Our forum administrator Dee-27 has posted more information about the upcoming large Windows Vista Media Center update that goes by the codename Fiji which will bring support for HDTV and DVB-S/S2 support and possibly Blu-ray playback. The update has been released to beta testers and in September 2008 Microsoft should release a release candidate.
Dee-27 writes: "There have been 3rd party plugins and hacks for Media Center available for a while that would allow Blu ray discs to be played on 32bit versions of Vista Media Center however, these hacks would not work for the 64bit versions of Vista. Media Center in Vista 64 is a native 64 bit application and, the problem with that is, it requires native 64 bit plugins and codecs.
There were also work around to allow Media Center to work with DVB S/S2 TV cards but not with HDTV channels but, now it's supported directly within the new Media Center update.
Vista also has its own enhanced video rendering engine (EVR) and HD picture quality is simply stunning.
Unfortunately it's difficult to show the picture quality in a screenshot on the forum, but here is a screenshot of BBC HD, on Vista Home Premium 64 bit (fiji update), taken a few minutes ago."
Now all we need is advice on how to upgrade our Vista from 32 to 64-bit.
Reply to Fred:
The answer is simple. Insert your bootable 64bit Vista DVD, and once prompted, click Install 
(formatting the hard drive is recommended but not mandatory).
There will be no other option.
I'm running both 32 and 64 bit Vista at my home on my two HTPCs (exact same hardware configuration), I find my 32 bit perform better with games. May be 5 years from now, every software vendor would choose to have just 64 bit applications and then, 64 bit OS will prove its power - not until then.
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