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Feedback Summary:
| Version 4.1.14: | |||||
| Overall Rating: |   (3.8) |
Features: | (4.7) |
Support: | (3.8) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (4.0) |
Price: | (4.7) |
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At Long Last - Version: 4.5.0.11, 9/25/2009 05:03PM PST
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JDBishop5
For what I have thought was very good reasons, I have been extremely critical of this product several times over the years. This revision has finally earned a high mark in my opinion. It is stable, and works well from the get go. Finally, it is well worth the money. Buy it.
I like it. - Version: 4.5.0.7, 5/26/2009 11:14PM PST
ttrtilley
I chose this program 5 years ago because Toast was too expensive. I got lucky. It is a single integrated program with an easy to use interface that does everything I want except DVD decryption and DVD recompression.
I don't recall ever having to pay for a newer version. NTI are a bit infrequent with new versions but that has not been a problem. The Universal version was very late, but the PowerPC version worked astonishingly well on an Intel Mac (I'm impressed by Rosetta too :-) I'm surprised to see ratings below 4 for this program. I've been using computers on a daily basis since 1965.
I don't recall ever having to pay for a newer version. NTI are a bit infrequent with new versions but that has not been a problem. The Universal version was very late, but the PowerPC version worked astonishingly well on an Intel Mac (I'm impressed by Rosetta too :-) I'm surprised to see ratings below 4 for this program. I've been using computers on a daily basis since 1965.
Don't think much of NTI - Version: 4.5.0.7, 2/15/2009 12:50AM PST
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AJJX
All the PCs that we lease come with a license for NTI burning software, and we provide it because it's essentially "free" (incorporated into the cost of the machine), and it does things that the rather poor Windows XP burning software doesn't do.
However, it's complicated, difficult to understand, comes with multiple programs that all seem to be burning tools and yet are all different, and regularly doesn't do what you'd expect (eg: try and handle an ISO file).
And yet, this apparently is not unusual for PC burning software. But it should not be allowed to pollute a company's Mac solution. Toast regularly gets criticized, not without valid reason, but it still remains the yardstick for Mac burning apps. It bothers me when an app requires a "launcher" app - this app does, just as NTI's PC software does. And yet, from the screenshots on their site, the actual burning UI(s) is no more advanced or developed than Hernansoft's BurnX Free, which tells me that instead of adding depth to the program, they're adding layers; again, following the PC way of things.
It apparently does support some decent features, such as Blu-Ray writing, and Blu-Ray reading on Tiger, and yet I have to say that the feature list is not all that impressive, as there are other products that do the same thing.
I would have to say, by all means give it a go. But:
a) look out for the "creative" licensing scheme that they use and
b) don't expect too much - this is after all first and foremost a PC software company
However, it's complicated, difficult to understand, comes with multiple programs that all seem to be burning tools and yet are all different, and regularly doesn't do what you'd expect (eg: try and handle an ISO file).
And yet, this apparently is not unusual for PC burning software. But it should not be allowed to pollute a company's Mac solution. Toast regularly gets criticized, not without valid reason, but it still remains the yardstick for Mac burning apps. It bothers me when an app requires a "launcher" app - this app does, just as NTI's PC software does. And yet, from the screenshots on their site, the actual burning UI(s) is no more advanced or developed than Hernansoft's BurnX Free, which tells me that instead of adding depth to the program, they're adding layers; again, following the PC way of things.
It apparently does support some decent features, such as Blu-Ray writing, and Blu-Ray reading on Tiger, and yet I have to say that the feature list is not all that impressive, as there are other products that do the same thing.
I would have to say, by all means give it a go. But:
a) look out for the "creative" licensing scheme that they use and
b) don't expect too much - this is after all first and foremost a PC software company
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