Nero 7 Ultra Edition - Enhanced

[Seekermeister]

I have Nero 6 OEM, which came with my optical drives, but I noticed that CompUSA has this newer version available for $40. But, looking at the features, I see nothing too compelling. It has Showtime, but so does Nero 6. However, it requires buying another plugin to use it, and I already have PowerDVD, which seems fine.

It has Media Home, which appears to have to do with viewing TV from a tuner, but I have WinTV200, so this doesn't seem terribly interesting. Nero 6 has this also, but when I opened it, it insisted on setting some folders for sharing, which I have no desire for, so I never got any farther with it.

What it comes down to, is that I see no added features that I want, and all that's left is whether there is something about the basic burning functions that would make it worthwhile? Can someone make a comparison for me?

 

[Lemon law]

I don't know if this sheds any light or not---but I recently downloaded a microsoft utility to see if my wife's computer was vista ready.
Hardware wise, it at least met vista minimum requirements---but there was quite a bit of software that needed to be updated to vista
versions. On the software list was nearly the entire Nero 6 OEM version as needing to be upgraded to a vista ready versions.

While I may advocate until I am blue in the face that its a nero responsibility to provide such upgrades to vista free of charge, I somehow
doubt nero would pay any attention to my opinions---and that their upgrade policy may be to charge. Nor for that matter am I sure that that
is the issue---but I am raising it as a possible explanation.---hopefully someone more knowledgeable about nero will come to clarify if my
hypothesis holds any water.

 

[Seekermeister]

After Googling on this, it refreshed my memory that alot of people has had problems with it. Since I'm never going to install Vista, I don't think that there is any reason to spend the money.

 

[mzkhadir]

MediaHome is for streaming to other computers from where you have Nero installed. Its like a media server from nero to share you audio, video and photos.

 

[Aikouka]

Nero 7 was complete garbage when I tried it. Nero 6 never gave me any issues, but Nero 7 completely locked up my drives on multiple ocassions and when I finally got fed up and uninstalled it, it completely wrecked the windows sound subsystem. The only fix for that mess-up was a complete reinstall of Windows.

Stick with 6.

 

[bruceb]

I agree .. stay with Nero 6 Utra Edition 6.6.0.0
As to free upgrades from Nero .. if you bought the Ultra Suite
in a Retail Store it usually comes with Lifetime Free Upgrades
As to Nero 7 .. very bloated & has some skipping when doing audio cd's
Nero 6 did not have this problem ... you can verify this with a Google Search