Nero 8 Ultra Edition [OLD VERSION]

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Product Features

• Organize and manage all your multimedia files and create/edit new digital content with ease
• User-friendly and intuitive StartSmart interface; One-click Rip, Burn and Copy functions
• Easy export and share to YouTube, MySpace and My Nero; Stream to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
• High Definition format support
• Backup files to CDs, DVDs, HD DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000V9YXJ4
• Item model number: 800087
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 20, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (126 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,696 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

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Welcome to your digital life. Nero 8 Ultra Edition, the newest version of the world's best-selling multimedia suite, brings the digital world to your PC. Now it's easy to organize and manage all your multimedia files, as well as create and edit new digital content. Nero's sleek design and user-friendly tools make completing projects fun and enjoyable.

View the Nero 8 Ultra Edition Video Tour.

StartSmart lets you directly access features and perform one-click functions.

Give your pictures a touch-up with tools that let you make improvements, add visual effects, and much more.

The Ultimate Solution for your Digital Life

Nero StartSmart makes creating projects fun and simple
Nero StartSmart, the project launcher for Nero 8 Ultra Edition, lets you directly access features and perform one-click functions. The intuitive interface makes creating and managing digital projects easy and enjoyable. Optimized for use with Windows Vista, Nero StartSmart even has an integrated newsfeed system.

Nero 8 Ultra Edition is the solution for your multimedia projects
Nero 8 Ultra Edition has the tools to help you handle all your multimedia projects. Whether you plan to create a music mix with MP3 files, edit vacation videos, touch up digital photos, make a slide show, or convert content to play on a mobile device, your results will be professional and dynamic.

Nero 8 Ultra Edition takes home entertainment around the house
Organize and manage all your multimedia files with Nero's home media center. Nero 8 Ultra Edition lets you use your Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 to stream High Definition video content and surround sound audio files to enjoy in the comfort of any room in your house.

Nero 8 Ultra Edition offers increased data security
No more worries over losing data! Nero 8 Ultra Edition has back up features that let you rest easy knowing your data is safe in case of a complete system crash or a damaged disc. Recover your data quickly and easily and create discs that are password protected. SecurDisc technology gives you peace of mind.

Create and Edit

Video
Your last vacation, your brother's wedding, your daughter's graduation--do you record every memorable moment on video? Now get more from your camcorder recordings. With Nero 8 Ultra Edition you can easily edit High Definition content in AVCHD format with professional results. Insert chapters and menus, and even enhance videos and slide shows with background music. Enjoy your favorite TV shows without interruption simply by editing out the commercial breaks.

Audio
Are you a music lover and want to keep your favorite songs close at hand? Convert your music collection to MP3 format and experience listening pleasure at home and on the go. Impress your friends at your next party by mixing and editing your favorite songs with professional effects and tools. With Nero 8 Ultra Edition, you get crystal-clear audio for your video files and up to 7.1 surround sound.

Photo
Do you have hundreds or even thousands of digital photos saved on your hard drive? Give your pictures a touch-up with tools that let you make improvements, add visual effects, and much more. Surprise your kids by presenting a family slide show on your television set! No more searching through tons of files for the images you want. With Nero 8 Ultra Edition, it's easy to organize your photos!

Convert and Share

High Definition
Do you have High Definition video content but no blue laser burner? Convert HD content easily into AVCHD format, and compress content without losing quality. Your HD content can then be burned to a normal DVD and played on a Blu-ray Disc player or PlayStation 3 for the ultimate blue laser experience.

Video Conversion
Want to bring your video content along with you? With Nero 8 Ultra Edition, you can simply convert DVD content to play back on an iPod or PSP. Use the world's fastest MPEG-4 encoder to compress DVD content while maintaining optimal quality, then burn to a CD or save to a USB stick, Flash memory, or an SD card.

Music
Nero 8 Ultra Edition offers unlimited MP3 support. Convert your audio files to MP3, the world's most popular audio format, and enjoy your favorite songs at home or on the go.

Internet
Share the latest news of your life with friends right over the Internet! Post your best videos and photos with easy upload to online communities like My Nero, YouTube and MySpace

With Nero 8 Ultra Edition you can easily edit High Definition content in AVCHD format with professional results.

Plan automatic backups to regularly secure your data and receive e-mails confirming your backup.

Home Entertainment

Media Center
Turn your living room into a real media center and experience home entertainment like never before! Stream live TV to an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. Connect your game consoles to a TV and enjoy your favorite shows in any room in the house!

