bit-tech Shopping: Nero 7 Ultra Edition

• Microsoft Windows 2000
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
• Microsoft Windows 98
• Microsoft Windows 98 SE
• Microsoft Windows ME
• Microsoft Windows XP
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Rating: 10

Time with product: 3 Months

Strengths: EVERYTHING

Weaknesses: NONE

Summary: nothing crashes!! looks good os fantatic. evry one with errour prob has a rubish comp and needs upgrading!! i have also got a lightscribe by sata!! one of the best buys ever every one say sata dont make a diffrence when it comes to CD Drives!! but let me tell you it sure dose!!!AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800msi platunim K9N SLImsi 7900gt 512MB and stupidy fast MHz1GB low lancey corrsiar ramsamsung spin point 160GB sata 8MB L2(modded case!!)-home made!! lol

Rating: 2

Time with product: 1 Years

Strengths: Um ... It's Red

Weaknesses: Crash, freeze, lockup, coasters. It does every thing but burn, the thing it's supposed to.

Summary: Where do I start. I've never seen a program so buggy. It is absolutely infested. It's rare to actually close it on purpose. Usually you just give up after a dozen or so crashes and coasters.Vision, the DVD mastering bit is incredibly picky about the source material. When it gets an AVI it doesn't like it just freezes. If you use this you'll get to where you just leave task manager open. That's the only way out of it.The backup program is the biggest waste of disk on earth. Greenpeace should be picketing the Nero offices. Every time I try a backup it will have a "recorder error" after 4 or 5 discs. Half a dozen more coasters!I even replaced my drive, thinking it could be a bad drive ... NO. Bad media? Well if TDK, Maxell and Memorex are all bad maybe.The bugs are just the half of it. This thing is so bloated you won't believe it. Here's one example. The file chooser (File open box) has 3, three, yes three search tabs on it. THREE! I think one search is enough. And because of this the file chooser takes way too long to open.After the bloat you come to the ridiculous. It comes with a windows media center wannabe. It has a "scout" that constantly searches your drives for media files. Yes another search tool! Nobody is that disorganized.I miss Nero when it was Just Burning ROM. When it could actually burn a ROM. Now all it does is crash and smolder.

Rating: 2

Time with product: 2 Months

Strengths: Name recognition. There are tons of features (but many don't work)

Weaknesses: Unreliable. Throws fatal Window errors at times and also has problems doing simple DVD copying.

Summary: I bought this product because I needed some simply DVD burning/copying utility and went with it due to its name recognition. There are many features in the product beyond simple cd/dvd copying. However, the product is not stable and some features produce fatal errors and others such as DVD copy hang during the process of reading. No errors or info is displayed, the progress bar just stops moving and the drive lights stop blinking. The problem is not with my hardware or the media I am using. I am able to do the same kind of DVD copying with the exact same setup using another piece of software.

Rating: 2

Time with product: 60

Strengths: Cutsy retail box

Weaknesses: Completely worthless! If you are using Nero 6 or something else that has been working, stay away from Nero 7 Ultra Enhanced.

Summary: This is the worst program I've seen in a long time. I couldn't get it to install and tech support was slow, and from reading most other reviews here and at C/net, it's apparent that Nero 7 was pushed out the door without any or enough debugging. Also tech support needs to respond quicker, but I can only gather that they are so busy trying to keep up with all the problems and that is why it takes them so long to reply. This is not to mention that tech supports help... did not help at all.I purchased the retail box version and will be taking it back for a refund. Perhaps when Nero 8 comes out they will realize that it is better to release a fully tested version that will pleasantly surprise the consumer and their tech support dept can get the training they desperately need.

Rating: 2

Time with product: 2

Strengths: None

Weaknesses: Unstable, poor support

Summary: I have been a long time Nero user and fan but I am done. There is no support for this bad product and I would suggest that you stay with version 6.6 or earlier and not purchase or download this problem in a box. It will burn Cd's but will rarely burn a DVD without crashing and causes Dr. Watson to crash too. Locks up the OS in the process. Just for experimentation I installed this on a fresh XP Pro installation with hardware that has proved it'self reliable and compatible with Nero 6.6 and earlier. I had the same result as the other machine I put it on with crashes and unreliable results. STAY AWAY!!!!