CompUSA - DVD burner for $99 AR w/ Roxio purchase

[Sept1967]

Probably meant to say:

"All DVD+R/+RW drives are AT LEAST 2.4x" in speed.

 

[jamesd1343]

FYI, maximum pc tested a beta of roxio 6 vs nero and it kiked its a$$ in performance

 

[Tnvolsfan]

Who kicked who's a$$??

 

[AU Tiger]

EZCD6 topped Nero in the benchmarks. Supposedly it is a great improvement on 5. I refuse to spend the money to find out for myself. Nero is working fine for me.

 

[ir0nw0lf]

EZCDC6 is also a 700+ MB bloated install (they take lessons from Microsoft??), from what a friend told me after installing it. Menu system sucks as well. Screw the tests that might show it to be faster. It still don't burn bin/cue's. Nero is contantly pumping out new versions of Nero with added features, etc., much faster than Roxio. It's also been shown that EZCDC6 released to retail a supposed buggy-as-sin beta version and left the beta testers totally in the dark. Most beta testers would never have approved of the build that went retail, it obviously seems Roxio was trying to shovel the program out the door before someone else. That or they no QA...

Nero it is still for me. Just say "NO" to EZCDC6.

 

[ShotgunSi]

Lets just say that Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 is a product NOT intended for the Anandtech crowd. Roxio's primary customer base is the "Average Joe" who likes pretty menus and easy to use software. 99.9% of Anandtech's crowd will be using other software such as Nero (me included). I personally only have Eazy 6, installed on my work computer for testing purposes only. It actually has some cool features, that I like though.
As far as bin/cue support, yes it doesn't support those files types. But once again read my post above, how many of the average joe users even know what bin/cue files are?

 

[RyogaHibiki]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the -R/-RW DVD drives alot more popular/widespread than the DVD+R/+RW drives? Who's winning the dvd format war?
I would hate to invest in a the "betamax" of dvd recorders.

Originally posted by: SpongeBobPalmBay
CompUSA - DVD burner for $99 w/ Roxio purchase -
B&M only - sale start Sunday - March 2nd.


Easy CD and DVD Creator - $99.99 ($20 rebate avail. for 'upgrades')

+ Get a DVD+R/+RW drive for $99 with purchase of above (model - A299915 ?) - $279.99 - $50 instant - $50 mfr. rebate - $80 CompUsA rebate... =$99.

Enjoy!

 

[Mrburns2007]

Roxio 6 is actually pretty good, it has some new features and it's pretty stable but it's still pretty bloated for a cd burning app. Nero 6 better have data spanning and an improved InCD.




I think both formats will survive cause they both do the same thing. Burn a DVD in either plus or minus and it will play back on most DVD players so there really shouldn't be any problems. The plus media is also coming down in price and is about the same as the minus format.

 

[c627627]

Had a chance to install version 6 on a dual boot Windows XP / Windows Me computer.

While it appeared stable under Windows XP, when I installed it under Windows Me, not only did the program itself have problems, but the entire operating system was so badly damaged, I had to restore it from a Drive Image backup.

It was eerily reminiscent of the initial release of version 5 which had a fatal flaw of actually being able to destroy any Windows 2000 machine it was installed on (anyone remember that fiasco?)

 

[Richardito]

Originally posted by: c627627
Had a chance to install version 6 on a dual boot Windows XP / Windows Me computer.

While it appeared stable under Windows XP, when I installed it under Windows Me, not only did the program itself have problems, but the entire operating system was so badly damaged, I had to restore it from a Drive Image backup.

It was eerily reminiscent of the initial release of version 5 which had a fatal flaw of actually being able to destroy any Windows 2000 machine it was installed on (anyone remember that fiasco?)

That older version also messes up the system if you use Win XP, which is based on 2000.

 

[QSnexus]

I wonder how many systems Nero has screwed up 😉. That program is just great.

 

[c627627]

I agree that Nero is safer. I hope they improve the interface when Nero 6 comes out which is where Easy CD Creator has them beat.

In all fairness, Easy CD Creator version 6 works nicely under Windows XP. However, this new version 6 appears to be capable of causing severe damage to Windows 98/Me systems so it depends what OS you're running.