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 - Nero 8Came in a sealed box, works just like it is supposed to, fast shipment. No problems Rating:  - Beware of UpgradesBEWARE. This product is VERY buggy. In addition the upgrades are impossible. I purchased two months ago - and just this week did a software update. The update to download is 185 MBs - the entire program - and required three Reboots for its normal install. A full 90 minutes was required to upgrade with DSL (15 minutes to download - and 75 minutes for the incredibly slow installation and reboots). Now - if I want to use it for HD video - I have to purchase an Add-on and reinstall again. No way. In my 10 years of using computers with dozens of programs - this is the worst upgrade process I have seen. Rating: - Nero 8 - bloated, buggy, and obnoxiousI just "upgraded" from Nero 6 to Nero 8. Big mistake. The new version is bloated, buggy, and obnoxious. First, installation is very slow. Make sure you have a few hours free. 5-10 minutes of unpacking, 3-4 minutes of Nero's installer, and then 5 minutes or so of the Windows installer. After all those steps, it checks for any problems, like the presence of a previous version of Nero. If there's a previous version, it asks if it can uninstall it; you can only have one version at a time, and there's no going back. After the uninstall, it demands that the computer be rebooted. Then you get to do the install all over again. Then, after the installation, if you want to burn CDs or DVDs from a non-administrator account, you have to enable Nero Burn Rights. Then you get to reboot again. During installation, Nero tries to install some toolbar from Ask. (You know, Barry Diller's company, IAC, the one that's being broken up.) There's a checkbox to turn this off. Make sure you disable that. Then Nero tries to become the default program for just about every audio and video filename extension known. Just turn all of those off. Also turn off all the Nero stuff it wants to put in your toolbar. Oh, and it tries to get you to sign up for Nero spam. OK, now we're through installation. But we're not done yet. Nero will have installed several permanently running processes, none of which you want. There's "NMIndexStoreSvr.exe", "NMIndexingService.exe", "NBService.exe", and "IoctlSvc.exe". These have to be dealt with. "The "NM*" processes are part of something called "Nero Scout", which is an indexing application you don't want. Under Program Files -> Nero -> Tools -> Nero Scout, there's a dialog box with a checkbox to disable Nero Scout. Use that. The useless processes will still be launched at startup, but will stop using time and disk accesses. Actually removing the launch of those useless processes takes more work, but removal tools exist. OK, with this turkey installed, we try to make a DVD. The application for this is called "Nero Vision". This is like a weak version of DVDit coupled to a weak version of Adobe Premiere. It's buggy; it generates DVD menus semi-automatically, but when I deleted a clip and added a new one, the menus got out of sync with the clips. And, in fact, so far every video DVD I've made will not play in a regular DVD player, although it will play on a PC. This product has negative value. DO NOT BUY. Rating: - More Than Just A Burning ProgramOk, I've been using Nero since it first came on to the burning scene and recently, Nero has not only been my one and only choice for burning but has made my life much more pleasant in the world of networking and digital streaming. I just picked up a D-Link digital media player because like all other hackers and downloaders, I wanted a pure and simple way to stream all of my files to my high def home system. Using Nero Home and Nero Scout, I was able to network whatever I wanted (in any music or video format that Nero would play including Blu-Ray files) directly to my home theater set up combined with my D-Link player with virtually no glitches. Two big thumbs...way up! Rating: - CD - Dvd duplicator by NeroI am very pleased with my Nero CD/DVD duplicator and am more pleased with the haste with which I received it from you. Thank you.
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