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Stupid question, I have access to a free copy of Windows 8 Home, would that be fine to use or should I go buy Windows 8 Pro?
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You have to have Windows 8 Pro to install WMC8.
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Thanks. So playing DVDs can be done through third party player. After some searching I can't find anything that lists Windows 8 Pro or pieces of WMC8 being needed for XBMC's PVR functionality. I'm guessing it's using it's own codec (or third party codec) support. So looks like I'll be fine with Windows 8 basic.
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Passmark numbers come from user submissions so you'll see weirdness like that. In normal usage, you're very unlikely to tell the difference between a G1610 and G2120 experience-wise, Very few HTPC tasks are CPU-bound.