With the release of Nero 7 Ultra Edition, Nero has packed a ton of functionality into a nicely priced package. Here's what you get for your $80:
* Nero Mobile: Nero Mobile helps you take your multimedia files with you on your phone, portable media player, or PDA.
* Nero Sipps: A voice-over IP (VoIP) solution, Nero Sipps allows you to make phone calls over the Internet. Of course, the person you're calling will have to be running the software as well.
* Nero Home: Basically a software version of Tivo, Nero Home allows you to record, watch, pause, and rewind live TV on your PC.
* Nero Scout: Nero Scout is a file indexing and search package that enables you to quickly and easily find files you're looking for, organizing them by file type and allowing you to search on either your hard drive or the Internet.
* Nero StartSmart 3: StartSmart is Nero's application launcher. It organizes the various pieces of software in the bundle by type of functionality and provides quick access to every bit of functionality in the package.
* Nero Burning ROM 7: This is Nero's full featured, no-holds barred CD & DVD burning software. It offers all the power you'll need but without the hand-holding offered by the Express package. If you're a multimedia newbie you'll probably want to avoid this until you're comfortable with the ins and outs of working with multimedia. That said, there are some features Express doesn't feature that you'll have to jump into this to do.
* Nero Express 7: Nero's quick and easy burning software, Express is still packaged with functionality in an easy-to-user interface.
* Nero Wave Editor 3: Wave Editor is a good audio editing and recording tool that supports audio creation up to 7.1 surround sound. It's not something an audio engineer will use, but for the home enthusiast it's got pretty much everything you'll need.
* Nero SoundTrax 2: SoundTrax is a virtual set of turntables and mixing software that let's you become a virtual DJ. You can easily switch between SoundTrax and Wave Editor and vice versa.
* Nero SoundBox: SoundBox let's you incorporate beats, sound sequences, and melodies into SoundTrax projects. It also features text to speech functionality and helps you to generate real world surround sound atmospheres such as stadium and nature effects.
* Nero Vision 4: Nero Vision is a video capture, editor, and burner all in one. It offers a good many features for producing attractive, quality videos.
* Nero Recode 2: Recode helps you easily convert digital media from one type to another with what is claimed to be the world's fastest MPEG encoder.
* Nero ShowTime 3: ShowTime is a fairly straightforward DVD and multimedia player. If
Windows Media Player or DivX player can't play it, chances are ShowTime can and with excellent quality video and sound output to boot.
* Nero MediaHome: MediaHome is a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) streaming solution that lets you share media files on a Local Area Network (LAN) using the Nero MediaHome Server.
* Nero PhotoSnap: PhotoSnap is the photo editing piece of the bundle. It's no PhotoShop, but for most hobbyist users it will probably be sufficient. It offers a fairly standard bundle of effects.
* Nero PhotoShow Express: A stripped down version of the Deluxe package, it's a basic photo manager and sharing package.
* Nero Cover Designer 2: Cover Designer is a nice CD & DVD label creator. It has some nice templates to help you get the job done quickly and easily but the limited selection means you'll quickly be either reusing the same ones or just creating basic, non-glitzy labels.
* Nero ToolKit: ToolKit gives you your benchmarking and hardware information capabilities. You probably won't venture into this territory very often, but it's a nice package to have available.
* Nero BackItUp 2: A drive backup package that offers some wizards and automated backup capability.
* InCD 5: This is a file drag-and-drop re-writeable media writer that gives you HD and
Blu-ray support, assuming you have the hardware to use it.
* Nero ImageDrive 3: This is a fairly standard virtual drive package that lets you mount up to two images simultaneously and treat them as regular drives. It integrates into Windows Explorer and supports its own nrg and the more standard iso format.
