Thursday 15 November 2012

A further sign of the accelerated eradication of DVDs of our lives, Microsoft has made the decision to not include DVD or Blu-ray capability for the coming Windows 8 launching. Without paying for a paid upgrade from Microsoft, you simply will not have the ability to enjoy a Blu-ray or DVD movie as you can on your own present-day Windows machine.

Microsoft’s reasoning for this is that people now prefer streaming videos or pay per view. Microsoft’s Windows 8 Announcement was a clear business decision. Microsoft is pressurized from PC producers to keep the Windows 8 charge lower. They deemed licensing the codec a fruitless investment for their operating system.

This presents everyone one less way of enjoying those used DVDs lying around the house, possibly creating a further incentive to investigate streaming video from Amazon or Netflix or from numerous Online stations.

Your neighborhood video rental store failed for a good reason. But at mx123.com we are stubbornly hanging on to reselling DVDs as long as possible before they’re history. We'll gladly buy those used digital video disc and Blu-rays you are no longer viewing and give them one more life. But we suggest selling them today before they shed further valuation to the inescapable trail to obsolescence. It's sad but so genuinely true.