menu bars wont go away

I have had the same thought when I discovered the same MCE behavior.  What I found is that if MCE launches when you insert the DVD, things will disappear when there is no mouse movement.  When MCE is already started, the behavior you speak of is true.

 

I nipped the whole thing in the bud and just bought the version 6 PowerDVD as an OEM Dell upgrade for 39.99.

 

Kev

The big differences are...

 

second generation color enhancement

better handling of screen and display type (letterbox, panscan, wide)

sound enhancement for 2.1 speaker systems to emulate surround sound (its pretty cool - love it)

decoders for just about every format you can think of (including DivX and Xvid)

 

40 smackers well spent in my book.

 

Alternative would be

 

Sonic

WinDVD

 

I have used both of those as well in the past.  I personally like the PowerDVD.

 

Kev