that supports Windows 8. Not sure If this is a free lite version or...

Interestingly I have found no information about this sort of setup:

Windows 8 x86 Tablet with WMC connected to an HDTV via WIDI (Intel Wireless Display)

Essentially the tablet would be like a remote to watch Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and OTA DVR via HD HomeRun tuner.

Now tell me that wouldnt...

We just bought a brand new AiO computer for the kitchen, it's replacing an underpowered netbook that sets next to a small TV. Too much clutter, and the netbook is horrible. My hope is that this new computer can pull double duty, and replace the TV as well. I have a AverTV Hybrid Max USB tuner.

The...

I'm sure you guy's heard that Sinofsky resigned from Microsoft. His successor is said to have a much more integrationist approach so I'm hopeful she'll bring WMC back into the fold in the upcoming Windows 8 update in 2013 or Windows 9.
Personally I think Sinofsky's approach was very shortsighted,...

Hello all. I'm having a very strange issue.

I've had the same issue with Windows 7, and Windows 8 Media Center. I can play Blu-Ray's fine (Total Media Theater 5), and I can play .mkv's just fine through Media Browser / WMC. Hulu works fine.

However, when I play videos in Netflix, it starts out...

Hi,

I'm running windows 8 on my workstation since august and got the media center pack yesterday. I would like to upgrade my HTPC(it's running windows 7 currently) but I've seen that the option to boot straight into windows media center is gone in windows 8. Is there any way to let my HTPC still...

Has anyone using the InfiniTV moved up to Windows 8? If so, any problems?
I got what I'm sure every Ceton owner got which was an email suggesting InfiniTV users wait until they can do some testing. I'm going to wait about a week as I just don't have time and plan a clean install but would love to...

Sigh, windows 7 was working soooo lovely with no problems....

Hopefully the good people of TGB can help me out here.

I'm getting the below error message every time I try to watch Live TV. Try as I might I cant shift this error message. TV tuner is supported, worked just fine in windows 7 etc...

Hi

God only knows why but I decided to install Windows 8 Pro with MCE on to my laptop, biggest problem is the laptop is now randomly freezing and locking up solid and I have to hard reset the bloody thing. Hope I can get to the bottom or this of Windows 7 will be going back on soon.

Anyways...

I have my OS on 1 partition and all my programs and data on another. Since I use the PC mostly for Media Center recording and playback, there's really nothing I need and can start fresh but was curious.....if I do the upgrade, will this cause a problem with my data and programs on a different...

I've tried to run the commercial skipping tricks in Windows 8 and it's not working. Seems DVRMSToolbox is not compatible as it keeps shutting down though file watcher seems to be running.
Anyone have any luck or other suggestions to use?

I had this problem in Windows 7 but the latest updates fixed it. Now I am using Win 8 I am back to the same problem. When I resume from sleep I have to wait a minute or so before I can begin using the remote. Anyone having this problem?

I am using a Harmony remote.

Thought this might be of some interest. Robert heron of tekzilla talks about his experience installing win 8 and WMC with his ceton tuner. The segment is
windows 8 Media center Impressions

I was thinking about upgrading HTPC to win 8 because the metro interface might be nice on an HDTV. I was reading that the icons are hard to read on the HDTV as it does not scale if you increase the DPI. Is that the case? Does metro really suck on a 1080P HDTV?

Blimey its speedy even on my makeshift laptop OS drive ... AND the indexing on music is RAPID. The music menu was my major bugbear in vista/7mc, its virtually instant now - good.
Skype is smashing thru the metro too.
All in all £25 well spent for me, all of windows7 with the added benefit of the...

I have the USB 950Q tuner and it is not working after upgrade.

I have downloaded the drivers, and it worked perfect before the upgrade on win 7 MC.

The device is showing fine under devices but win 8 MC can not recognize any tuners installed.

any ideas or help?

thanks

Should I need to contact my cable company if I'm just updating to Windows 8 Media Center if my card was working fine in Windows 7?
I'm not getting any cable card channels and the diagnostic tool doesn't show a check mark next to cablecard entitlement.

So it seems using the InfiniTV in Windows 8 is hit or miss. Some say it works, others no.
For me, only my analog tuner works, no SD or HD. Card is paired correctly and was working in Windows 7. I did a clean install.
Setup goes fine and picks up everything ok. I get a NO TV Signal message.
However,...

Hiya all, I just managed to get Windows 8 pro installed and added the Media Centre addon successfully, However, live TV appears to have some issues. At first I had an issue where no channels would play; missing codec error. A simple reboot fixed that. However now I have sound issues on HD...

