Product Description

Toast 10.0 Titanium Double DVD EFIGS Mac

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #325 in Software
• Brand: Roxio
• Model: 242600
• Released on: 2009-01-24
• Platform: Mac OS X
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Dimensions: 1.57" h x 5.51" w x 7.48" l, .82 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Toast 10 Titanium simplifies disc burning, DVD copying and video conversion. Edit, copy, burn, convert & share your videos, movies, photos, music and more. New features include AVCHD support, internet audio capture, audiobook CD conversion, DVD video clip extraction & conversion, and capture of streaming Web video. Improved features let you watch recorded EyeTV shows on your Internet connected Mac, PC or iPhone anywhere. Other features include digitising LP and tapes and copying dual layer DVDs onto affordable single layer DVDs. Toast is the disc burning standard for the Mac - now in its 10th year, it offers even more!

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Customer Reviews

Invaluable Mac Utility
Toast 10 is primarily a disk burning utility, and a very competent one at that. Although OS X includes a built in disk burning utility, it's basic to say the least. Toast has all the burning functions you would ever need - Data, Audio/MP3 CDs, enhanced Audio (i.e. Audio and Video on the one disk), Video DVDs, Blu-ray disks (you get a free plug-in to allow you to author blu-ray and you can even burn HD content to a standard DVD and play it back on your blu-ray player; a great way to get the quality of HD, although you can only fit approx. 20 mins of content on a DVD). Toast also taps in to Apple's iLife media browser, allowing you to easily take your media from iLife and export it using Toast.
As well as all of these fairly standard features, Toast is also an excellent file converter for video and audio. Take a Windows Media video for instance, and it can easily convert it for playback on your Apple TV, iPhone/iPod, Blackberry or games console. You can even convert a whole batch of files at one time. One really interesting feature is that you can import a multi-cd audio book, and Toast will automatically convert it to a singe audio file with chapter markers for you to send to iTunes.
The interface is really straightforward - just drag and drop. I've been a user of toast for 5 years now, and this is a great evolution of the product. It seems very fast and stable (I had problems with the previous version frequently crashing); it converted a batch of 35 video files without a problem.
To summarise, this is an excellent utility for the Mac - a great compliment to iLife, and in my opinion an essential program.

Only for good people!
By all accounts, and I'm not a MAC user - I gave this to my Son-in-law to try out, this is better than the basic built in copiers and converters on the MAC. The main problem here relates to the limitations imposed by copyright. If you are into transferring stuff, say to your iPOD or Smartphone, then you will be frustrated that you can only do this with non-copyright material. Of course if this is you then probably you have already found a way round this problem with freeware or shareware purchased online - and it was probably cheaper too.

Bottom line - does what it should within the limitations of copyright.

...no great leap forward...
Well this gave me an excuse to bring my Mac out from storage and have a play around with a product I'd heard good things about. And, well, um, it's OK.

Installation was a breeze, which is always a bonus, but once things were up and running, it became a bit harder. Problem is, although some of the individual products are very good, it seems more like a bundle of separate apps, rather than an all in one package. Some of the things were very good, especially the core burning programme, but some of the add-ins like the CD cover maker and the Mac2Tivo app (hello! we're British) just seem to be there to fill in space.

The help was pretty threadbare and a lot of time was spent ploughing through websites to work out what the heck was going on, and DivX isn't included, so you might want to check that out. Taken back to its bare essentials, which is burning CDs and DVDs, it does the job very well, but I get the feeling that the "upgrade" from Toast 9, is more a selling tool than a great leap forward.