

Many people have adopted the "cord cutting" phenomenon and dumped their TV subscriptions in favor of internet-based subscriptions like Netflix or they resort to piracy since almost anything is readily available on the internet.Įarlier, we covered previously how the Windows Media Center issue can be partially solved in Windows 10 by using alternative apps as mentioned here: " Windows Media Center for Windows 10 – here is a solution". The reason it was discontinued was very low usage. Since there is nothing else from Microsoft that is a substitute for the TV functionality, the loss of Media Center came as a shock to many home theatre PC (HTPC) enthusiasts.


It was often misunderstood for simply being a fullscreen media player. Many users do not even know that the primary purpose of Media Center was watching and recording TV when TV tuner hardware was present in your computer.