Hello!

When I ran Windows 7 and Media Center with the Extender to the XBOX, I was able to play ALL of my ZunePass music.

Since getting the Media Center Add On for Windows 8, I've not been able to play ZunePass/XBOX Music songs and albums. Did something change? Any suggestions?

Thanks!
Brian

What happens when you Install Win8 on a Win7 PC? Are all the scheduled recordings, guide settings, extender configs, etc. lost? For example if I have 4 360s acting as extenders does all that have to be re-setup once I update the Win7 box to Win8 (after adding the MC pack)? Or is all of that config...

Windows 8, with the tiles interface, looks perfect for a large TV and remote control. I have been trying to get my Mediagate IR Media Center remote working with Windows 8. In the past, on Windows 7, I've used EventGhost to map all the buttons to keyboard presses, but it seems like Windows 8 it...

I'm trying to understand Microsoft's latest convoluted scheme. I have MSDN, and Windows 8 has been available to download for a couple of months. The Windows 8 Pro VL is not available to me. Windows 8 Enterprise is. My understanding is that Pro is necessary to download Media Center, but you first...

Can I install W8 on my laptop, apply for WMC key and once I receive it then install W8 on my Media Center PC, download WMC plug in and use the key for the Media Center PC instead?

Basically want to install W8 on my Media PC but want to avoid the possible downtime of waiting for the email from MS...

Hi all, first time poster so please be gentle!! I have a Dell Inspiron One 2310 that I've been using as a media center with the bundled RC260 remote and Windows 7 for quite a while and its been great! I just upgraded to Windows 8 and the media center pack and the remote no longer works!

I have...

Hi, which tuners are folks using with Windows 8 Media Center 64-bit edition? I was thinking of getting a Hauppauge HVR-2210.

i keep seeing that blu ray playback is/was part of the media center pack, i have media center installed and yet no blu ray support. i can play dvd though...

Interesting caveat in the mailshot from Ceton this evening:

Network Tuner Support: The InfiniTV network tuner bridging feature will not be available in Windows 8. If you use network tuners you should not upgrade.

I wonder what changed there? I presume it won't have the same impact on SD users.

When accessed directly, that is.

I installed my old 2100 tonight, just to see if the reports are true.

Initially, I had an error configuring the extender, but after trying again, it configured it and the HTPC said that it synced the media library and connected to the extender.

Unfortunately, the...

HI

In Windows 7 i had a task that start up media center every morning and would play my favorite music.
It doesnt seems to work in Windows 8. Does the switch have changes in Windows 8 or they no longer work ?

This is what work in Windows 7 %windir%\ehome\ehshell.exe /nostartupanimation...

I have a grand vision for Windows 8 on my HTPC. I envision a start screen with a tile for Media Center and then a tile for apps that have media content.

I currently have the RTM on a partition on my laptop and so I have been watching for apps that would be good for this type of set up such as...

I am tech savvy for the most part...but this one is stumping me.

All machines are Win7 currently, with exception of test computer Win8 upgrade. I have a 2tb HDD in an USB external enclosure attached to my ASUS RT-56U router. Simply plug and play for Windows 7. Recognized on all computers as a...

I was playing around with Hyper-V in the Wndows 8 preview yesterday - I took a harddrive from an XP machine that I had retired 3 years ago off the shelf, plugged it into a USB adabter and used Disk2VHD to create a disk image. Once it was created, I made a new VM and connected it to the VHD, and it...

Amazon is offering a $30 promotional credit if you order Windows 8 Pro for $69.99 before October 20th. That means that you can get the physical disc for essentially the same price as the digital download (assuming you expect to spend at least $30 on Christmas presents anyway :-))

I think I'll...

I am building myself a new home server based on Windows 8 Pro (RTM). While I have been mostly pleased with my WHS (2003) it has a couple of disadvantages that prey on my peace of mind.

My Acer H340 WHS box has 4 hot-swap bays, an eSATA port on the back, and a number of USB 2.0 ports. The...

I find WMC in Windows 8 to be a big improvement over Windows 7, especially when used with Xbox 360 extenders.

(For a feature that supposedly isn't being actively developed , it's a big step forward in terms of performance--which makes it worth it to me to upgrade. I suspect many of the...

on the right-hand side of the page in this link ----

there is a sneak peak video of the niveus app running on a Surface tablet.

Looks extremely interesting. Also I found a video there of an imbedded system running the niveus software that was retrieving programming from a directv receiver....

