Tuner-Free TV in Media Center

Written by Alan Wednesday, 14 July 2010 08:00

Media Center is one of the most underrated technologies Microsoft has ever introduced.  It allows you to enjoy live and recorded TV, video, movies, music and pictures with an interface suitable for the living room and compatible with a remote control.

Despite this, not many users of Media Center actually use it for it’s main purpose – recording and watching TV.  Why?  Well, it does not have the easiest setup.  Installing a tuner card in the PC and setting up everything isn’t hard for a geek, but it’s also not a mom and dad operation.

However, what few have realized is that you don’t need to install a tuner card, hook up your cable box and go through the setup process to watch TV on your PC.  Not only can you set up Amazon video-on-demand inside of Media Center and watch the built-in Netflix, but there’s a great selection of internet TV available as well.

Just scroll down to the TV listing in Media Center and you will find the, recently added, Internet TV.  The internet TV “channels” are also available if you click on the Guide option.  You can also add a desktop gadget that links to the available internet TV shows.

You will find both new and old full-length TV shows, as well as clips.

Now, if only we could get Hulu built into Media Center so we don’t have to use the “hack“.

Alan

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2 Comments

1. Chook   |  Sunday, 24 July 2011 at 7:22 pm

   Won’t work outside of USA

   
2. Alan   |  Sunday, 24 July 2011 at 8:42 pm

   That stinks. I wasn’t aware of that. Thanks for letting everyone know.