, Dr Herbie wrote

Well I use mine a lot for digital terrestrial TV (Freeview in the UK).

Given that there are 26 million households in the UK, most of which now can receive digital TV through their existing antenna, there is still a place for MCE as far as I'm concerned.

Herbie

Same here. I stream recorded shows in HD to my tablet from Build. It works quite nice.

That said for me it's not so much the loss of WMC but the stripping of DVD support. One more "PC" related technology headed for the dust bin. It's pretty clear Sinofsky is building W8 with tablets only in mind; anything PC related that doesn't translate to a tablet form factor is a candidate for removal. Pretty sad he's so myopic. I can't wait to see Apple start stripping down OSX so it works more constrained like iOS; oh wait, there not...

And BTW, if their going to dump investment in WMC and replace it with the Music, Video, and like apps in Metro I really suggest they work on the "fast & fluid" nature of these apps. The Music app for one is the slowest POS of all of them.