Well FREE for a limited time if you Upgrade!..
You can read more here...
Does this make you more likely to upgrade?
I'm still on the fence..
newfiend~

I have wtv files that I recorded on my Windows 7 PC. When I try playing them on a laptop I upgraded to Windows 8 RP I get a cannot play video error in Media Center. It says that the file type is not recognized and that the codec is missing. Why would Microsoft not have a codec installed for their...

Hello,

Just installed the Windows 8 Pro RTM within a virtual environment before I upgrade my main HTPC, but I'm having problems actually getting Media Center, when I go through the Add Features to Windows 8 and click I want to buy a product key online , I get the error: An error occurred. Close...

I don't know if this has been discussed already, but I just noticed that Windows 8 finally handles photo exif orientation properly (displays thumbnails and photos rotated properly). That's one bug fixed...

For anyone ready to play with Windows 8, you might want to create/restore backup images as you begin to experiment.

The built in Windows 8 image backup is not really all that flexible as you know. I read this article today that says Paragon just released a Windows 8 image/backup tool. (free)...

Hey all, thought i would let you know that Windows 8 is now available on Technet for those of you who have technet.

Cliffey

My Channel Logos Version 2.30 now available!

MCL now works with Windows 8!!!
For those using Windows 8, I’ve got some good news, and some bad news. The good news is that you are now able to install MCL in Windows 8, and get all your logos into the guide (previously not possible with older...

The title says it all, folks -- Microsoft's newest operating system will hit the masses starting on October 26th, nearly three years to the day after the launch of Windows 7. Just days after the company previewed Office 2013, we're now told that Steven Sinofsky has affirmed the date at MS's annual...

Windows 8 users may not have the option to buy a full retail copy of the operating system when it launches this October.

Earlier this week I installed the Windows 8 Release Preview on my PC. Before the install I had no problems streaming x264 video from my PC to my Xbox 360 via WMC. After the install, all of my x264 files still play perfectly fine on my PC, but won’t play on my Xbox. At first I thought I lost the...

Microsoft announced a promotion to purchase a Win 8 upgrade for 39.99 and it will include WMC. Would you upgrade?

We set out to make it as easy as possible for everyone to upgrade to Windows 8. Starting at general availability, if your PC is running Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 you will...

First off, no I'm not interested in your opinions of Win8 I'm just looking for facts. As a desktop/tablet OS I love it, I use it, done. However I have not as of yet switched my Media Center to it. I'd like to know what the growing pains are for that, and also when Win8 properly ships whether or not...

I think there is a future for the home media center. It is just not out there yet. I have an idea and I want the community's opinion on it.

First, some background and such:

While I cannot say I have ever been a huge fan of MS, Windows Media Center has certainly impressed me. I guess I am a...

TV Tuner and WMC Remote Control and Receiver no longer included in Windows Hardware Certification

Story at:

What does this mean for the future of Media Center?

I recently rebuilt my MediaCenter from the ground up, total reinstall of Windows.
Now when I go into MyVideos I see an entry for D:\. Yet If I use the Manage Library option there is no way to remove D:\.
I see the same thing in MyPictures. Any ideas how to remove it?

Ok so my OCZ Vertex 2 SSD died, decided to create a usb stick to install W8 that way I could play with it a bit more..
full install only 15GB!! w7 was at least 30, haven't had time to rummage and see wot's missing but half the size is pretty impressive.
Oh and I said I liked it didn't I??
I guess...

Hi all. Windows 8 media center works great... except I can't get any m2ts movies to play (any movies at all actually) on xbox360s.

Worked fine with exactly the same settings with Windows 7.

Any ideas?

Finally gave the Win8 CP a try.

I -REALLY- like it. Regardless of changes to WMC, I will be upgrading to this OS.

I've been using WP7 for 6/mo now, and Win8 is mostly the same experience. Most of my desktop time at home is the same as what I do at work daily on my WP7 phone; email, calendar,...

The version of WMC in the Windows 8 Release Preview has had two startup options removed :

- Start WMC when Windows starts
- Always keep WMC on top

I would have thought that these were 'must-haves' for dedicated HTPCs, but apparently Microsoft disagrees .

Good job, Microsoft. I just spent the last hour troubleshooting why my W8 test machine wasn't downloading anything from a microsoft server. It wouldnt update the time, it wouldn't check smartscreen to verify downloads, it wouldn't download drivers, it wouldn't install playready and it wouldn't...

