Memo to Cyberlink -- it's 2010, people.
It is NOT difficult to play a Blu-Ray disc with aero enabled. NOT AT ALL. Unless you have some truly piece of junk budget machine with integrated graphics (although even the latest Intel and Nvidia and Ati motherboard graphics are actually quite capable) playing a Blu-Ray disc with Aero enabled is VERY EASY.

I understand Hollywood has bullied you into disabling Blu-ray folder playback (but there are ways around that, thankfully) and Sony has bullied you in the past into disabling Aero to make Blu-ray playback more sustainable on as many machines as possible. But seriously, you guys need to grow a pair.

With that said, I was initially very pleased to see that the latest patch does allow the ‘Maintain Aero during Playback’ to work as it should. Before now, that option only worked in a Windows Vista environment, for some reason.

But it works only for playback on desktop version of PowerDVD 10.

I’ve discovered that if you leave Aero enabled and you try to play a Blu-Ray disc OR DVD in Windows Media Center, the screen freezes on the loading screen. Every time.
But if I check the ‘Allow PowerDVD to disable Aero’ option, then playback is fine. Apparently, PowerDVD 10 on desktop CAN playback Blu-ray discs with Aero enabled -- but PowerDVD 10 in Windows Media Center CANNOT start with Aero enabled.

This makes no sense. This is obviously a bug.
For the love of God, allow Aero to be maintained in ALL aspects of playback, in desktop mode (already working) and in Media Center mode (non-working).
Arcsoft Totalmedia Theatre 5 allows Aero during playback in both desktop mode and Media Center mode. It’s not that difficult, for god’s sake.

That’s all.