Internet streaming TV now that WMC is dead

I built an HTPC about a year ago that is a solution for me for blu ray, NAS, and media center viewer on my tv.

For the past couple of months I've just been going into the web browser and finding my shows through amazon prime or the perspective tv channel (ie www.nbc.com) but am looking for a tuner free option for the system. I have Netflix and amazon prime, and have no use for Hulu plus.

Are their any true Internet streaming live TV media center apps with guide data available? The old WMC guide was ok but required a tuner.

I think I might have confused the subject sorry.

1.) I am looking for a front end that has both guide data and live TV without using a tuner (if I can do this). If not I'm thinking I might wait for the TiVo mini to use as an extender for my TiVo premier in my living room. I believe that will have both guide data and live TV with only having to use one mcard.

2.) I am also looking for a replacement the Internet TV plugin the WMC used to have. This is more what I was eating at now that WMC is dead since Microsoft is starting to push their Xbox as the HTPC media solution. It is getting harder and harder to set up WMC as a solo media front without having to go to browser options to watch shows.

Does that clarify what I was asking?

I know how to use WMC and have it set up. I am just looking for options that exist WITHOUT a tuner, if one exists.

I use it as the front end for media browser, amazon instant video( even though its not HD yet), and bluray player. Since the deletion of Internet TV that came with it stock I've been looking at new solutions.

This is very unfortunate that MS No longer wants to support the HTPC platform mainly because they are toting Xbox as the media home solution. With more roku's, apple tv's, and TiVo boxes The commercial industry is trying to get their own product as the replacement. So now you only need to buy their product and their software. It's a model that is becoming more and more prevalent across the electronics industry. Where brand-name is something you have to choose between the lesser of two evils. You get some of the options but not all on what you want. HTPC's are still the best most customizable option out there but the route you can go with these are becoming more and more limited in the multimedia digital age where proprietary software rights, copyright protection, and DRM are becoming single use and only accessible on single systems not across the spectrum.

Big-time media companies and cable providers have become smart about the whole HTPC and cutting the cord option. There are many shows that you can only watch online if you have a major brand-name cable company service provider to login to view them. The Olympics were one such thing that I've noticed recently. Enforcement of DRM and other copyrights are becoming easier for law enforcement to track and persecute mainly because of the digital footprint that is left when somebody uses such means to circumvent these projections.

It's becoming the chicken or the egg predicament as consumers we want to be able to consume media however and whenever we want. As a corporation or a company they want you to pay for every use and/or pay them so they make money on the use of the media they produce. Ie Apple TV and iOS product lines if not jail broken you can only consume things approved by them or sold by them (with some exceptions I know)

Like everyone else I am looking for a media solution that works across the board for me. Something that I can play DVDs, Blu-rays, MP3s, video formats,Internet TV, live cable TV, and OTA feeds. Obviously there is no pre box hardware that is a acceptable solution for this problem. And now with windows media center no longer being supported and improved by Microsoft the one major proprietary software that supported this solution is starting to die out due to pressure and concerns that there are more profitable business models out there.

In the end the consumer is the one who suffers. And the corporations are going to suffer because people are going to try to find ways to circumvent the system. I have no problem paying a reasonable price for my digital media But not at the prices the corporations are asking and Mandatory requirements to play it on their hardware.

I can only hope that the developer community continues to produce excellent software solutions such as XMBC and other for HTPC platform

I also got into HTPC mainly because I wanted more availability of Internet feeds on my TV and Portability to different media consumption devices as needed.

But back to my original question other than second run TV are there any other good replacements for the Internet TV that used to come stock with Windows media player?

Second run is not worth the $3.99 I spent on it. Another one of those wasted money experiments.