Roxio Easy Media Creator Celebrates 10
Although the basic reason for the release of Easy Media Creator 10 is to achieve compatibility with Windows Vista, there are other additions and refinements to the package.
Roxio beat Nero to the punch here, as it is the first product offered that is certified Vista compatible. Ahead Software’s Nero Burning ROM will be available in early October.
Catering to the YouTube generation, EM10 offers an easy way to upload content to any of several internet video content sites, from most any source. Special attention is given to mobile phone video, with tools to transform raw efforts into polished productions.
Incorporated into the new version is a useful feature for anyone who has a few ‘burns’ under their belt. Disc cataloguing is made easy, and alleviates any need for a third party solution. Nice.
DVD playback is easier and more wide ranging now, as support is better for Home Theater PCs. EM10 supports Dolby Digital EX 6.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1 so that more accurate reproduction can be had.
All the other features from earlier versions are there, working together as before, and more easily accessed through the menus. The backup feature, which is all many will need, the photo importer, and the outstanding support for ISO burning are still there, lean and ready to go with no bloat.
As before the product can be had with or without the Dazzle video capture hardware. The price without is $99, and with adds an additional $50.
It will be interesting to see what Ahead does with Nero, but of late, I tend to wonder about the application - I have suffered through 5 minor revisions of version 7, with none of them resolving the problems with the NMIndexServer application that is part of Nero Scout. At first I thought it was a problem with the speed of the machines I was working on, but after the same problems were occurring on two different dual core machines, I gave up on that idea. The only way thus far, to eliminate the problem is to disable Scout. If it cannot be fixed, Ahead should give it a decent funeral - and drop it from Nero 8.
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