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Nero Releases Nero 9 - Demo Now Available

PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:49 am
by Ian
Just like the subject says... Nero 9 has been released.

http://www.cdrlabs.com/News/nero-simpli ... ero-9.html

Some of the new stuff:

Fast, easy, and convenient user interface

With Nero 9, the company responded to consumer requests for an enhanced, easy-to-use and convenient user interface. The widely used Nero StartSmart intuitive command center, now integrates new playback, ripping, burning, copying and backup functions with one-click tabs for quick and easy completion of digital tasks. In addition, Nero StartSmart now offers Autobackup, an automatic backup function accessed directly through Nero StartSmart one-click tabs. Consumers will also appreciate new file playback capabilities within Nero StartSmart for music, videos and photos, and ability to create playlists. Furthermore, Nero StartSmart now integrates Gracenote® music recognition service providing song and artist information for audio files.

Superior High Definition

Capture video from AVCHD camcorders and easily create stunning movies with 3D animated menu templates for a professional presentation. New tape-scan feature allows quick and easy previews and scene selections from digital (DV) or high-definition videos (HDV) for the seamless import of video into creative projects, saving time and hard drive space. Easily burn high definition projects with high definition menu templates to AVCHD Disc using standard recordable DVD media - save time and ensure quality with Nero's SmartEncoding for AVCHD. In addition, Nero now offers Blu-ray Disc Authoring Plug-in online enabling high-definition menu authoring and burning of HD video to Blu-ray Disc, ensuring playback on Playstation® 3 and other Blu-ray Disc players.
Enhanced and newly designed multimedia player
Nero 9's multimedia player, Nero ShowTime, now incorporates great usability with a new look and playback design as well as convenient docking and stand-by modes of both the browser window and playlists. Great new media and playlist handling will make users simply enjoy playback of their digital content. The best-of-breed playback options now include Gracenote® music services providing accurate song and artist information as well as album art, shuffle playback for playlist and audio CD tracks plus support for latest digital formats.

New Video Editing Options

Nero 9 provides highly enhanced yet easy to use video editing tools to allow for greater personalization of home videos and slideshows. The new Ad Spotter detects and removes commercials from a movie and joins the movie content pieces seamlessly together. The new Music Grabber feature identifies music clips in a movie or music video and automatically extracts the audio, to save as MP3 and add to playlist. The new Movie Wizard allows creativity with an easy-to-use library of templates including themes for special occasions like birthdays, holidays and weddings, plus soundtracks and special effects.

Enhanced Live TV experience

Providing consumers with a great new TV experience for their PC, Nero Live is a new addition to Nero 9 for the viewing of high-quality live TV on the PC. As a stand-alone application or to enhance Windows Media Center, Nero Live makes it easy to watch live TV/HDTV, record TV shows, watch two channels at once with Picture-in-Picture capabilities, time shift for up to 60-minutes, and listen to DVB radio.

Autobackup and Data Protection

Nero listened to consumers and integrated even more convenient and easy tools to protect valuable memories, confidential data and safeguard against system crashes, natural disasters or even human error. The new Autobackup feature in Nero 9 makes it easy for consumers to backup digital entertainment content from their PCs including files, folders, drives, and even the entire system via a simple wizard interface that leads consumers through a scheduling process for backing up and saving content - offline or online. Also offered with Nero 9 is Nero BackItUp 4 which allows consumers to protect against a system crash or accidental loss of important data by providing easy disaster recovery and backup password protection for extra security. With Nero RescueAgent technology integrated into Nero 9, safely and securely recover data from damaged or scratched discs, hard drives, USB and flash sticks, and other memory devices.

Re: Nero Releases Nero 9 - Demo Now Available

PostPosted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:50 am
by Ian
Here's the trial version if you'd like to try it out:

http://www.nero.com/eng/downloads-nero9-trial.php

Re: Nero Releases Nero 9 - Demo Now Available

PostPosted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:33 pm
by SithTracy
No thanks... I tried out v7.x and v8.x hoping they would eventually get it working... Looks like they are going with giving the illusion that a new version number is going to be better... nah, it's just bloated and useless anymore... folks should save their money and donate a few bucks to Lightning UK for ImgBurn.

Re: Nero Releases Nero 9 - Demo Now Available

PostPosted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 2:04 pm
by CowboySlim
Roger that, I installed 7 & 8 after getting them on those double rebate, $0 AMIRs, from Fry's and went back to 6. I'll do the same with 9, eventually, if they have $0, AMIRs.

Re: Nero Releases Nero 9 - Demo Now Available

PostPosted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 2:04 pm
by Ian
Just a quick heads up...

There is a bug in the installer for Nero 9. If you install Nero 9, you cannot install any other Nero products.

Re: Nero Releases Nero 9 - Demo Now Available

PostPosted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:17 pm
by SithTracy
Ian wrote:There is a bug in the installer for Nero 9. If you install Nero 9, you cannot install any other Nero products.


Wow, heck of a start for this piece of rubbish. :-^

Re: Nero Releases Nero 9 - Demo Now Available

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:09 pm
by maiki
I didn't notice any improvement in 8 over 7.

Sure not interested in the BS "interface enhancements", "StartSmart" (which I never install), "Nero Home", or any of that garbage.

And "Nero Scout" is really a pain, in that you cannot choose not to install it.

Are there any real improvements in Nero Recode?

How about in Nero Digital audio encoding?

Re: Nero Releases Nero 9 - Demo Now Available

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:10 pm
by kincaid
Sadly, I am so utterly not impressed or interested in this insanely enormous installation that takes an ungodly amount of time to install. I did install this monstrosity. It took forever and I ended up having issues playing back discs with PowerDVD so I wiped it off my system and my problem vanished. I guess I'll stick with Nero 8 when I'm not just using other products as a replacement. I've used Nero since before XP was released and this is a sad day for me. I had issues with Nero 8's bloat and other problems but was able to overlook them. Nero 9 has put the last nail in the coffin for me. :(

Re: Nero Releases Nero 9 - Demo Now Available

PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 6:01 pm
by margrave
Wow, Ahead must really be concerned for their customers. Every version since 6 has had complaints about bugs and bloatware and they just ignore them and keep making it worse . What are they thinking ?

Re: Nero Releases Nero 9 - Demo Now Available

PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:23 am
by Justin42
Wow, this is really too bad. I have my Black Friday traditional free-after-rebate copy of Nero 9 sitting in my cart at Fry's but it seems like no one has anything good to say about it..

That said I have both Nero 7 and Nero 8 that I have NEVER installed... not sure if I should get 9... or if they'll clean it up.