I gave Nero 8 a go and found it slow, clumsy and unintuitive, unlike Nero 7. I was particularly disappointed by their failure to add a feature to edit trailers out of DVD's, so I still have to use DVDEdit. What was laughable is that when I started to back up DVD's with Nero 8 it wouldnt allow copying of audio because Dolby is copyrighted. That's a killer for a start. Waste of time, waste of money.

After endless hours attempting to simply capture DV tapes and cut the rubbish out I have given up. My DV tapes of my grandchildren and very extensive foreign travel will languish. unseen - I'm going back to my still cameras [digital + 35mm SLRs]. The on screen instructions aren't even clear. Typical example: set up a file on an external hard drive to save the capture, warts and all, for subsequent editing. What occurs is that the capture disappears into the ether. It's boring continually capturing the same 30 mins of video without any result. Sorry - but somebody started from the wrong end of the design of this one.

Pity I didn't read your comments before I bought Nero 8. The system I am using doesn't have a DVD. I installed on another system only to get half way to have a missing dll file : msxml3.dll. Unable to finish install. This program is HUGE and took over an hour to get half way. It better be worth it!!

The grammar in this article is atrocious. It reeks of MS-Word grammar checking. 

examples:

"The size difference did take us back a bit, as it has already some forum posters"

should read "we were taken aback by the size difference, as were some users who posted in our forums"

"the DVD does contain all the known language versions to man"

should read "the DVD contains versions in all languages known to man"

Oh, and its "suave", not "swarve".

Whoever wrote this article should be fired.

Out of a cannon.

Into the sun.

Sorry to be picky but the app is StartSmart NOT SmartStart....

If you're concerned about all the extra crap that is included with the nero install, simply choose a custom install and deselect everything except the basic "Nero Burning ROM".
There you have your lean mean burning machine with nothing else. Easy, nothing to complain about.

About 3 months ago upgraded to Nero 7 from Nero 6 I customized the install as I didn't have the bloatware that came with it.

All I installed was Starsmart, Nero Vision, Burning ROM, Express & Tools.

I'll agree V7 is slower especially Start Smart takes about 30-40secs to pop-up even on my 2GB DDR, 250GB SATA, AMD64 4000+ 939 rig.

I'll wait for Nero 8 OEM to arrive I ain't paying £40-50 especially since it's new software they'll be bugs for sure. But Nero 7 is good now that it's V7.10.1.0 hasn't crashed yet for me but Nero 6 is gettin old so needed to upgrade total install of V7 on my system according to the system folder is 256mb.

One of my favorite apps in Nero was missing :((. It's Nero Image Drive. It use it to load many image, NRG or ISO. In nero 7, it's only avaiable on xp. Hopefully the fix it in future release.

Swarve?

I am still holding on my nero 6.6.1.15a and refuse to use the bloated whale that nero 7 has become.

I would have thought that v8 would return to being a lean and mean machine, but looking at the download file size (178mb) seems we have another bloated fat whale coming our way :(

and... i just saw it...starting with v8's release they have decided to discontinue maintenance on nero v6 :(
All the nero 6 downloads appear under the "Discontinued Products" heading in the download section.

it seems v6.6.1.15a will be the last one ever published in the 6 series.

waaaaaaaa :(

Since when Blindwrite is a rescue and recover corrupted CD-s, DVD-s ?? I have used it for writing and making backups, but not for recovering corrupted data. What gives? Maybe I am lost somewhere?? Correct me if I'm wrong and explain the recover part in details.
Thank you and best wishes,
Deio

All I need is the old style drag and drop without any wizards. That's why deepburner suits me well. 

IMO certail programs like OS, burning software, music players, video players have to be as lightweight as possible.
I still use winamp 2.9 and video player of choice is media player classic.

I just can't believe how can a software package like this weigh 1.2GB !

Is Nero trying to simply fill each new optical disk format that comes out ? Are we going to see a Nero BD version that takes up 45GB of the promised 50GB available ?
What on Earth has gotten into their minds ? Nero is now the official Office 2007 suite for burning data to optical disks. And if you have Vista, you'll need to add another 4GB of RAM just for Nero and its attending processes.
Are they NUTS ?!?
It's only burning data to DVD. Can't require more than 5MB all told.
Blindwrite in its last version is less than 4MB, for chrissakes.
This is lunacy.