Upgrade just for Media Center? Yes/No?

[leroys1000]

I upgraded my old dual core,socket 939 htpc to windows 8 32 bit.
It had problems with my older,smaller IDE and SATA drive.
Windows 8 has a bios overlay that takes over and was crashing the drives.
I am using my newer WD 500GB IDE drive and it is working well.
I have a switch to destop and media center shortcut in my startup folder
to start the system in live TV mode.
Sometimes the taskbar shows,but I just hit a button on the remote to change
focus to media center.
I had to disable windows 8 fast boot as it creates a partial hibernation file
and saves media center settings on exit,which caused the tuner to go into
all tuners are in use,please select playback to stop or whatever.
Turning off fast boot got rid of that and allowed me back into my bios.
There are some TV channel apps available in the windows store for some of the
channels that can be directly accessed from metro.
I have my antec veris elite VFD/remote working,so I can just hit the menu button
to access metro at any time.

[Silversee]

I did the upgrade and I have noticed several improvements and one major bug:

First, the positive:

1. Performance overall seems improved. Extender UI is snappier too.
2. Audio quality during stereo music playback on the extenders is improved
3. Windows 8 now natively plays .m4v files having H.264 video and 5.1 audio without kludgey 3rd party codecs or splitters

The bug, however, is that the aforementioned video files with 5.1 audio do not play back properly on extenders; the video arrives pixelated and subsampled. There is some indication that Microsoft is working on this, so I am keeping my fingers crossed that it gets fixed.