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December 2, 2008

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Product Description
Ninth version of this popular multimedia productivity suite / Extends audio and image publishing and editing capabilities

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Nero 9 is the new and improved multimedia suite that provides the freedom to create, rip, burn, edit, share, and upload online. Whatever you want--music, video, photo, and data--enjoy and share with family and friends anytime, anywhere. Using the intuitive Nero StartSmart command center, digital life has never been more flexible, feasible, and fun!

Nero 9 is the new and improved multimedia suite that provides the freedom to create, rip, burn, edit, share, and upload online. Click to enlarge.

Nero 9 enhances every aspect of your digital lifestyle, offering ease of use while remaining reliable and dependable, with improvements catering to your digital wants and needs. Nero frees you to do more with your digital content. Create, manage, and share your music, videos, and photos with fast and easy to use tools which allow you to explore and enjoy the unlimited possibilities with Nero 9.

Creative Projects Are Easier than Ever
Using the intuitive Nero StartSmart command center of Nero 9, your digital life has never been more flexible, feasible, and fun. You directly access features and perform one-click functions such as Audio Ripping, Burning, Copying, and AutoBackup, with optimized performance for Windows Vista with Nero DiscCopy Gadget.

Fully Enjoy Your Content at Home, Online and On-the-go
Whether it's video, photo, or music, you can convert and share everything your imagination creates in your digital world. Convert & share multimedia files to play on iPod, PSP, and upload online your coolest photos and videos to share with online communities like My Nero, YouTube, and MySpace.

Make Your PC a Dynamic Home-Entertainment Device
Experience TV from the comfort of your sofa with state-of-the-art TV technology, even for HDTV and DVB Radio. Pause, record, schedule, manage, and playback your TV shows.

Best in the Business Software Gets Better
The ripping and burning capabilities of Nero 9 are the most reliable in the industry. Burn and copy to CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc--even copy movies. With DVD-R Dual Layer and DVD+R Double Layer support, you'll get more data on a disc than ever before!

Trusted and Reliable--Backup, Restore, and Secure
Don't lose your valuable memories and important files to life's potential hazards, system crash, or risky hardware. Backing up, securing, and managing files and data is a point-and-click away.

ShowTime DVD and multimedia player plays the latest digital file formats and boasts a new playback design. Click to enlarge.

Watch, record, pause, and customize your live TV experience with Nero Live. Click to enlarge.

Use the Movie Wizard template library and create entertaining movies for every occasion. Click to enlarge.

Create & Edit

Video
Whether you're recording soccer games, concerts, or family reunions, get professional results in an easy-to-use video creation and editing tool. Use the Movie Wizard template library and create entertaining movies for every occasion (birthdays, weddings, vacations). Watch seamless movies or music videos, without commercials or other scenes interrupting, by using Ad Spotter to automatically cut them out. Become the movie director you were meant to be!

Music
Dust off your old CDs and LPs and digitally archive them forever. Easily manage and play your favorite music titles with new music recognition service delivers accurate song and artist information, and album art (Powered by Gracenote). Browse media for playback, create playlists of your favorite audio tracks, shuffle and categorize tracks for easy reference. Simply create MP3 archives of your favorite Music videos with Music Grabber.

Photo
Make all your digital photos come to life. Share the stories of your life's most memorable moments with professional photo-editing tools to correct red-eyes, crop, rotate, adjust, and enhance photo quality. Create entertaining photo slideshows with special effects, transitions, and music; burn it on DVD with great 3D menus and share with family and friends.

Convert & Share

High-Definition
Make use of the latest AVCHD or HDV camcorders, edit your project in HD quality including Nero SmartEncoding for AVCHD and create an AVCHD disc on a regular DVD medium (red laser) or a BD-AV disc (blue laser).

Convert & enjoy multimedia files on iPod, PSP
Convert your music, videos, and photos to DVD, CD, or your portable devices and enjoy them on the go. Convert your old CDs, LPs, and tapes to MP3s and save them forever--Gracenote MusicID will give you the track information, titles, and great album art to complete your collection.

Internet
Upload your coolest photos and videos to share with online communities like YouTube, MySpace, and My Nero.

Home Entertainment

Media Center
New amazing TV experience from the comfort of your sofa gives you state-of-the-art TV technology, even for HDTV and DVB Radio. Integrates into Windows Vista Media Center and Windows XP Media Center Edition.

High-Definition Television
Record, manage, playback, and enjoy your favorite TV shows--even for HDTV. Watch High-Definition TV and use the P-i-P ("picture-in-picture") mode for watching 2 channels at the same time.

Playback Media Management
ShowTimeDVD and multimedia player features latest digital audio and video file formats, a new playback design--with convenient playlist handling, shuffle playback, as well as docking and stand-by modes of both, the browser window and playlists. New display, with Gracenote music services, shows clear and accurate track and artist information, as well as album art.

Rip & Burn

Best in the World!
Fast and easy ripping, burning and copying of CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs directly through Nero StartSmart. With DVD-R Dual Layer and DVD+R Double Layer support, you'll get more data on a disc than ever before!

DiscCopy Gadget
One-click disc copy with Nero DiscCopy Gadget--optimized for Windows Vista.

Personalized Disc Labels
Personalize your discs with labels, covers, and booklets, and choose from multiple templates or customize with your own images.

