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7 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
 Saves on disks, 2008-08-16
I gotta say that I like using the cheaper dvds for HD video. Many times I have to span the disks but its still better than buying HD dvds. Toast makes this possible. I compress as much as possible and use the director's cut tools to shorten the clips. Not to mention it has been reliable enough so that every disk has burned properly. Imagine if I got HD dvds and some of them were wasted. That is much worse than ruining regular dvds. Until the costs come down for high end dvds I'm making a boatful of dvds.
8 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
Solved sticky problems, 2008-08-11
Before getting Toast 9 I was getting frustrated with burning dvds. It took me awhile to figure it out, but my old software didn't support dual layer and discs for dvd players. My son had a video project and needed to get it on a disk. After several tries I had to figure out what was going wrong. I guess there is something to being to laid back and letting the Mac work for you. I found out that new dvd formats necessitate the need for new programs. Several bonuses came out too. There is streaming in the box which gives an option to transferring to disk or device. Speaking of devices, I thought I was ok with my ipod conversion program. Toast is a bit faster and offers more compression choices. I'm glad I didn't have to upgrade any hardware yet so that was worth the price of the program alone.
8 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
Merges Xbox with Mac, 2008-08-10
I shouldn't be surprised since Microsoft and Apple have had some coop lately and it's easier to switch between systems. My Xbox 360 is invaluable and I want to make use of it as much as possible. Right now it is my dvd player. I can burn HD dvds on my Mac and make them playable on Xbox. I'm downloading media to my Mac and storing them on dvds. Some of the video is HD. As long as I'm taking the trouble to get the larger HD versions itd be a waste to store them in an inferior format. The encodings can be time consuming, but there is a pause to quit the encoding and do something else. It then resumes from where it left off.
1 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 Roxio Toast 9, 2008-08-10
All I can say in few words is, this product has not produced anything for me. I have tried many things including burning a Video TS folder to a DVD and it didn't work (even after applying Roxio's latest patch). Then I tried to make an exact copy of a data CD and DVD, it didn't work. A simple mp3 song disk, nope, it did not work. I have opened a problem ticket with Roxio support group but their response is very slow. So my advice is before putting $$ consider some alternatives or wait for a bug free version of Toast.
9 of 9 customers found the following review helpful:
Hi-Def options; up-to-date streaming, 2008-08-02
I'm used to Windows but since the hubby likes Macs, he's set up everything at home with Apple hardware and software. I still use Easy Media on my laptop but for the desktops with large lcd screens I've become a better Mac user.
By now Hi-def video should be the norm, but the hardware is still priced way above standard recorders and burners. If you have a real bluray or HD burner, good for you. I like the solution that Toast offers for users of good old standard DVD burners, which I know is must of us. With tivo handling HD now I've found a way to keep the shows for longer periods of time. HD takes a lot of space on the dvr and I always seem to catch up on shows in spurts. Of course using a regular dvd has the trade-off of not fitting as much on the disc as the real thing. However the quality of the video remains and sometimes I will use the spanning option. Streaming is another good option for catching up on shows. I'm hoping that the pc version will have this soon.
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