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Epicurus.com - Roxio Toast 9 Titanium
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List Price: $99.95
Our Price: $78.99
Your Save: $ 20.96 ( 21% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Roxio
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Roxio
EAN: 0815227008582
Feature: Compress, copy and convert video to watch on popular mobile devices; burn to CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, HD DVD
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Roxio
Manufacturer: Roxio
Platform: Macintosh
Publisher: Roxio
Release Date: 2008-04-01
Studio: Roxio
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Features
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Compress, copy and convert video to watch on popular mobile devices; burn to CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, HD DVD
Capture streaming audio from any source, including the Internet, to build a library of audio tracks; easily edit with CD Spin Doctor
Burn or play your favorite TV shows--even those captured from your TiVo--on your iPhone or PSP
Burn HD DVD and Blu-ray Discs--archive up to 12,500 music tracks, 50,000 photos, or hours of HD video
Schedule backups to CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, HD DVD, network volumes, and removable storage devices like a USB flash drive or hard disk
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Editorial Reviews:
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Burn your discs easier than before with Roxio Toast 9 Titanium for Macintosh. Toast is the standard for burning your data, music, photos, or video to multiple disc types including HD DVD and Blu-ray media.
Fit-to-DVD compression fits an entire 9 GB dual-layer DVD video to a standard 4.7 GB recordable DVD disc (Does not copy encrypted or copy protected content) Choose the individual DVD movies, audio and languages you want to maximize available disc space Preview content of movies before copying - Requires Apple DVD Player software Capture streaming audio from any source, including the Internet Audio fingerprinting technology identifies untagged music files and adds name, artist, album, etc - no more Track_01 Edit audio tracks with the CD Spin Doctor Graphical DJ-style crossfades and transitions Adjust output levels, trim unwanted sections, apply filters Restore music from LPs and tapes Print labels directly to disc using LightScribe or Labelflash-enabled burners and media Video cropping and trimming Create High Definition Blu-ray, HD DVD or standard DVD discs (Requires purchase of the HD/BD plug-in) Watch your recorded TiVo or EyeTV shows via the Internet - Stream video from your Mac to your iPhone or Internet-connected PC or Mac Easy TiVoToGo transfers (Does not work with DirecTV provided TiVo DVRs) Watch on your Mac, burn to a DVD, BD or HD DVD disc or export to your iPod or PSP
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Distinguished features make it worthwhile for Macs
Comment: Kids today, they think Apple makes the coolest stuff so their pc is a Mac although I still use a Dell. Creator for the pc is good so I thought that getting a roxio program for the Mac would be a good investment. I was right. It works different enough from the pc verison that sometimes I sneak time on the Mac and play around. The interface is easy, although I think that is a given for roxio programs. I have gotten frustrated with other Mac programs so I don't think an easy to figur out interface is a given. I like that it pauses in the middle of burning if you need to stop. Another thing it has over the pc version is tv streaming. I would like to see this feature in future pc versions. For now we use toast to the iPhone. Now that I know what it can do I'll be buying Apples new phones as our old ones become obsolete.
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Summary: Poor
Comment: I have a number of problems with Toast 9. You get NO help from the support at the website. Would not tell anyone to buy this product or any from the company!!!
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Summary: Handy tools for dealing with home video
Comment: My children's school projects are now demanding more software from my Mac. I'll be getting them their own soon but until then my home Mac is the center of their school work. My son likes to make videos for boy scouts and school assignments. Clearly my my old Apple programs couldn't meet the demands. Armed with an HD camcorder the video he takes demands much more computer space. He also has to burn pc compatible disks. This brought me to Toast 9. It can burn HD video and make hybrid disks. It compresses the video files so it takes as little room as possible. Sometimes we still need more than one disk but the spanning disks feature takes care of that. The program lets us know how many disks are needed before we start the burning process. Toast will convert video to the video ipod. This allows my children to work on their video projects while commuting. After learning a lot by helping with school projects I'm better at organizing home videos. The dvd menu creator is so easy there is no reason not to take the steps to make better looking disks, even if it is just for family archives.
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Summary: Toast 9 - indispensible for digital media on the Mac
Comment: At first glance Toast 9 looks like any other burning program. It does much more though. Before you burn there are tools to trim videos and don't worry about wasted space. If you're in a hurry like I am much of the time there is a compression option which is another way it saves room. The end results will work on multiple systems. Come on, not everyone has a Mac so I need Windows playable discs. I'm now saving everything in HD which of course takes a lot more space. I can use ordinary discs and not have to buy any special ones. I've also made more use of my Blackberry. I can export from the Mac to the phone with Toast's tools. I have made use of old tapes too with the tape to digital with the Spin Doctor assistant. Of course with all the options it needs to have a good interface. Check on that. Menu items are organized in a logical fashion. Of course there's still the old point and click for several main functions.
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Summary: Innovation is in the software, not just hte hardware
Comment: I've always relied on Apple for innovative computers and devices but frankly I don't think they've done a lot in the software area. Sure they may have created certain video and audio formats, but they've left it up to other software makers to pick up the slack. I mention this because I think that Toast shows how much can be squeezed out of Apple hardware and its done much better than Apple itself.
I immediately noticed that every aspect of disk authoring is more efficient and faster. Is anyone else surprised that the program burns blu-ray disks on a regular dvd burner? That's what I mean about software utilizing hardware capability. It may not be a true blu-ray disk in the sense that it doesn't have as much data, but the quality is there. There are 2 ways to fit large files to as few disks as possible. There is a fit to DVD feature. If the file is still too big the program will span the files over as many disks as it needs. With better video quality taking up more space I use this feature more than ever.
Like many software companies you can get a rebate for upgrading. I take advantage of these offers for my security and tax programs and this is no different. It's worth sending in the paperwork and getting a discount. For those who haven't used Toast before I would say that it is an essential program, much like a wordprocessing one.
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