Windows 8 has no free DVD playback

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Windows 8 will not play DVD discs anymore, unless you pay for the Media Center pack


Here is something interesting, you may already know that Microsoft
plans to sell Windows Media Center as a separate paid pack, but now
the company has just revealed that Windows 8 will also stop the
support for DVD playback. This won’t be the case of course, if you
upgrade to the Media Center pack that you only will be able to install
if you have the Pro edition of the upcoming OS or installing a
third-party DVD application.

In the announcement in the "Building Windows 8" blog, the software
maker explains that most of the videos play today on the PC and mobile
devices come from online sources such as YouTube, Hulu, Netflix,
Amazon and many other services and it continues to grow in a rapid
pace; in the other hand DVDs and TV broadcast are “in sharp decline”
even Blu-ray is losing momentum on the PC, which translate in to “a
significant amount in royalties” to continue the support for these
playback scenarios.