I saw some blog post about the Leaked Windows 8 Documents and saw not one mention of Media Center. So i decided to look at the documents myself and found some interesting info that no one else posted.First is DLNA Tuner support

Internet sourced TV

Updated Codec Support

Media Foundation

DLNA and PlayTo and HTML5?

And for all the people over the years that say "Media Center is for Enthusiasts only so Microsoft doesn't care about it" how about this from the Horse's mouth "Why Enthusiasts Matter".

Microsoft said it best, Enthusiasts aren't human and don't drive revenue. 

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Is my work firewall blocking the images or does everybody else not see them?

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I'm seeing th eimages.  Over my head, but seeing them.

Cool stuff. The DLNA tuner support should open the door to supporting the new home gateway concept that the FCC is pushing the cable industry towards as well as RVU.

Interesting stuff. I personally think they are wrong to assume that on-demand Internet TV will replace what exists so quickly. The TV industry and cable industry has invested too much in traditional scheduled programming. That's not to say they can't deliver the same experience via the internet, but (as evident today by the announcement of Hulu Plus), the on-demand experience is still lacking, in terms of selection, HD quality, and timing. For example, I choose to record TV shows using HD Tuners, even though the show is available via the Internet TV Tab in Media Center. And from the consumer side, I still expect the non-enthusiast to see value in the Live TV experience, as well as HD. Hulu-like services will continue to gain steam, but from what I've seen, it will not flat-out replace traditional television any time soon.

Of course, this is all my personal opinion... I don't have a crystal ball.

makryger

Interesting stuff. I personally think they are wrong to assume that on-demand Internet TV will replace what exists so quickly. The TV industry and cable industry has invested too much in traditional scheduled programming.

It's important to note that this only matters if you are attempting to replace a users traditional TV viewing experience.

 I don't think the current TV infrastructure is going away any time soon, but I think Microsoft is doing well to look forward and start supporting emerging technologies.   As long as they keep support for the current ones until they're well and truly dead :-)

 By the time Windows 8 comes out there will probably something new that doesn't exist now as well.

Interesting how different people have different takes on the same information.  I see nothing in these slides that relates to Media Center, except for the note regarding TV delivery moving away from PCs with tuners to Internet delivered TV content.  Unfortunately, that suggests to me the death of Media Center, because there is no need for a PC to be at the center of such content distribution.  All these slides relate to Media Player in Windows 8, a Windows without Media Center, from my perspective,

I really don't understand why eHome is coupled to Windows releases in the first place. They should be combined into the Zune team, and turn the product into Zune Media Center. Give the Metro interface a makeover to match the Zune and Windows Phone interfaces, integrate Zune Marketplace for movie rentals and purchases...then actually promote it, and make it a free download or pair it with the Zune software. There's tons of revenue to be made, because I know I'd probably drop a few dollars on occasional movie rentals if I could (easily) get Zune movies on the HTPC, instead of having to navigate the clumsy Xbox interface.

 

WinPho7 Metro interface looks bland and uninspiring compared to Media Center on Vista/Win7. WMC UI just makes me want to pick up the remote. Metro looks like something a kid threw together. Bah. Microsoft how about a better developer "story" as you like to say, hm? 3rd parties should be able surface subtitle streams from MKVs in a supported manner. MS, while you talking about "industry-standard" formats how about some MKV love? Last I checked CE companies are started to add some level of support. C'mon, MS, lead the pack

RandomRage

I really don't understand why eHome is coupled to Windows releases in the first place. They should be combined into the Zune team, and turn the product into Zune Media Center. Give the Metro interface a makeover to match the Zune and Windows Phone interfaces, integrate Zune Marketplace for movie rentals and purchases...then actually promote it, and make it a free download or pair it with the Zune software. There's tons of revenue to be made, because I know I'd probably drop a few dollars on occasional movie rentals if I could (easily) get Zune movies on the HTPC, instead of having to navigate the clumsy Xbox interface.

 

Have you seen the new kinect xbox interface coming in november?  Looks almost exactly like the media center one now just more "metrofied".  Plus native hulu support via huluplus is coming to the xbox which is a pretty big deal when combined with espn3.

 

 

 

JackLuminous

 

WinPho7 Metro interface looks bland and uninspiring compared to Media Center on Vista/Win7. WMC UI just makes me want to pick up the remote. Metro looks like something a kid threw together. Bah.

I don't get that - they're basically the same. They're all called 'Metro', WMC was just the first implementation of it. The Zune look is bolder and 'chromeless', which is what I'd really like to see adopted into the WMC interface. No more glass outlines around selections. I'd also like to see the '3-D' menu transitions make it to WMC as well. But yeah, those two things and the dark color scheme are all that seperate the Zune and WMC UIs, basically.
I hadn't seen that new xbox dashboard...it does appear Metro-ish, too, doesn't it?