WinTV vs. WMC

[Nergo Pthycc]

Both Windows 7 and 8.1 provide great TV recording with WMC and I have (over the years) 1600 recordings. Don't want to upgrade to Windows 10 before I can get opinions that WinTV (from Hauppauge) will be a suitable replacement, including reading my old WMC recordings. Any ideas or opinions?

 

[nukemaster]

WMC will be pretty hard to beat to be honest.

For years it just worked. Lately however, it seems to have more and more screw ups(missing/wrong guide data/recording on channels it is not told to and fun stuff like that.).

WinTV has recording options, but I do not remember it even being close to MCE. It may be time to take a look at it. Looks like they have changed quite a bit

Many of the other alternatives require a guide subscription as well or at least seem to in my location.

While Windows 10 does not support media center, some of the video may still playback(MP4 should work if i remember). 3rd party software like VLC and MPC should be able to playback the Mpeg2 stuff.