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Summary: This software does not work
Review: Their Tech Support is terrible. You must e-mail them only and they do not respond. I have submitted a question and been waiting for over 4 days and have heard absolutely nothing from them. The DVD burn portion flat out does not work. I constantly get error messages. Tried Sonic MYdvd and had no problems.
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Summary: Useless if you have Windows XP on your computer
Review: I can echo the comments of the other purchasers regarding the problems with Roxio if you have Windows. I, too, would have given it zero stars, if possible. I have spent an inordinate amount of my time trying to get Roxio 6.0 platinum to work properly with XP. (I have been told that there are compatibility problems in general between Microsoft products and Roxio). Roxio gives you free service for 90 days but then you are on your own--unless you want to pay $35 per call (and the call is on YOUR tab). Their discussion groups are largely the blind leading the blind. I am looking for a new software.
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Summary: All things considered, it's average
Review: This is fine for burning data to DVDs. It has the same basic functionality as the two prior versions of the product. Drag + Drop, then burn to a disc. Quite simple if you know what you are doing, but hardly worth the cost of upgrading since it adds no new functionality. The problems start when you want to create a video DVD. The "DVD Builder" is easy to use, but very limited in terms of what it can achieve. There are few choices to fine tune or optimize the video, and the final quality (even at the highest settings) is quite poor in any scene with low brightness. Likewise even in normal scenes, static background areas tend to pixelate. So while baseline-functional, no matter how good the quality of your sources, the video quality of the DVD leaves much to be desired.
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Summary: Don't Buy it - Verification Errors
Review: I've been using version 5 and bought 6 on a year-end sale. Every CD and DVD I've written with it have ended up with "verify" errors (what is written does not match the source file(s). In one case it was only one mp3 file that was being written, and I did a binary comparison of the original versus cd version. 11 bytes were changed in two different places. I tried again, and the exact same bytes were changed again - certainly not a random error! With the DVD's I've tried, same thing - the copies don't match the originals. I went back to version 5, which works fine with exactly the same CD and DVD writers.
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Summary: Don't waste your money!
Review: I've been using Roxio's Easy CD/DVD Creator 6 for sometime now and have not been able to get the company to fix their bugs within the DVD Builder portion of the product. I use this product frequently for other projects and it works fairly well but the DVD Builder is full of bugs. I purchased the product because of DVD Builder. I already had the previous version and there would have been no reason to upgrade except for DVD Builder. I would not recommend this product to anyone.
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Summary: tons of problems
Review: I liked the way it worked, when it worked. I upgraded to to XP and the program will not run. Roxio is of no help. Stay away.
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Summary: This software doesn't work
Review: I recently purchased the Easy CD & DVD creator 6 from COSTCO and I'm returning it for a refund. I bought a Panasonic palmcorder with miniDV cassettes with the hopes that I could transfer the video to DVD/CD. I bought Roxio's software because I've heard it is reputable and I've used their CD creator in the past with great success, but this package that I bought is just junk! It simply doesn't work. I have a Compaq P4 2.66GHz with 512mb sdram, a CD/DVD writer, etc, etc, and this computer works very well in all other aspects. The software won't recognize that I've connected a camcorder to it, plain and simple. I've been doing some checking into this software and there appears to be a lot of problems with this software and I've read many, many unfavorable reviews/customer feedback comments with a full range of problems. This really sucks because most people are screwed when they buy software because of the return policies in place--you're stuck with it. Not so with COSTCO. I recommend buying software through them if possible so as to avoid this problem.
To summarize: This software is crap and you should demand a refund.
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Summary: Software does not work
Review: I bought this software (Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 Platinum Edition
by Roxio) and installed it and it doesn't work. I won't recognize any of my CD drives to burn music to and most importantly, it doesn't recognize that my palmcorder has been attached to it. I have a Compaq P4 2.66GHz with XP and a new Panasonic palmcorder with miniDV cassettes and I can't get this damn program to work. I'm returning it and you should too if it's not too late. You can return this software if you purchase it at COSTCO, otherwise you're screwed. Run from this software as fast as you can. A definite don't buy!
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Summary: Phone's home a lot(spyware?),won't burn copy protected DVDs!
Review: I got this software bundled with the Plextor PX-708A DVD burner (very good price/service from newegg.com I don't mind saying, and I'm not affiliated with them). Well the first thing I noticed upon installing this software is that it constantly tries to "phone home", meaning it tries to contact Roxio from your computer. Fortunately I run Zone Alarm as my personal firewall and I have to explicitly allow any new program to access the internet from my box, so sorry Roxio, go spy on someone else's user habits. BTW, I mean *constantly*, it was really ridiculous.The major reason I give this piece o' junk 1 star is that it doesn't copy protected DVDs! What in the nine h*lls does Roxio think I bought a DVD burner for in the first place!?!? I have a huge collection that someone could walk off with in about 30 seconds and I'd be out over 1000 bones. Apparently Roxio forgot what "fair use" of a product means while they were ring-kissing and boot-licking to the MPAA. Now I have to go spend another 80 or so just to get some functionality out of my expensive new toy. I will never buy a Roxio product in my life.
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Summary: Major scare
Review: After I installed this software on my XP computer over last weekend, I found that my hard drives assignments were completing changed and I was not able to run my applications. Hidden partitions also showed up as newly assigned drives. Luckily I was hands-on with computer enough to go to the maintainance mode and correct the problems. When I tried to compile new projects for data backup , the program hanged numerous times. What's worst was that not all data were written on the disc and the program did not flag any warnings.
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