Why I buy this one ?
- Nero Mobile – Transforms your mobile phone into a mobile media center
- Nero Sipps – Nero’s VoIP solution offering free PC-to-PC calling
- Full MP3 Support
- TV Recording – Record your favorite TV programs
- Blu-ray & HD DVD Disc Data Recording

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What our customer's say!

"worst customer service ever !!!!", I purchased nero 8. It doesn't install properly and they have the worst customer service I have ever experienced. Over two weeks to get a response to your tech question, or you get to pay $1.29 per minute. I called their regular customer service line and waited on hold until they closed.

"Nero Burning Rom is the best burner I have used", As the title says the Burning Rom program is why I purchased this suite when I already had a "Lite" version of Nero Express. I have used the full version back when it was version 6 and really like the dual directory drag and drop feature. It makes backups of hundreds of digital images very quick and easy.

The install on this utility suite is painfully slow. You will most likely think the system locked up but be patient, very patient and the program will have the entire suite of utilities installed. The program says it will take several minutes but it was almost 40 minutes before it was done.

The package I received is out of date and there is a 7.10.?.? update available for download. You will need a broadband connection since it is packaged as one large 300mb download. Just minutes if you have broadband but over 20 hours if you use a modem like I do.

Customer Service did good and answered my query in about a day regarding the download. The large file is all that is available for Nero 7 Ultra. It was possible to reduce the 300mb to around 220mb using the built-in update program but I can not stay connected for over 20 hours to download a file. They should be a bit more reasonable about that. A lot of folks only have 56k modems to the internet. The slow lane on the super highway I'm afraid.

How difficult is it for them to break it up into several compressed files for downloading???

In closing I will say that the program suite is worth the money but there are issues that you as the consumer should be aware of. I avoided Nero 8 because of the reviews here. So far I am pleased to report I have no bugs with the software as it is installed. The simple media player is actually quite good and better than the two utilities I have from other software.

Good Luck and remember the install is slowwwww!

"German software is not like German beer or German cars, apparently", I'm glad I got this garbage for free from my workplace with a Not For Resale sample instead of spending money on it. WOW.

All I want to do is burn nice CD's and DVD's and make Lightscribe labels on them. Lightscribe looked like such a cool feature. That's it. Not complicated, right? I used to use an older version of Nero that worked really well (back with version 3, I think) so I tried the latest version. Big mistake.

First, it installed over a DOZEN programs automatically. I actually wanted three of them and the others were either worthless, buggy, or bloated trash of the worst ilk. Think Microsoft Office level bloat, plus Quicktime/RealPlayer style viral invasiveness. It's a truly asinine, take-over-your-system, buggy, fat blob of really bad software. It's set to make itself the default program for darn near everything. Did you have iTunes for your music? Not anymore. Did you like Windows Media Player to play your videos? Not anymore. Nero will take them all over, and install a search bot to slow down your system constantly plus seven programs that practically no one will ever use. Do you need to edit .wav files on a regular basis? Me neither, so please don't install a wav editor program, Nero. I don't want it. I didn't ask for it, and you didn't even ask me if I wanted it. Yes, it's true that these settings are modifiable but I am sick and tired of presumptive companies trying to insinuate themselves all over my computer without asking. It's even worse when their product is garbage.

So before I knew it, I had a huge pile of unwanted programs, with file types all messed up and another dumb search box on my tool bar. Man, what a bad omen.

Ever the optimist, I figured "well, if it works well, I'll just uninstall what I don't want and everything will be fine."

Sure, theoretically. Except that uninstallation is a pain, updates are unbelievably slow and error-prone, and the software is wickedly hard to use.

Nero 7 wasn't Vista compatible when I installed it, so I had to go download the update. Fair enough, since Vista is pretty new and I got the disc a few months ago. Then I found that the ONLY way to update the software is to download the whole suite of bloated programs in FULL! It's 337 MB, for God's Sake! I have a cable internet connection and it still took literally HOURS to get the update. Want to burn a quick CD before taking off on that drive to dad's house? Forget it!

