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1 Star Review

Reviewed by: indianaradios

Updated:01-18-06

Duration of ownership:2 Days

Strengths:

Weaknesses: Poor quality video after burning.

Overall Evaluation: After I installed the software, I burned my first DVD. The video clip I used was about 2.5 gigs big and the video was recorded, using ATI recorder, at around 9.3 MBPS in MPEG-2 mode. When the clip is viewed, directly from my hard drive using Cyberlink PowerDVD, the video is absolutly crisp and clear. After I burned it onto a DVD, using default settings, the picture quality was greatly reduced to little square pixels as if I was viewing the video through an insects eyes. Could find no means to increase the resolution. A real disapointment. Not worth buying.
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2 Star Review

Reviewed by: rshearin

Updated:03-09-05

Duration of ownership:2 Years

Strengths: Nice program when you can A) get it working and B)stop it from intefering with or corrupting other programs.

Weaknesses: One of my biggest gripes w/Roxio and Symantec is the fact that, by installing Roxio CD & DVD Creator 6, I somehow trigger the piracy protection on my Symantec Programs and they require reactivation.

Overall Evaluation: Now, Once you have gotten nowhere with Roxio's Support as to the problem and had to go through an act of Congress to convince Symantec that you are not using one program on more than one computer, you get fed up and try to uninstall Roxio "Easy" (where they came up with "easy" is anyone's guess) CD & DVD Creator 6 and unless you used software such as Norton Cleansweep's Smart sweep, you find out just how difficult it is to COMPLETELY remove this animal. (which may be part of the problem with the software conflicts as well.) It was an nice program when it worked. It just doesn't "play nice" with other software.
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4 Star Review

Reviewed by: pianodave

Updated:07-26-04

Duration of ownership:9 Months

Strengths: Great program for burning audio cd's and keeping up with your library of songs. The wave player/recorder is also excellent.

Weaknesses: I don't know of any, but I haven't tried to do anything with DVD's.

Overall Evaluation: Very good program. Works very well for me. Took me a while to get the hang of the drag to disc but now it works fine.
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2 Star Review

Reviewed by: cobra2000svt

Updated:06-26-04

Duration of ownership:8 Months

Strengths: None

Weaknesses: everything

Overall Evaluation: Trying to uninstall the program. For some reason its not letting me. I tried everything i know. Now its interferring with all my programs. FUBAR Roxio. I will never purchase anything made but roxio.
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1 Star Review

Reviewed by: brandy2004

Updated:02-11-04

Duration of ownership:2 Days

Strengths: no strengths

Weaknesses: everything about it

Overall Evaluation: I have tryed and tryed to burn Cd and always comes up with error I have uninstalled then installed it again came up with error's again! I do NOT Recomand this program to ANY ONE it is A WAIST of MONEY AND TIME!
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1 Star Review

Reviewed by: bargain1man

Updated:01-13-04

Duration of ownership:2 Months

Strengths: Virtually none

Weaknesses: Nothing works. Follow the manual & instructions -- no results. I thought it was me, but it is a poor, useless program.

Overall Evaluation: I really feel my whole program is unstable. Sometimes I'm blocked from a procedure for no reason, sometimes it just refuses to do anything. After installing and uninstalling for the third time, I did make one copy of an audio CD before the burner refused to burn. I have a multi-media burner which works with all other programs, so that is not the problem. Roxio has programmed useless popups the end of certain procedures, which give you no choices. My money was totally wasted on this one. They do not respond to emails or telephone calls. How can a company remain in business with such poor customer relations??? I also downloaded their patches and new engine, but it refused to load into my program after I got it downloaded. A 5 hour process which was a total bummer -- and I have DSL. I'm erasing all the Roxio files and uninstalling everything connected with it. From now on, if it says Roxio, I will pass.
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3 Star Review

Reviewed by: miwi98

Updated:12-30-03

Duration of ownership:5 Months

Strengths: Does a great job using photos and music to make DVD and on the CD side love how you have a choice to encode your audio file-.wav,,mp3 or wma. This is great when attempting to add music to your Videos.

Weaknesses: No audio when downloading Video and can only download 1min and 29 seconds @ a time. Terrible technical support or rather NONE!!!!

Overall Evaluation: Roxio is the only software company that give its customer POOR customer and technical support. I wish Compaq would use another company to include in their "bundle software". Lastly, I don't appreciate Roxio's codess that disable me from burning CD's with Microsoft's Windows Media 9 or burning data files also!
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1 Star Review

Reviewed by: hayse1921

Updated:12-27-03

Duration of ownership:14 Days

Strengths: None

Weaknesses: everything is weak

Overall Evaluation: I can't get it to install it on my new com. win xp ,it will not do anything I am very unhappy, I can't believe that a company wold sell something that don't work.
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1 Star Review

Reviewed by: xtremegamer

Updated:11-05-03

Duration of ownership:40 Days

Strengths: Installs easy on Windows XP and updates are easy to get on DSL.

Weaknesses: I can't make a DVD that won't skip or have pixel problems.

Overall Evaluation: I have contacted tech support via e-mail and have heard no response, except for a automatic e-mail that say that we have received your e-mail. The e-mail tech support is only good for the first 90 days and to call tech support cost $35 dollars each call. But back to the software, I made a movie, and then tried to burn in onto a DVD, with Roxio software. It comes out that it takes about 1 hours just to make the a 2 GB DVD ready to copy. Then when I stick in in my DVD player it glitches at the starting and ending of each chapter. So then I install the updates, thinking that they must have fixed it. Well they did but now all the pixels are messed up. Everywhere on the movie there is little squares about the size of a centimeter. I thought that maybe I did not have the right file size but when a movie that is less then 4 minutes take over 700MB each and there is no bigger setting then you know you have the biggest and the best. So over all tech support is lousy and the product is even worse. It is a real pain when you have to get the DVD done by a certain time and you can't trouble shoot every problem with the software. Oh and people that think I don't have a fast enough computer this is what I have... AMD Athlon XP 2700+ ASUS N-Force Deluxe 4X DVD-/+RW 80 GB WD Hard Drive 768MB 2700DDR ATI Radeon 9000 128 DDR Pro Video Card Firewire Card
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1 Star Review

Reviewed by: leftyb

Updated:10-26-03

Duration of ownership:7 Days

Strengths: None I could see.

Weaknesses: Would not install.

Overall Evaluation: Have three computers, all running Windows 98 SE and meeting the system requirements of this software but it not only would not install on the machine it was purchased for but it would not install on any of the machines. In each case it said it was not compatible with "Windows 98 Gold Edition" which I do not have a clue about. Contacted Roxio for help and heard nothing back from them so this was a total waste of money.