Since it seems the version of WMC to be delivered with Windows 8 will have little or no enhancements over 7MC, I got a bit nostalgic. I started to fantasize aout what might have been, and what functionality I would have paid for in 8MC. Here's my list in no special order-- what do you think I...

For those planning on buying a new PC soon, if you were worried about the cost of upgrading to W8, fear not. The upgrade cost from W7 to W8 Pro is going to be a mere $15 on newly purchased PCs. Two things are interesting here- 1) the price is significantly lower than the Vista to 7 upgrade path...

i installed win8 CP on a separate drive a couple weeks ago, and found that there was no guide info in media center.

last night, re-installed on a partition to have a dual-boot system, and now i have an updated guide. i noticed some other comments on the board of people saying they didn't have...

I was just reading up that the license cost of blu-ray is $4.50 per player. And the cost for DVD player is $2.00. I'm also hearing a lot of people refusing to pay for Media Center if they did not change anything about the system. So my question is, knowing the licensing costs, would the addition of...

Seems strange that after about 10 years of use that my favorite bit of software that I thought originally would 'take over' the world is now almost a nuisance for microsoft.

I think ' Third Parties will create Metro App equivalents to the various parts of MC '. I personally think a remote friendly...

What version of Windows Media Center will be included in Windows 8?
The version of Media Center included in Windows 8 is what we shipped in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. It is much consistent with what shipped in Windows 7.

I am depressed. MS wants us to pay for WMC but is the same as Win7.

Looks like you can upgrade to WMC8from regular windows 8 by just upgrading to pro. The big question is will MC8 have any new features
-Metro App
-Streaming Copy Once to other devices on the network
-Fix Bugs

If not Ceton Q and Echo looks like MC FUTURE>

More Info Here:

newfiend~

Anyone else have an issue connecting extenders? I have two (DMA2200's) and both get stuck on 'connecting to PC...' and end up with a black screen

Good thing or bad thing? Thoughts?

Well, as a long time Windows and Media Center CANADIAN user, I'd thought I'd share my frustration and strategy moving forward:

1. In Canada, we can't get a Netflix add-on to Media Center. I have no idea why, since the service is available on my Samsung TV, iPhone, and my three Apple TV's.
2. In...

This should be good for us lot...

A couple cool videos to watch how Windows 8 works..

newfiend~

Anyone have any view on whether tablets will get Win8MC? If so will we see a form of Softsled to allow you to view LiveTV on your tablet - this is one way of one-upping Apple!

OK so it is not an authortive source, but lets hope....

Media Centre This is going back into Windows 8, Microsoft say but wasn’t ready in time for the Developer Preview. We can fully expect this to get a very significant interface overhaul to make it look and operate much more like the next...

See here:

Confirming what had already been confirmed. However, it will be fascinating to see if there have been any changes to it.

Could this be the future? I see a music pivot and a videos tile, can't read the rest.

Well.. lets face it this topic was going to popup at some point.

• IPTV - After using boxee for a while I would like to see integration of IPTV apps, iPlayer, 4oD, revision, hdnation tv etc etc.

• FLAC support - I know i can play them but I want to tag them also.

• New UI - Metro Style

I figure everyone will not want to kill a machine or modify an existing install to run the Win8 Dev Preview. I've installed to a VHD and will be posting some info and impressions over the next couple days.

The install...it's very similar to Win7 as you would expect. The following are what you are...

Well, it's got this going for it:

Man that thing must be going off an SSD, but even so, the hybrid boot is impressive.

For all those who sleep their MCPC, this should be interesting.

Just read the following link:

In it, it says Win 8 will come with Hyper V for all. I remember reading about hyper v and the potential for it as well as it's ability to mimic the desktop with very smooth graphics and sound....

So the ultimate question is, with this could a low power machine with...

This is some good news!

Let's not beat around the bush people. Dolby gone. Media Center shuffled off to the embedded team. IPTV focus. The WEC Forum bludgeoning of Media Center enthusiasts. And now we've seen the first evidence that Media Center is not present in the most recent W8 build. Sure, you can just wait and see,...

I really hate to be this guy/join this club, but this is the first piece of news/speculation ever to have me worried about the future of Media Center. In the latest Windows 8 build, the change log includes that Windows Media Center has been removed. If this is the case, what viable options are...

The article provides an email address to Mr. Sinofsky to express your opinions.

A few exciting things in the world of Media Center that have surfaced today. First of all, an early build of Windows 8 has been released, and Yes, Media Center is present in Windows 8!
. This guy is using some weird themes for Media Center, but the basic program is still present, with apparently...