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
NTI Dragon Burn
CD and DVD burning software.
Version: 4.5.0.15
Don't think much of NTI - NeoX360
From what I have seen NTI on PC is not the same as on the Mac. What you described for the PC version describes Roxio Easy CD/Media Creator to the tee. 900 programs all for burning various things. It is pathetic. I use Nero 6 on the PC, while it is still somewhat modular it is not near as bad as Roxio. I would also say give this a go if you are looking for something other then toast, which personally I feel is the best (except for 10).Reply to This
Sunday, February 15 2009 @ 09:42 AM PST