Nero 7 is by far the most complete and best value for the buck.
The backbone of it is where it has the experience for being the best media burner/reader/ripper for over a decade. Nero Burning Rom and Nero Express are and have been that standard of excellence fo compare all other products of their kind.
They also have improved and tightened Nero recode II and Nero Vision that they are now the top for equivelent video products. All of these keep being upgraded, debugged and passed on free to all Nero 7 Ultra Edition users. Even the latest upgrade to Nero 7 Ultra Edition Enhanced is a free upgrade to verson 7 users.
No one come close to packing all of their useful software, which continually improves and adds functionality.
With Nero, it is always true that they are commited to continuous improvement. The never products of their incredibly large suite keep being enhanced and becoming more and more stable and useful.
Working with Multimedia keeps requiring more expertise. Especially with the poison that Sony/BMG, Apple and Microsoft has added to increase complexity and lower quality.
Unfortunately there are many that don't understand the fact that "they don't understand" and fly off the handle with posting complaints before they don't have the expertise, experience and patience to properly diagose problems.
It is amnazing that someone complains that Nero has grown with the industry and offers so much functionality in their suite that it bothers them. If you don't want to learn or use some part of the suite, THEN DON'T. To complain publically really makes one look so foolish.
It is NOT too complex for anyone. Just don't use what you don't want to use. For example, most of the time when ripping/burning, I choose the incredibly simple Nero Express interface. When I need some come complexity, I then will go to Nero Rom, which can do everything that anyone can dream of.
Nero Recod II, someone can bring in a file, make a couple of clicks and off it goes. No complexity unless one needs it or wants it.
Backitup, use the Wizards if you want.
It is the user's choice on complexity. everyone doesn't need to be a high end user.
The most amazing comment is bluemoon. I would bet my house that bluemoon's problem is NOT because of Nero, but ignorance, media, PC issues, hardware issues. Probably is he reboots he will be fine. OR, don't use that cheap media that has a retail stores name on it. Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim (not the chinese made Verbatim), and media issues will go away. Memorex, HP, "Store labeled", are all made in mainland China in the cheapest possible way, by CMC.
Product reviews by 'jolo'
What can I say.
I have been using Virtualdub for years and the product continuously gets more useful. What a great all around tool that is really the cornerstone of multimedia encoding.
I urge all of you that talk about the incredible contribution of Virtualdub TO DONATE TO THE AUTHOR.
I throw in 10 or 20 every so often because I want the Vdub's writer to havbe enough money to keep improving the product, have whatever hardware he needs and to have enough left over to pay his bills and have enough more to enjoy himself.
Nothing is more pure than "Donationware".
Xvid DOES NOT COMPETE with professionally created, maintained, marketed Divx.
Xvid really is a pain and has delayed the acceptance and spread of standardized MPEG-4, Divx.
Xvid is for kids who like to play with software, but it totally unprofessional and NOT industry standard.
Fortunatelly, Divx, which has to deal with ALL of the marketing efforts to get compresssed video support in standard DVD players and is really breaking through in that area. That has to cost a fortune to do.
Divx Player is free and Divx Pro is really cheap, about $40.00 with upgrades forever. If you want professionals, support, people marketing to DVD makers to include their compressed video formats and support compressed video, DON'T USE THE HACKY, UNPREDICTABLE XVID. It is stupid and hurts all of us.
If there are cheapskates who think that XVID is free, it isn't, it cost and cost us all plenty. Divx is NOT Microsoft and if a group is trying to do something special and compete in the market place, PLEASE SUPPORT THEM.
You see the cost of Xvid anytime you see a stand alone DVD player that has no compressed video support. You see the cost of Xvid anytime you see limited resources for professional development and marketing for Divx.
You see the cost of Xvid for all of that crappy non-standard garbage that gets distributed that is compatible with nothing.
You see the cost of Xvid when cable fees go up because they are NOT using an standard compressed video format by a professional organization like Divx and the bandwidth is so much higher along cable lines to play movies and WE ALL PAY FOR THAT.
Anyone who says that Xvid is faster or better than Divx is a moron who is ignorant on how to use Divx.
Xvid users really hurt serious programmers and a small company trying to do things the right way and finally, dispite Xvid's nonsense, is getting more stand alone DVD players to support the format.
If anyone has some additions and changes to Divx, than do something positive for us all and get involved with Divx and Divx Labs. Get active on the forums, become a beta user. You can go directly to Divx Labs and speak directly to the developers. They are a small company trying to do big things.
Don't use Xvid. It hurts us all.
Jon
