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Posted November 1st, 2008 at 4:10am by tdinc

This is just a rant....
Seriously, Nero "used to be" a pretty good piece of burning software. I stopped using it along time ago when Free open source options became available that are much better in Ripping burning CD's DVD's ans the like..etc..etc.

I happened to notice today that Nero's latest software is 370 MB!!!!!!

what are they putting in there?>

how sad...........

rant over......

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	that has to be a rhetorical question - as you know what is/has happened to it - its been getting crappier and over bloated which each new release
	Posted November 1st, 2008 at 6:39pm by Dark Atheist

	I don't like the new nero either. It is more bloat then anything. Filled with 90% of useless stuff.
	Posted November 1st, 2008 at 6:41pm by Johnny

You forgot to rant about the frequent 100-200 MB updates.

I stayed with Nero 6 even though I've had chances to upgarde for next to nothing.

Nero is no longer a burning package, it is now a multimedia processing suite.

I actually do end up using a lot of the features occasionally so I don't mind that much. But I still end up going to other packages for high end video editing.

They should have stopped at V6 or even 5. They have sadly lost their perspective. Jack of all trades, master of none has bloated them.

Posted November 1st, 2008 at 7:10pm by LeeJend LeeJend is offline

	i use megui for encoding to x264/avi, dvd rebuilder for dvds and imgburn to make discs, all well under neros bloated size
	Posted November 2nd, 2008 at 12:26am by Dark Atheist

	personally this is my favorite dvd/cd burning program. http://cdburnerxp.se/
	Posted November 3rd, 2008 at 6:58pm by lancer

	I agree, anything past Nero 6 I won't touch. I tried Nero 6 on Vista back when I was beta testing and it says it was incompatible but I said install anyways and it seemed to work fine. but now I'm back on XP
	Posted November 6th, 2008 at 7:59pm by Admiral Michael

It's being badly managed.

If you rely on new versions of a product for your income you have to keep adding new features to justify the price tag you're asking. This 'business practise' always leads to bloatware and eventually ruin.

Why ruin? The existing customer base gets increasingly unhappy as bugs they come across don't get fixed and are lured into buying the next version or jumping to another similar product to cure their problems. Which of course it don't, they just come across new ones.

Nero isn't the first to fall trap to this roller-coaster of a disaster. Just ask Norton/PartitionMagic/Ghost/MSOffice users. Ask any person who's been using software for over 20 years. This is nothing new.

What's the alternative for Nero?
To develop a support model role. This is where you offer various degrees of the product. Beginners, Serious and professional users, etc.

You then keep fixing the bugs in these pieces of software, add support for new hardware, etc. and the customer pays a small yearly charge for support. Once you get a customer on this gravy train, you charge a little more if the customer wants to come off and then jump back on.

This way you get regular yearly income and your bank is happy. The customer is happy as the product gets better and the customer only pays for what they want. Not the non-essential rubbish.

One nice feature this model gives us is that the company keeps the software bug free and isn't dropped as soon as a new OS comes out. The company has to adopt (nah is forced into) the frame of mind of thinking first about keeping their existing customers happy (imagine that?) and not changing the damn product just because it thinks this will attract new customers.

This way of doing software works as Accounting software packages has been using this model for decades...

Posted November 10th, 2008 at 10:54am by profquatermass profquatermass is offline

	imgburn ftw!!!!!!
	Posted November 11th, 2008 at 3:19pm by Dark Atheist

	i use nero 7..easy make your own dvd..but for iso and stuff magiciso...
	Posted November 12th, 2008 at 3:45am by failurbydesign

	bloat? I guess the custom install was missed....install what you want
	Posted November 27th, 2008 at 9:53am by onebyside

	and what about all the codecs and crap it installs when you just select the burning app, which in turn can have effects on other codecs on the system, why does a burning app need codecs? i would call that bloat
	Posted November 29th, 2008 at 10:09am by Dark Atheist

	I've never liked NEro. The interface always felt awkward to me. I used MediaPlayer or Acoustica, but my burning needs were usually simple: "how many tunes can we squeeze onto this one?" So..I shall creep back & let u experts wrangle it out.... U can keep the .02 tho... ~Raven
	Posted December 13th, 2008 at 6:25am by PaisleyRaven