The Media Player of Windows 7 and Vista lets you stream the live radios, movies, music and TV shows on your devices using the Media Guide by Microsoft but, the Media Player in Windows 8 don’t have that option. Well, it actually has but, you can’t find any way to launch it from the Media Player.
The good news is that all the features of the Media Guide are still accessible in Windows 8’s Media Player but, you have to launch them from some other place unlike Windows 7 where you could find the Media Guide button in Media player.
We would be telling you on how you can access the Media Guide features of Windows on your Media Player using Windows 8 so, that you can listen to radio, music, watch TV shows and movies on Media Player from Media Guide by Microsoft.
Just follow the instructions below to access the Media guide feature of Windows 8.
Although, these is no way to access the Media Guide from Media Player but, you can access all the features from web and then, play the items using Media Player like always.
Instructions: • First of all, navigate to
this official web page of Windows Media Guide.
• Here select anything you want to play on your Windows Media Player like any movie trailer, TV show, radio channel or music.
• Once you have selected to play, your Media Player will launch automatically and the item you chose will start playing.
• That’s all! You can always go to the Media Guide web page to play anything you like.
Well, better have something then to have nothing.
source:windows8core
