NTI CD Maker 6 Platinum 6

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Summary: Nero had me burned
Review: I needed something that would handle SVCD better than Roxio and everyone and their brother directed me to Nero. Nero made me a coaster for every two good burns. So I downloaded six other software trials from the web and ran the month out on each of them. Within two days of using version 6 of NTI CD Maker I had deleted all other burners on my machine and ordered the serial number. Absurdly easy interface, extremely stable operation even on an old machine (P500 with a 8x burner running win98) and an inital software conflict was resolved by the program's installation interface. I have no idea why this isn't famous. Buy it and love it.

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Summary: gold versus platinum?
Review: I used the NTI cd maker gold for some time and all I have to say is that it created more problems than burns. I found especially annoying the "smart choice" option that the software prompts you to everytime you try to burn a media: the program asks you (in practice forces you most of the times) to 'burn' to a temporary file on the HD instead of performing a physical burn if your data are less than the media (CD/DVD) size (ie burn 1Gb data on a DVD ended into 1Gb of HD space and a blank media). I am probably too dumb to avoid this "smart choices" or to tampering around the few setting options to avoid them. So you may end up with a blank media, being also asked to create a label for it(how dumb is that?!?), wasted time and HD space. if this is the NTI "Gold", it didn't convince me to buy the NTI Platinum. I got the roxio easycd/dvd creator and tada, my burned dvd.

Rating:
Summary: gold versus platinum?
Review: I used the NTI cd maker gold for some time and all I have to say is that it created more problems than burns. I found especially annoying the "smart choice" option that the software prompts you to everytime you try to burn a media: the program asks you (in practice forces you most of the times) to 'burn' to a temporary file on the HD instead of performing a physical burn if your data are less than the media (CD/DVD) size (ie burn 1Gb data on a DVD ended into 1Gb of HD space and a blank media). I am probably too dumb to avoid this "smart choices" or to tampering around the few setting options to avoid them. So you may end up with a blank media, being also asked to create a label for it(how dumb is that?!?), wasted time and HD space. if this is the NTI "Gold", it didn't convince me to buy the NTI Platinum. I got the roxio easycd/dvd creator and tada, my burned dvd.