Nero 9 Free Edition - Nero releases first free edition

Nero has released their first free edition. Anyone can download it. It is not OEM version. It comes with basic burning capabilities, no video editing, playback etc. You can download it from the link below : http://www.nero.com/eng/downloads-nero9-free.php I really appreciate the move made by Nero. Have your say on Nero 9 free edition.

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What the hell is it installing that it requires 270Mb ? CDBurnerXP is also a basic cd/dvd burner, it's also free and it only needs 7Mb, quite a difference .
I think I'm going to stick with what I have now, it does the trick so no need to change that

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Well you see, you get to experience some high end graphics in there, so it does take some space... nope me too have no idea why it takes so much space, and that too of the free version, with basic features.

Anyway it is a great move. Giving something for free and also a paid Pro version for more features. I suppose the basic features are more than enough for an average user with some essential features like Rewritable CD erasing, Image file burning, etc.

Not many of us use CDs/DVD's these days, at least I don't. I mainly use portable Hard Disk for transferring files, but yes for permanent backups, writing to discs is the best option.
So giving away the free version might boost the usage of Nero software.

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I think the last version you used may be Nero 7 or Nero 8. Nero 7 takes around 1.32 GB. so is the case with Nero 8. But Nero 9 takes only 10.7 mb. In program files it took 130 MB only. Not bad!

Here is the proof :


The Nero 9 free version only has data burning and disc copying feature (which is not there in CDburnerXP). It can erase re-writables.

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I did not try it yet, but I guess that most of the libraries are included in the free version, and only some small binaries are not included. So, most of space needed for the full feature is exhausted, and the paid facilities are there but are not accessible.
From the commercial version of Nero, I only use "create a data CD", "create a data DVD", "copy a CD/DVD" , and burn an ISO image. If all of these are included in the free version, I don't need to buy the commercial version any more! I will save a lot of money!

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Nero free edition lack burning iso image feature. I am seeing if there is any workaround. Apart from burning images it has the other two features you've mentioned.

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Too bad. I really need to burn ISO images when I want to try a new free Linux distro.

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I still don't understand why they release such crappy freeware. CDburnerXP and burnaware are far much better than this free version by Nero.

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you can use virtual box and boot from iso rather than wasting your cd

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