New Nero Suite Offers TV Recording
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Nero has today updated its digital multimedia solution that provides easy burning and backup anytime. It also comes with a TV recording feature that can record shows with a touch of a button.


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The new Nero 9 gives consumers a single solution to create, edit, rip, copy, backup, convert and share their music, videos and photos within their connected digital home.

Nero’s General Manager for the Asia Pacific, Hiroi Nishimatsu said, “In developing Nero 9, we polled more than 3,000 of our worldwide customers to determine the functionality that they really wanted from the suite. Our consumers are increasingly living digital lives where the PC is the centre of the home. They require cutting-edge multimedia capabilities which allow them to enjoy and share their content online and across devices.”

The Nero 9 sports an all-new, easy-to-use interface, with the Nero StartSmart now having playback, ripping, burning, copying and backup functions with one-click tabs. In addition, Nero StartSmart now offers Autobackup, an automatic backup function accessed directly through Nero StartSmart one-click tabs.

 

Nero has also included new file playback capabilities within Nero StartSmart for music, videos and photos. NeroStartSmart now integrates Gracenote music recognition service providing song and artist information for audio files.

A new tape-scan feature allows quick and easy previews and scene selections from digital (DV) or high-definition videos (HDV) for seamless import of video into creative projects. Easily burn high definition projects with high definition menu templates to AVCHD Disc using standard recordable DVD media – save time and ensure quality with Nero’s SmartEncoding for AVCHD.

In addition, Nero now offers Blu-ray Disc Authoring Plug-in online enabling high-definition menu authoring and burning of HD video to Blu-ray Disc, ensuring playback on Playstation 3 and other Blu-ray Disc players.

Nero 9’s multimedia player, Nero ShowTime, now incorporates great usability with a new look and playback design as well as convenient docking and stand-by modes of both the browser window and playlists.

 

Nero 9 provides highly enhanced yet easy to use video editing tools to allow for greater personalization of home videos and slideshows. The new Ad Spotter detects and removes commercials from a movie and joins the movie content pieces seamlessly together. The new Music Grabber feature identifies music clips in a movie or music video and automatically extracts the audio, to save as MP3 and add to playlist. The new Movie Wizard allows creativity with an easy-to-use library of templates including themes for special occasions like birthdays, holidays and weddings, plus soundtracks and special effects.

Providing consumers with a great new TV experience for their PC, Nero Live is a new addition to Nero 9 for the viewing of high-quality live TV on the PC. As a stand-alone application or to enhance Windows Media Center, Nero Live makes it easy to watch live TV/HDTV, record TV shows, watch two channels at once with Picture-in-Picture capabilities, time shift for up to 60-minutes, listen to DVB radio.

The new Autobackup feature in Nero 9 makes it easy for consumers to backup digital entertainment content from their PCs including files, folders, drives, and even the entire system via a simple wizard interface that leads consumers through a scheduling process for backing up and saving content – offline or online. With Nero RescueAgent technology integrated into Nero 9, safely and securely recover data from damaged or scratched discs, hard drives, USB and flash sticks, and other memory devices.

Nero 9 is currently available worldwide and online at www.nero.com. The Blu-ray Disc Authoring Plug-in will be sold as a downloadable product at the Nero website. Current Nero consumers can upgrade to Nero 9 online at a special discounted price.

The recommended retail price is $199.99.