Backup

Protect and Archive Files and Data
Safely backup to archive, protect, and manage your multimedia library for generations to come. Don't lose your valuable memories and important files to life's potential hazards, or risky hardware--protectively archiving files and data is a point-and-click away.

Securely Manage Content
Customize automatic functions for easy and convenient Autobackup for offline or online files storage. Schedule automatic backups to ensure consistency and recover and preserve files and data with Nero RescueAgent. Easily scan for most media types and files, with quick overview of damage and rescue status.

Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...

1 out of 5 stars

Fails to install, as for everyone else December 1, 2008
I agree with all other reviewers:

1. Nero 9 fails to even install. Vista SP1 32-bit with full admin rights. Enough RAM/HDD/Processor speed.

2. Clean-up tool is indeed a mess. Sysinternals process monitor indicated that it was scanning the whole hard-drive (what the f**k). Yet did not remove stuff from Nero 9 folder! Running it second time worked and removed Nero 9 folder.

3. Messed up restore points by adding some 50 new ones.

4. Installer takes forever. And it gives some "shell" error (do not remember exact text) repeatedly, some 20 times. So I had to sit and keep clicking OK. Cannot even go relax while it is "supposedly" installing.

5. It claimed some applications installed successfully and the installer provided option to keep these while rolling back others. OK. But hey, the applications installed did not work.

6. Nero control center failed to recognize the trial serial number I got (copy-pasted from their email). It does not even say "not recognized". Just does not do anything.

Thank goodness I did not open the retail box I had purchased and decided to try installing it after seeing the reviews here. (And of course, I installed on a live system backup, not on the real system.)

Nero 9 is going back even when I got it under free-after-rebate from Thanksgiving sale. Nero 9 is not worth the time sending the rebates, and the sales tax and postage that rebate does not refund.

My main reason to upgrade from Nero 8 was to get any improvements they might have made to AVCHD support. Nero 8 works fine but has some stupid things (cannot open AVCHD video, make edits, and just save the changes; it has to recreate the whole thing**). Nero website claims they have made significant updates but what the heck if it does not even install!!

** By the way, you cannot do this even in Pinnacle Studio. Nero 8 was better than Pinnacle though since it at least copied over the AVCHD clips that did not change unlike Pinnacle that recreates EVERYTHING.

Why do I even use NERO 8 for AVCHD when I have Pinnacle? Well, once I edit with Pinnacle, I cannot view the video again in my HD camcorder. The file-naming convention does not match (camcorder uses old one). Nero 8 used old convention too, so camcorder recognized edited videos.

1 out of 5 stars

Stay Away!!! November 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

800124

This is your final warning!!! Do not, I repeat DO NOT attempt to use this product!!! It will not install correctly on either XP or Vista machines and getting a refund from Nero is impossible. I finally gave up on installing this after 4 days on my notebook and Desktop. This piece of do-do software will not complete the install and you will be require to go online and use a lame piece of software called clean tool which also DOES NOT function correctly. This used to be a good product a couple of years ago, and now with the cost-cutting, which is happening everywhere, they are probably using amature programmers to create this c**p.

4 out of 5 stars

It's better now! November 26, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I just bought and installed Nero9 without any problems (Other than slowest install know to mankind). I think Ahead must have reacted to some of the bad reviews and pushed some quick changes in.
I was a little worried after reading all the bad reviews because I had already (just) bought it. I had just gotten burned with Pinnacles Studio 10 and still healing up (This set the standard for Crap).
So far I have made and burned a home movie and music CD for my son. I did have to google a couple of things to figure out how to tweak the video and sound levels.
I also had to shut off the application feedback to nero as it causes a delay on starting of the applications.

Installed on a Dell quad core with 32bit Vista.

1 out of 5 stars

Does not play Blu-ray November 17, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

Usually when you spend $50 on an UPGRADE, you get an upgrade. This is not the case here. Nero has removed the ability to play blurays without warning potential customers of this. So you spend $$, go through the painful process of installing this thing, then try do something you did with version 8 and it doesn't work (as it is no longer supported). WTF?!? Then try to uninstall this thing and reinstall 8, I couldn't do it (8 kept saying the installation was corrupt). I had to use a backup image from 2 months ago to restore my computer to the state it was in pre-nero 9, and in the process lose a bunch of stuff. We'll see if nero gives me a refund for this junk.

If ahead software was concerned in the least about it's customers, it would have been upfront in stating what was and was not included with version 9. Instead they lied (you can lie when you do not say something about something you should, it's called lying by omission) their product and wasted several hours of my life & that's unforgivable, especially in this economic climate.

I'll need a REALLY good reason before Ahead Software will see another dime from me.

In summery, if you buy Nero 9 you'll get absolute junk software + lying software company + really bad customer service.

1 out of 5 stars

DO NOT BUYYYY!!!!! November 16, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

I purchased this item. I really liked Nero 8, despite many bad reviews at the time. So I didn't believe the naysayers about Nero 9. My loss. Wasted money and hours of cleanup on my system to totally remove the problems it left. First of all, it wouldn't even fully install. Then, it left problems in my registry and with other audio/video programs. Finally, after using their own cleanup program they had to design for this mess (doesn't it tell you something when a software company has to design software to fix their OWN program and give it to [ex-] customers to repair their computers?) and after several registry cleanings, I removed it and will NEVER purchase a Nero product again. DO NOT... DO NOT BUY!!!