Nero up until now has been a powerful, pretty darned good program. But they went a bit bonkers with Nero 7 and added all of this NeroHome shit. They're trying to compete for control of the TV, the Media Center software, the CD player, and the computer. Probably some other stuff I don't own or haven't thought of. There is a program in there for downsizing movies to watch on your little MP3 thingie or your phone or whatever. I get Nero because it is good burning software, pretty easy to use, and has some good software for transferring files from cassettes and records and such and editing out noise, pops, hiss, what have you.

SRS