mcewinter wrote:PDVD is the comprimise that I would investigate. While STC seems eager to drift away from MCs features, I'm not quite ready. As long as PDVD "works" then this is the route I'll take. At the moment, I do not see a viable alternative to MC.
I wouldn't put it like that.
BR was never a feature of MC to begin with.
And choosing a stand-alone player isn't 'eager drift away', it's just the path of least resistance vs. adding a third party program to work within WMC; and then needing to maintain it/update it/deal with any issues it might produce when they do.
With a standalone player, you just have to change the input when it's time to watch something. And when there's an update, you just hit the 'OK' button when prompted - vs. having to bust out the m&kb or RDP in to the HTPC and download, then update, the software.
Me, on the other hand - I am eager to move onto something other than WMC - when something else becomes viable