Aztec, Breeze, and Crystal - Now Playing Backdrop Issues

[jkanoy 6]

I have been trying out Breeze, Crystal, and Aztec.  I love them all and would like to buy them.  However, a small issue I can't seem to figure out for the life of me is how to turn off the now playing backdrop for these themes.  If now playing is a movie, then everything runs nice and smooth.  However, if you're watching live TV from windows media center and then start MBC, the background screen gets choppy and the theme moves incredibly slow.  I would prefer not to have to stop playback of live TV just in order to use these themes.  Is there a setting I'm overlooking to turn this off?

 

Please help! Thanks in advance!