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.