Television
Don't miss another episode of your favorite series! Use your PC to record all your favorite shows. The EPG support in Nero 8 Ultra Edition makes selecting and recording broadcasts easy! Even if the phone rings while you're watching TV, with the Time Shift feature you can take your phone call, and then resume watching your show exactly where you left off!

Music Streaming
No more wasted time changing CDs at your next party. With Nero 8 Ultra Edition, you can create playlists and stream music from your PC to your stereo for uninterrupted tunes all night long!

Rip and Burn

Rip and Burn
Born2Burn? Rip audio CDs and non-copy-protected DVDs quickly and easily with the world's leading burning engine. Burn audio files or data to CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, or HD DVD. Want to burn movies to DVD? With DVD-R Dual Layer and DVD+R Double Layer support, you'll get more data on a disc than ever before!

Nero DiscCopy Gadget
The Nero DiscCopy Gadget is optimized for use with Windows Vista and lets you copy a disc with just one click from the Vista Sidebar!

SecurDisc Technology
With Nero 8 Ultra Edition and a SecurDisc-compatible drive, you can burn CDs and DVDs with password protection against unauthorized access, or add a digital signature to ensure that your sensitive data remains unchanged. SecurDisc increases the readability of data even on damaged discs, and also lets you know when a disc is nearing decay, so you have time to save the data to another disc. The SecurDisc Copy Protection feature prevents unauthorized duplication of confidential PDF documents.

Back Up

Data Protection
No more worries over lost data! With SecurDisc technology, you can back up files, drives, and entire systems to internal or external hard drives. For maximum protection, create a bootable CD to recover an entire system after a crash. Need to access your data even when you're on a business trip? Create backups over the Internet to an FTP server and access important data from anywhere you go! Plan automatic backups to regularly secure your data and receive e-mails confirming your backup.

SecurDisc
With the SecurDisc technology within Nero 8 Ultra Edition, you can ensure increased readability of your data even on a damaged disc. In addition, the early warning system in SecurDisc examines CDs and DVDs to determine if an aging disc is in danger of decay, so you have time to back up the data on another disc.

Product Description
Nero 8 Ultra Edition gives you a suite of easy-to-use tools to meet your digital lifestyle needs. You can record live TV, convert non-copy-protected DVD files to play on your iPod, capture high definition video, share your photos and videos online, mix your music, edit your videos and photos, backup your files or system, burn any media and playback all popular formats from the Nero StartSmart interface which provides One-Click functions, efficiency and speed for completing your tasks. Have fun creating and editing music in popular formats, mix songs, and add professional sound effects and transitions Burn your content into AVCHD format and experience High Definition on your PC with Nero ShowTime 3, in Blu-ray Disc players and on the PlayStation 3 Edit and enhance your photos (redeye correction, crop, rotate, adjust, enhance) Create, Share and Burn entertaining slideshows with special effects, templates, transitions and music Import and share your digital content from YouTube, My Nero and My Space Convert your audio and video to MPEG-4 (Nero Digital) by compressing and converting your media files to your preferred formats Stream content to your Xbox 360 and stream Internet TV and radio Integrated TV, DVD, music and video streaming, recording and playback Turn your PC into a PVR with integrated time shifting, TV recording, picture in picture display and watch one channel while recording another Support for DVD-R Dual Layer format and DVD+R Double Layer Restore files after a system crash the way it was in the event of a complete system failure Backup options to disc, hard disk, image recorder, LAN or FTP Recover your data from damaged discs with integrated SecurDisc technology

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

176 of 180 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Some useful utilities, but a nightmare to install, November 29, 2007

By	JaneConsumer (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews

Nero 8 comprises several useful utilities for creating, editing and managing all types of media, but it's the most difficult software I have ever installed - and I'm no novice. First, if you have ever used a Nero product (on a drive connected to your current PC), even if your use is/was through a third-party service, such as Audible.com, you must - absolutely must - uninstall it first. If you do, you'll reduce your chances of experiencing the problems you read about here and elsewhere.

Not only do you have to uninstall all previous Nero-related software, you have to make sure it uninstally *cleanly*. This means you have to go beyond using the Windows Add/Remove programs feature.

Before you do any uninstalling/installing, I recommend setting a restore point for your PC. In this way, you can easily return your PC to the state it was in if things go wrong.

I've been working with the software for several days, and I like some of the features. Playing DVD movies is easy with Nero's remote control type interface. With Nero WaveEditor, you can create or edit .wav, .mp3 and a few other sound file types. Burning CDs is easy with Nero Express.

