The one big and it is big advantage over set-top boxes or freeview boxes is the amount of storage you can put into a Windows MC. But which one? Someone mentioned elsewhere that a W8.1 bpx was better. I think he/she is right under certain extreme conditions?

My W7 mc grew from 4x2tb to 4x4tb to...

The PC I started with had at some time worked here in the UK but WMC nolonger recognised the tuner and therefore needed to be set up again. So go through the wizard, declining to get the latest setup data ( first time I tried there was not any AND SAID WOULD USE WHAT IT HAD, so do not bother, just...

I love breaking those bulbs! Such a harmless but guilty pleasure.

When I bought my house and installed lights on the front porch, I remember the first time I saw most of the bulbs missing and broken nearby, up to the height of one or more unknown kids. Rather than getting mad, I thought Now it is...

OK, this will cement my move from WMC to Tivo.

I like my automatic commercial skip. It's not 100% perfect, but I really like it. Tivo does hand-built commercial markers, by humans; therefore, they are 100% accurate. If the interface lets me say, just do it, then superb.

Yes, it's for only a...

After 12+ years of WMC, it's time to move on. With the operating system, WMC program itself, extenders and even the Harmony remotes falling out of support, the writing is on the wall. It's been a good run and seeing how good WMC remains TODAY, it makes you wonder what Microsoft could have done with...

I've been using Media Center since the early days when it was on XP all the way up to Windows 8. Even today it has by far IMO the best DVR interface but, with the increasing Cable TV costs I just can justify spending what we are on Cable TV and going to make the switch to YouTube TV. By switching I...

Have you ever wondered about changes over time to your Movie, TV Show, or Music library? I've given it a thought or two over the years and so did Rickt1962.

That conversation triggered my OCD and turned into a little utility I call Library Time Machine . I couldn't stop at the simple version. I...

Hey there.

Not sure if this is possible, but I am looking for a way to see missed recordings.

Example: If I have a program scheduled to record today from 3:00pm - 3:30pm, but my computer is off for whatever reason from 1:00pm to 5:00PM, it misses the recording, but doesn't tell me anywhere that I...

So after 7 years of WMC my access to the guide went away April 2 and I couldn't get it back; same with everyone? So if this is true and we are done why not trade movies and shows as collectively we have thousands and thousands of great shows?

RRG

As I changed to a GE730 video card I checked some of the HTPC vitals. Noticed than when playing bluray that the CPU is ~50% loaded.
Granted my system is getting old. I use a Intel Core2 Duo E7500 Wolfdale Dual-Core 2.93 GHz CPU with the Ge730 GPU. PowerDVD 15.
Playing recorded HD is max 10% CPU....

Hello,
Been with WMC since XP. My Win7 computer is held together with chewing gum, duct tape, and bailing wire. It uses a pair of HDHomeRun Prime 3's (6 tuners in total). I just got set up with EPG123 to deal with the current channel guide problem. But I need to figure out what is next.
I'd been...

Apparently ReplayTV is. I had no idea the community has kept the guide service going so long:

I 3D print lots of custom night lights and custom parts.

I have (3) different LSU national champion night lights to choose from at my site:

Go to shop at the top.
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Thank you TGB and all on here.

I remember recording SD content using SageTV before WMC. Guests were amazed I had recorded shows and could skip commercials. I built my win7 WMC box and it was part of our family for years.

Wife turned on the win7 WMC box at lunch and what popped up was an Windows...

for all running legit 7MC systems running steam / 1080P gaming on the big screen:

chromium support for Windows 7 ends in 18 months. This is when steam will not be able to support Win 7, so this is The End for me...

Why has win 10 MCE / 10MC not taken off? lack of tuner support?

Slingbox...

That's because they do it on AWS servers in the cloud.

And not only does Tablo want your money, you must also have sufficient internet connectivity and data availability to send the thumbnails of your shows up to the cloud for processing.

Of course, you could just...use your own PC, use WMC for...

I've been seeing a lot of goodbye messages and am inspired to leave one myself. I've been a long-time lurker but rarely posted here. The info on these forums has been invaluable in helping me save lots of money over the last 8 years by not having to rent cable boxes from Verizon. I want to thank...

Apparently the holidays are as unfriendly to Tesla car owners as they have been to Rovi guide users the last few years. It looks like they had a burp in their Premium Connectivity access for no real reason:

Premium Connectivity Not Working. Car Says it is Subscribed but no Features

also:

Lost...

I just wanted to say thanks one last time to everyone here. I've moved on from WMC to a streaming solution (lame, right?). I ran WMC for just over 10 years, so not quite the experience as some of you, but I do at least remember the old TGB and I really appreciate the effort that the tgb team made...

First not sure this is the best forum location for this post, so feel free to relocate it if needed.
I would like to ask the group what you are moving to from WMC?

I'm thinking of installing epg123 and don't mind the idea of doing this but wondering is it time to give up on WMC?

My PC is getting...