So the next day, I finally had the update downloaded. I ran it, and it informed me that it had to completely uninstall the just-installed software in order to update. Wow. So I clicked "continue," and then when my system rebooted, guess what? A Nero error message popped up (in English, thankfully - more on that later) saying that since Nero wasn't installed on my computer, I couldn't run the update program. Am I taking crazy pills? Are you serious? I didn't know what to do so I re-installed everything from the disc and tried again. For whatever reason, it worked the second time.

Next up, labeling a disc (thankfully, Nero Burning ROM did burn a CD nicely). Figuring out how to make a simple Lightscribe label was just mind-blowing. The default templates make no sense whatsoever. Just getting a readable label out of my burner wasted two entire afternoons and a half dozen blank discs. I know I'm not Bill Gates, but I built my computer and installed my software myself so I'm not a complete rube. Yet I'm still discovering new ways that Nero messes up labels. The default audio disc template gives you a half inch band of usable space around the middle of the disc. You can put more text on the screen, but it won't print, so you're wasting your time. Oh, and the standard font? It's completely unreadable on a Lightscribe disc. Literally - when you click on the disc surface to type some words, the default text settings will result in the final disc being unreadable. God help you if you'd like a track listing printed on the disc. Half the fonts don't line up properly for some reason. You can see that they don't line up when you hit the "print preview" button and your text is all cut up, but before that step, it shows them wrong on the main screen. Why is the standard font unreadable? Why is the default template limited to a tiny strip of text, with no easy way to change it? Seriously, it's kind of ridiculous. Lay off the Oktoberfest celebrations until *after* your software is done, OK Hans?

I bring up the German thing because I kept getting error messages in German. Some were English, some not. My computer is set for American English and there's no reason Nero should spout German errors at me, but it did. I have nothing against the German language, but I can't read it. Is it unreasonable to ask for messages in a language I can read?

I know this review is colored by my frustration with this software, so I apologize. My internal unhappiness meter went off the chart after the sixth wasted Lightscribe disc.
What Nero project manager saw this setup, with its 14 separate modules, clumsy interface, horrible update process, and bug-filled operation and said "THIS is the program of the future! Let's release it at once!"

In conclusion, "Nero = yuck."

"Easier to burn CD's than Windows Vista.", Great product to have if you have Windows Vista. The burning software works faster and better than the Vista Utility.

"sucks", I didnt get what i ordered, they sent me the essentials cd not the program itself, i was very dissapointed, but they just dont want to do anything about this,
i returned it,
but i will not order from this person again.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"would of stayed with earlier version", So, I did not listen to the other reviews about Nero 7. I did find it more difficult to load. Did not let me customize-had to load features that I will never use. It does do a great job for Dvds, but I found it easier to use Roxio for backing up my music cds. I would of stayed with an earlier version (6), if it wasn't for Microsoft vista not supporting version 6.

"Great program although a little buggy", I bought this program so I could put my home videos on DVD. It works very well, allowing you to trim scenes and add your own chapter points wherever you wish. It also comes with a wide variety of picture and audio tools you can use. The only problems I had were when I tried to update it online. I ran into errors and the program appeared to delete itself and not install the new version. I used Windows restore function to go back to where I had originally installed the program and had no problems. I also had one error message when I installed from the disc. The program appeared to be looking for an high-def capable DVD-ROM drive. I just clicked to continue and the program finished installing without any problems.

"Not very impressive so far", I have ready many reviews and thought I was ready to use this product. So I
bought this last week. I tried burning a slide show to a dvd disc, I got a burn faild message. I removed and reinstalled the software and tried burning again and still failed. Tech support recommended updating my firmware for my recorder and there is no guaranteed that it will fix the problem. I can't get more advice until I do this update. I am not that good with computers so I had to read up what's a firmware is and then tried to find an update for my SONY DVD+-RW DW-Q58A version uds2. I gave up after 2 hours. Does anyone know where I can find the new version to download? and what is the newest version? This product is not for beginners. I will write more if I ever get to use this product.

