Nero 6.6.0.8 out

Paul K · 21-02-2005, 19:01

Think the servers have slowed to a crawl right now but the new version of Nero (6.6.0.8) can be found at the following places:
ftp://ftp.us.nero.com/Nero-6.6.0.8.exe
ftp://ftp.ahead.de/Nero-6.6.0.8.exe
ftp://ftp.de.nero.com/Nero-6.6.0.8.exe
ftp://ftp.nero.com/Nero-6.6.0.8.exe
No changelog yet but then that's nothing new is it

Think I'll wait until everyone is sleeping before I download it

21-02-2005, 19:15

on the ball, as ever - thanks Paul

- I think, like you, I will wait for the rush to die down a bit, though

**Paul** · 21-02-2005, 19:28

I'm still running 5.5.10.56 - what does v6 offer that I'm missing ?

Paul K · 21-02-2005, 19:36

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Originally Posted by Paul M

I'm still running 5.5.10.56 - what does v6 offer that I'm missing ?

Dunno but this is the spiel from the site

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Whether you are an Expert or Standard user, Nero 6 Ultra Edition makes your digital media projects a breeze to complete. Enhance your creative and technical skills with multiple tools to take you beyond the ordinary rip & burn.

AUDIO

Create, Edit, and Burn Audio Discs
Includes unlimited High Efficiency AAC (MPEG-4) encoder, rip audio CDs to various formats, record LPs and Tapes to CDs, make a compilation of all your favorite music by mixing titles in various formats and easily record at same volume.
VIDEO.

Capture, Edit, Author, and Burn Video
Personalize and customize moving menus, titles, and credits to DVDs: Add new content, delete content, change subtitles, preview in Real-time and playback DVD and other formats with Nero ShowTime.

Backup Your DVDs*
Copy your non-protected DVD movies, keep or edit audio tracks, titles or subtitles, 5.1 Surround Sound, fit an entire DVD onto a CD without loss of quality.

* Does not copy DVDs with copy protection.

PHOTO

Make Multimedia Slideshows
Make photo and video slideshows and watch on DVD player or PC. Capture and edit your photos, add multiple background music tracks, create custom menus and captions with select time duration and transitions. View your images. browse through image directories and burn to DVD, SVCD and VCD.

DATA

Save your Data files to CD or DVD
Record, drag & drop, and automatically update files from data to disc all in one session. Create and schedule automatic complete system backups spanning several CDs or DVDs.

EXTRAS

Playback and Share
Nero Media Home, our brand-new Media Server, categorizes all your media: first by type (Video, Audio, Photos and Playlists), second by artist, album and genre. Playback the media coming from Nero MediaHome with Nero ShowTime or even on your TV or Hifi (devices have to support UPNPTM-technology).

Labeling

Full set of text/image design tools for creative and professional CD/DVD and other labels. Free CD/DVD Labeling Kit included.

Analyze and Configure

Test the real performance of your drive and inserted media. Set the reading speed of a CD/DVD drive on-the-fly and get the most important information about a drive, disc, hardware configuration and software with one click.

iadom · 21-02-2005, 19:39

got it from the first (us) link, took about 8 mins on 750 K

swoop101 · 21-02-2005, 19:49

2nd link is flying 160KB/s+
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cheers for the heads up Paul

nffc · 21-02-2005, 23:31

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Originally Posted by Paul M

I'm still running 5.5.10.56 - what does v6 offer that I'm missing ?

I am, that's the only version I could *****.

Halcyon · 21-02-2005, 23:43

Are these downloads the full versions or just evaluation versions ?

21-02-2005, 23:54

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Originally Posted by Halcyon

Are these downloads the full versions or just evaluation versions ?

it depends whether you are updating, or upgrading

Simcut · 21-02-2005, 23:57

cool, that 2nd link is the best one, going like lightning!

Matth · 22-02-2005, 22:39

This is probably the "Ligtscribe support" update, about a week late, actually.

6.6.0.x is just about reaching acceptability - 6.6.0.6 was the first that got the bugs under control - if you are on a late 6.3.x.x, you may still wish to hold fire.

It's not a crucial upgrade (nor a free one) from 5.5.10.56 (the last of the 5.5's) - if you're using 5.5 and are happy with it, I'd very strongly advise staying right where you are!

The main thing Nero 6 brings, is an irritating Smartstart, and the loss of "Wizard mode" - either you pick an option from Smartstart, use the appalling "Express" mode, or jump in at the deep end with no rubber rings.

I liked Wizard mode in 5.5 - it was a well set up entry to the most often used features, and jumping straight to "Continue Multisession" seems to have been left out of the "easy" options in 6.x

Also, it's generally slower compared to 5.5

The downloads serve all three purposes, Demo, Upgrade and registerable - if you have ANY previous version, be sure to buy the UPGRADE reagistration, it's a little cheaper.

If you don't mind the "Express" interface (I hate it), then you can get hold of OEM versions cheap.
Suite 1 is the CD suite (will also work with DVD), but has no MPEG2 encoding, so cannot do SVCD or DVD-Video unless already encoded in suitable MPEG2 format.
Suite 3 is the DVD Suite, includes MPEG2 encoding

22-02-2005, 22:57

never ceases to amaze me, 6.6.0.8 has been on the edonkey network for a few days now