Nero 6 [OLD VERSION]

by Nero Inc.

Product Features

• CD/DVD burning suite with a complete set of media tools
• All-in-one solution to data, audio, video, photo, and backup
• Make a photo CD, slide show, or DVD from home videos
• Playback digital media files; archive song collection in MP3
• Backup personal data; legally recode DVDs

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00028CBHU
• Item model number: 16500
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 12, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (65 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,625 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #60 in Software > Video & Music > DVD Viewing & Authoring
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Nero 6 Ultra Edition: The ultimate CD/DVD burning suite. Go beyond the everyday rip and burn with this new, complete set of media tools. With the Nero 6 Ultra Edition, you can:

• Archive your song collection in MP3
• Make a DVD from your holiday home videos
• Make a photo CD or slide show
• Playback all your digital media files
• Make a backup of your personal data
• Legally recode your DVDs using Nero Digital

The Nero 6 Ultra Edition is your all-in-one solution to data, audio, video, photo, and backup. Ahead Software has combined their best applications to satisfy all your digital media needs and made them accessible through the Nero StartSmart, the central starting point and command center for all tasks. Now you can capture, edit, author, and burn your photos and home videos without buying different software packages.

It's simple, it's reliable, it's cost-effective.

And now you get even more with your Nero 6 Ultra Edition!

Nero Recode 2 provides top-quality audio and video for your home theatre! You can make backups of non-copyrighted DVDs without any visible loss of quality. You can fit a whole movie on a normal blank DVD (4.8 GB) and still enjoy the same great quality as well as 5.1 Dolby surround sound.

But Nero Recode 2 takes DVD backup even a step further. With Nero Digital, the world's fastest MPEG-4 encoder, you can now convert DVDs to Nero Digital files and fit an entire movie on only one CD. Get the future of audio and video compression and recode your DVDs today!

Applications included in Nero 6 Ultra Edition:

• Nero Burning Rom 6
• Nero Express 6
• Nero Vision Express 2
• Nero ShowTime
• Nero BackITUp
• Nero Mix
• InCD4
• Nero SoundTrax
• Nero Wave Editor 2
• Nero Cover Designer
• Nero Tool Kit
• Nero Recode 2
• Nero Digital

Product Description

Disc Contains both: Nero 6 & Nero Photo Shop Elite

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

197 of 205 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The pinnacle of CD and DVD mastering., July 27, 2004

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Christopher Wanko "-C" (Nutley, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nero 6 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I switched from Adaptec/Roxio software about two years ago, and have never looked back. In fact, I'm so far removed from Nero's competitors that I can no longer provide a survey for comparison. I don't think it's necessary, either: Nero does for CDs, DVDs, and audio-video files what Microsoft Office does for documents and spreadsheets. Everything.

Nero burns CDs and DVDs, extremely well and with a feature-set largely unmatched by its peers. You can read RAW, write RAW, create bootable CDs and DVDs, burn a variety of image formats, create images for later burning, and so on. The interface is intuitive and customizable, and you'll find a way to do nearly anything you can imagine with respect to transferring data to blank media.

If that was all Nero did, it might not be a bargain at its current price, but it would still be the best tool for the job. So Ahead bundles it with a packet-writing tool called InCD, which makes rewritable DVDs and CDs look like hard drives. Then Ahead bundles Nero Recode, and you know you've got something special.

Recode will take a DVD and copy it, either in user-arranged pieces or entirely. It will not copy protected DVDs, but if your DVD content is unprotected, Recode will let you resize it to fit on a single 4.7Gb disc, or split a large movie over multiple discs. You can even set menus and titles, and create master images for later burning. Recode is extremely easy to use, and one of the best DVD utilities today.

Ahead isn't finished yet. Also with the bundle are speed tools for checking your drives; an Image tool that will mount saved image files to appear like virtual drives; a cover designer for the jewel cases; a WAV editor with some fairly hefty ability; a mixer that allows a user to pull together multiple sources into remixed output; a DVD-SVCD-VCD- player; and a VCD/SVCD tool to convert movies to popular compressed formats.

What I'm trying to tell you, gentle reader, is that even if your PC shipped with Roxio's software, you should buy this bundle and use it. It is updated quite frequently -- updates free within the major version -- and its abilities will unlock a great deal of the power of that PC you have.

Fred

58 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solves my problems.. with a few warts..., February 14, 2005

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Addison Phillips (San Jose, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nero 6 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Like many other reviewers here, I bought Nero because of frustration. I'm not a computer neophyte, but I don't want to struggle for hours in order to do something simple (like copy files onto a DVD writer). I don't really want to learn 900 new terms. I just want to accomplish certain things that ought to be easy.

After I installed my new DVD writer (a Plextor, which I love), I had a whole raft of software--old Roxio that only worked with one drive and a new copy that only worked with the Plextor with CD media and... well, a whole raft of software lurking on my machine and wanting to own every DVD inserted into either DVD drive. Ick.

I tried them all and couldn't get the drive to be recognized or various conflicts between various bits of software to be resolved. Was it the media? The drive? The USB cable? What's up? Why is this so *hard*?!?

It was really hard to select a product to fix this, since they all promise the moon, but based on reading the fine print and crossing all fingers and some toes, I purchased this product.

The good news: it works and most of the pieces are really easy to use. It copies the DVDs made from our video camera. It saves files to disc. It can get the 4x performance my drive can deliver. It can record Video CDs of my photos for the relatives. It works!

The bad news: there's a whole raft of software in the collection and some of it is of doubtful utility. Some of the programs are harder to use than they should be (but not crack-the-manual difficult to figure out). And the user interface is the ever-so-annoying all graphical flavor.

Finally, and this almost certainly doesn't apply to you, I run my computer in another language (usually Japanese and sometimes French). The install CD and software complain bitterly that they don't support running in "the current language" (and then fire up in English and work perfectly) and some portions display in one or another language (I can live with that).

Otherwise... the tasks I wasted days trying to accomplish with other software takes the appropriate number of minutes with this product. I recommend it strictly on the basis that "it works"!

49 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a Winner After Many Frustrations, September 27, 2004

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K. Palmer (Illinois) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nero 6 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I recently bought a multi-format external DVD burner for my computer. The burner came with Roxio 7 Basic software. I had Roxio 5 on my computer. Neither version of the software resulted in much success with burning DVDs on this new burner(although Roxio 7 did burn half of a DVD before calling it quits; Roxio 5 wouldn't even start burning).

For a while now, I've read a lot of good things about Nero 6 Ultra Edition, but I felt it was too pricey for me. But a local retailer had a sale where the price was significantly reduced, so I took the plunge. A very good decision. I have burned several DVDs in DVD+R and DVD-R format without an error and have also burned CDs and MP3 discs with no problems. I haven't checked out all of the many fetures of the software (there are photo and video creation applications, a DVD player, an MP3 ripper program, a sound recorder and even more). You probably could get by with this as your sole source for digital media and I may someday. But for burning, it's the best.