Customer Reviews
GREAT!! 
2008-06-13
My son told me this was what I needed to purchase in order for me to be able to upload to You Tube. It works pretty easy and I love it. I'm a proud mom of 7 and one so far is a singer and I wanted to share his talents with family and friends from all over. So this product worked great for what I wanted and it was very user friendly. I was nervous at first to buy Nero, because of the bad comments, but there were plenty of good comments also, so I said - GO FOR IT!!! I'm happy that I purchased it, and now people can see my son!
Nero 8 
2008-06-07
Quite difficult to install (had to do it 3 times before it took, uninstalling each previous time). The portion that i use (data copy/burn) is more complex to use than the version 6 that I have. I an seriously thinking about switching back.
Nero improbus 
2008-05-30
Nero * ultra edition is a foot dragging
juggernaut . The loading time is irritatingly
slow . I found the program to be very
user unfriendly . The controls which at
first seem to be intuitive lead to false
starts on simple projects like photo transfers
to CD . I finally pulled it off my computer
because it would come up as the default photo
browser at times which meant waiting for the
program to load , only to get a message that
Nero could not read the file . I'll stick with
my adobe and windows media for photo and CD
file burning . They're not fancy but they
actually work .
Nero 8 is Great 2008-05-29
I used Nero at work and needed it at home to create a DVD from an ISO image that I had downloaded on my Windows Vista System for my Linux box. After getting past the learning curve, the product did what I wanted and is great. I like it better than Roxio Easy CD.
Nero 8 2008-05-25
I love this product. It's great for all types of media and it's helped me back up my video and photo files!
A Good Product, but hardly worth the upgrade price 
2008-07-02
Nero 8 Ultra Edition is the next submission in a long line of upgrades to the venerable line of cd/dvd editing/authoring software. If you have a high def. video camcorder or other more recent hardware, the upgrade price may be worth your while to upgrade--for me I have found it not worth it. Perhaps it is worth it for more Vista compatibility though, even though I don't use the special Vista features.
Pros: You can do a little of just about any type of DVD/CD/VIDEO editing with this software--but don't expect Pinnacle Studio or Sony Vegas Studio features. Greater Vista compatibility with some Vista features. There is a slight improvement to the user interface. Directly upload to YouTube and other video sharing websites.
Cons: Requires you to buy more licenses for more than one PC even if not used concurrently. Jack of all trades, but master of none--lacks the high end features in most cases that advanced users crave. Downloading updates for the boxed version essentially turns it into the download version of Nero 8. The main drawback to this is that your documentation (which is poorly done at best) is whiped out rendering you help button and drop down useless. If you want to consult a manual you have to download each one and open them separately. There is no printed manual to speak of included in the boxed version, and for a $100 peice of software I find that unacceptable. I also was inelligible for upgrade prices because I'd previously purchased the download version.
Conclusion: I find the fact that updates whipe out my help menu totally unaccepatable. I doubt I will upgrade to the next version. If you're running XP and have version 7 the price for an upgrade may not be worth the price of admission.
Nero 8 Ultra good features but very slow to load 2008-06-20
I have been a staunch Nero user since v5.5. Most recently I had Nero 7 Ultra installed on my Core-2 Duo, XP Pro system with a SONY DVD Writer. Being very pleased with Nero 7, I upgraded to Nero 8 Ultra. Big Mistake!
I recommend that if you are on Nero 7, don't upgrade unless you absolutely have to.
Nero 8 Ultra's GUI doesn't resize correctly when used with a high resolution monitor mode (I use 1600 x 1200) and leaves out some areas in the GUI. If they have the buttons in that area, then you're toast.
Any of the Nero applications take an inordinately long time to load. Having loaded, some take some more time before they can start working. [this on a fast system with terrabytes of SATA-II drive space and 4 GB fast DDR2 RAM and a Core-2 Duo 2GHz processor]
I am particularly annoyed with Showtime that takes a half minute to load and another half minute before it will play any media file. All the time performing a rather cheesy and irritating count-up several times in the video window regardless of whether you are playing audio or video media.
I won't even go into the other issues I had as they seem to be covered by other reviewers here.
On the flip side, there are a great many fundamental improvements that get lost under th really bad user interface. The burning ROM and express perform very well and are fast and I have had a 100% success in burning all my CD's and DVD's so far.
Even Showtime, when it does play does an excellent job at playing back video. There is a noticeably cleaner video and HD video playback is supported as well. You can also watch MP-4 and FLV from You Tube, etc. If you have any clips left over from before they started blocking downloads.
The Recode function also does very well. I used some old You Tube music video FLV files lying around my drive to create a DVD and I was amazed by the quality of the video. My Camcorder video also turns out very well.
There is a pretty good editor for both Audio and Video provided [I have AvidFreeDV and Pinnacle for video and SONY sound forge and acid for audio as well so I don't use those parts much]
Both the editing features still have some way to go before they are comparable to other commercial or even open source pure editing softwares. I must say that you do get a whole bunch of powerful features, although the user interface and flexibility of those features leave much to be desired.
InCD works and could read my old CD/RW and DVD/RW from the previous version.
Couldn't use the Home entertainment section as my capture cards or TV tuners are not compatible. I don't really care about that part anyway.
In short, Nero 8 Ultra adds some great features. However, those features come at a steep price. Slow to load applications, slow loading of media files and not very flexible user interface.
I tried to keep this review as balanced as possible even though I am furious with Ahead for letting us long time Nero users down. Hope this review helps you make your decision.
Great software but only load what you need 
2008-06-19
I've only been using Nero 8 for a couple of days but so far it's exceeded my expectations. I ordered it in spite of a lot of negative reviews but took advice from those who warned only to load specific apps that you need. The result was it only took minutes to load on my Vista laptop. I'm using Nero Vision to burn Blu-Ray format HD on normal 4 gig DVD's & it works great. My advice is to do all of the more detailed editing on dedicated editing software such as Studio 11 & render to 1080i mp2 & then import to Nero Vision for final processing.
Useful functions, but with unexpected error 2008-06-16
This program has wonderful functions especially in video editing which people do not expect much from CD-burning program.
Only one glich is that this program seems to use a lot of memory resource and consiquently runs a little bit slow and is sometimes terminated only leaving error message.
Great Product, very easy to use . 2008-06-15
Nero 8 Ultra is very easy to use, makes backup easier, and does all the conversions for you. Great product.