But Audible.com subscribers, like me, who use Audible Manager with a Nero sidekick to burn audiobooks will have to use a workaround once they install Nero 8, so be aware of this. When it suddenly didn't work, I called Audible - a toll free number (take a hint, Nero) - and the techie walked me through a very simple workaround that uses Nero Express.

Overall, I'm glad I persisted in getting this software to work. But if I had it to do over, I wouldn't have purchased the software. It's not worth the effort. I'm also extremely put out by Nero's cavalier attitude toward buyers - telephone support is fee-based even during the first 30 days, e-mail support is sloooooooow or non-existent (8 days and counting with no response), My Nero is a joke (a blog format for community tech support?).

100 of 102 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Higher version number...lower product quality..., December 24, 2007

By	30-year Technology Consumer "8-tracks to 802.11" (Central Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews

I've used Nero for optical device recording/ripping needs since Version 5. I've tried other applications (Roxio and others), but for Windows users, Nero has set the standard.

Version 8 shows some issues that Nero should *not* let continue:

(1) The package can only be described as "bloated". The current downloadable version is over 180 MB. While this is not an issue if you have broadband, Nero inexplicably doesn't include the product's help files in the download content.

So, in order to use Nero's "Help" functions, you then have to download and install them separately. This is quite silly when the help file download size are less than 3MB in size! With the application installer approaching 200 MB, what's 2 MB among friends!

Nero's web site says leaving out the help files is deliberate "in order to to keep the download file small". Note to Nero: the download file is already huge...so please just add the help files.

The bloat comes in many forms, from a CD cover designer to Nero InCD.

Note 2 to Nero: in these days of rewritable DVDs, 4GB flash drives and inexpensive hard drives, do you really think users would still choose a proprietary format CD/DVD packet writer for archiving or storage?), to Nero Home (which it claims can integrate your media streaming through multiple machines), the download, installation -and, ultimately, the overall experience of this product-- is compromised by a large volume of marginally useful applications that detract from what Nero does well: create and reformat data for optical media. Take the time to select the "custom" install option, and leave out those apps you don't plan to use.

(2) Lots of waiting time. Nero installation takes a *long* time. Not a real issue if you only have to go through the process once. But: on a clean Windows XP machine, I had to go through it twice (due to some errors that crept up, directly related to the bloat described above and the Windows resource issues described below).

(3) Slow to launch once installed. It takes a long time for Nero Version 8 applications to launch. Even if you have a fast processor and abundant memory: after you decide to launch the application, be prepared to wait before you start to rip and burn.

(4) Unexplained Windows resource drain. Nero Version 8 runs a background process called "NMIndexingService.exe" This process runs whether whether you've launched Nero or not. When other applications do this, it's often called malware. While this can be disabled by advanced Windows users using the msconfig tool, there's no obvious utility to this service, and no excuse for it being hidden deep in Windows. Shame on Nero for this. Nero's email response to a question about this I submitted took two weeks to arrive. The recommended a reinstall of Nero...but first you have to download a separate utility called "Nero Clean Tool" and then reinstall that. Just as with the help files: an effective uninstaller routine should be a given for modern Windows applications.

(5) For as widely used as Nero products are, their support website is remarkably uninformative.

-Once you get past all this, once installed and launched Nero 8 still is great program for authoring CD/DVDs and ripping MP3s. But the issues above are hugely distracting, and Nero should have more respect for its customers than to make them jump through these hurdles.

-Nero needs to get back to basics, trim the fat, and offer customers what they really want, and what it does best: sound, fast CD/DVD writing. Nero should include the help files, discard the less useful components, and respect users' Windows resources when they aren't engaged in its basic ripping and recording.

-If you have a stable version of an earlier version: Don't move to Version 8.

69 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Beware of installing over version 7, November 9, 2007

By	MRGillette - See all my reviews

Not necessarily a slam to Nero, but be sure to do a clean install before installing new version. (I have Windows Vista OS). When I had Nero automatically uninstall v.7, it left all of the files in the registry, thus corrupting the install of v.8. This led to the message "microsoft visual c++ runtime library" ..."THIS APPLICATION HAS REQUESTED RUNTIME TO TERMINATE IN AN UNUSUAL WAY"...program would not work...Forget support...there is no USA support phone # that I could find, either free or toll. Even when I uninstalled v.8, all of the registry files were still in the registry. I manually cleaned out all the version 7 & 8 files from the registry(BE VERY CAREFUL) and reinstalled Version8. Everything seems to be working fine...haven't looked at all the features yet...NEVER BUY ROXIO!