Microsoft has announced that its new Windows 8 operating system will not play DVDs unless users purchase an upgrade.
“Users will either have to pay to upgrade to the ‘Media Center’ or download extra, third-party software if they do want to play films,” reports The Telegraph.
According to the official Building Windows 8 blog, the change is in response to television and DVD use on PCs being “in sharp decline”. “It claims that Microsoft would have to spend ‘a significant amount in royalties’ to offer support for optical media in future software,” explains the article.
Microsoft will support online media including standards such as H.264, VC-1, MP4, AAC, WMA, MP3, PCM and Dolby Digital Plus codecs. Ultrabooks and tablets running Windows 8 will not have DVD drives.
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