"Lousy software, no support", In fairness to Nero, I'll mention up front that I'm probably not their typical user. I bought the product because I really liked the backup program in Nero 6, but when I replaced my PC with one running Vista, Nero 6 wouldn't install on it. I use Nero ShowTime (for watching DVDs) and Express (for burning CDs and DVDs) too, but not much else.

First, the only piece I've got no complaints about is the CD/DVD burning. It's obviously the core of the suite and if Nero didn't make that work, nobody would buy the product. Of course, they couldn't price it nearly as high as they do without saying it had a lot of other features - making them work is evidently less important to them. As another reviewer mentioned, if this is all you want it for, buy away, but you could probably get something else to do the job for a lot less.

As for Nero BackItUp, I am amazed that a program could get so bad so quickly. The version in Nero 6 I'd rate 9 out of 10 for my purposes. In the new version, jobs you disable so they won't run, run anyway. The log file used to contain about 1/3 of a screen full of messages if the backup went OK, and there was no other practical way to tell if the backup had run OK. There is still no other good way to see if a backup ran correctly, but now the log file can run on for 40 pages after a single backup. When I back up My Documents, Nero insists on following the shortcuts to My Music and My Pictures that it finds there and backing up those as well. It gives no indication it's going to do this until the backup is running. Often I'll get messages saying that a file that existed when I first created the backup job is no longer there. Well, that's why I told you what FOLDERS to back up and not what files, because I knew I'd be adding and deleting files over time. When this happens, I usually get several identical messages (all indicating the same file). Not sure if this means that there were actually multiple files deleted and they only felt like giving me the one name, or what. Also, like Windows Explorer, at the top of the folder hierarchy is an entry called "Desktop", in addition to the folder farther down in the hierarchy which contains the actual files which reside on a specific user's desktop. Unfortunately, Nero confuses the two, so if you ask it to back up the files on your Desktop, it thinks you mean "back up ANY FILE YOU CAN FIND, ANYWHERE".

As for support, talking to yourself would be more productive. I used their web support feature to request help on two of the bugs I found. I got back automated responses saying that they had received my requests and would be in touch. In one of those cases, that was the last I heard from them. On the issue of the Desktop backup, we went back and forth several times in email, and I never got the impression they were doing more than vamping until I got frustrated and gave up. First they wanted screen shots. OK, that's not unreasonable. Then they wanted me to install the latest updates. OK, it's not likely that they accidentally fixed the problem, thus explaining why they'd have no mention of it in their release notes, but tried it. Then they wanted logs from the backup job. Well,if I can't get past the problem with the user interface to create a backup job, how can I then run the backup job to get you a log? And if I could, how would it tell you anything useful? Finally, they just gave me an answer that was patently false and told me to let them know if I had further inquiries. My further inquiries were ignored. The company is HQ'd in Germany, so some of the issues might be language related, but it's lousy support no matter how look at it.

As for ShowTime, frequently when I click a button (FF, pause, etc.) the audio will just die and the only way I can get it going again is to restart the program.

In conclusion, if you're willing to pay what they're asking and all you want to do is write CDs and DVDs, go right ahead. If you're not on Vista and can find a copy of Nero 6, do that. If you're interested in any of Nero's "accessories", get the free trial and test all the functions you'll use thoroughly. If you want support for anything, maybe you should try learning German.

"Bloatware - buy something else", Early versions of Nero were great: simple, streamlined, and fast. Whatever happened? Nero raised its price substantially and piled on "features" that you don't want or need. It takes forever to install, cluing you in that it's going to hog your computer resources. It also uninstalls any previous version of Nero, so there's no going back (it's not possible to buy or download an older version). Even if you use "custom install," you cannot prevent its installation of "Nero Scout," a media search engine that displaced other (more useful) search engines (like Google desktop) that you might have already been using.
There are much simpler programs available, some for much less, that offer the same core features. Buy one.