We've given up on waiting for Microsoft to natively support Blu-ray in Windows Media Center, but the good news is that the 3rd parties seem motivated to fill in the gap and the latest player from Cyberlink leap frogs ArcSoft's TotalMedia nicely. Although there are some additional under the hood enhancements -- still no HDMI 1.3 support, but seems to be coming with some sort of "Advanced Pack" -- that are welcomed, the big news in PowerDVD 9 is the Windows Media Center interface. Rather than just add a shortcut to the main menu that launches the application, Cyberlink has done some good work building a native MCML application. Source A big thumbs up to CyberLink here, I’m quite annoyed how even in Windows 7 Media Centre has no Bluray support. I’m currently using a hack that launches PowerDVD 8 when "Play DVD" is clicked and a Bluray disc is inserted. I’ll have to upgrade to the new version at some point