Customer Reviews for Roxio Toast 8 Titanium (Mac) [OLD VERSION]

Roxio Toast 8 Titanium (Mac) [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Roxio Toast 8 Titanium (Mac) [OLD VERSION]

Customer Review: Best Toast yet
Summary: 5 Stars

Toast compresses, encrypts and burns better than all the others. Best of all, it's finally given my Mac computer access to my Tivo's hard drive!

Customer Review: Don't Buy for Tivo-to-Go
Summary: 2 Stars

If you are thinking of buying Toast 8 to use the Tivo-to-Go feature to encode Tivo files for your iPod or to burn onto DVD, do not spend your money before checking out Tivo and Roxio discussion forums to see if some well-documented problems have been fixed.

Toast 8 worked well until the Tivo Fall '07 update was pushed out in October. Tivo files transferred since the update will usually play on your laptop or desktop, but there are serious problems with the export for iPod and DVD functions. At first, the export functions would not work at all in many cases. Roxio eventually got a fix out that allows it to work most of the time, but there is a continuing problem with audio synchronization. Audio is often out of sync with video by anywhere from a half second to three or four seconds.

The annoying thing is that it's completely unpredictable; some programs encode perfectly, some are all but unwatchable. There is no pattern except that 30-Minute programs seem to encode correctly more often than longer shows. My own experience is that you have about a 50/50 chance that it will work correctly.

There are alternatives out there; they may not be as fast or convenient as Toast 8, but they actually work every time. Popcorn 3, by the way, has the same set of problems.

Customer Review: Most excellent product
Summary: 5 Stars

This is the easiest software to use. I've been using it primarily with Tivo 2 Go and it is the smoothest thing ever. Roxio has made a polished user friendly product to work with my ipod and iphone.

Customer Review: Toast to Toast
Summary: 5 Stars

Toast is the premier CD / DVD burner for Mac. I needed it to do some DVD burning which it did with no down time. I just jumped right end. I tried other trial burner software like Disco and found they were not as complete as Toast. When Amazon had it for $69, I could not pass up the opportunity to buy it. All the other burner software ranged from $39-79 and were not half the performance value of Toast.

I had used Easy CD Creator on PC from Roxio and found it not to be as powerful as the best alternative which is Nero. Plus, I had some bad experiences with Roxio customer service. So, I was a little hesitant to buy Toast. After several friends highly recommended it as the only Mac burner software and the price was right on Amazon, I bought it.

So far, I have been very satisfied with Toast and would recommend it to anyone.