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The Best-in-class Multimedia Suite Gets Even Better
- Nero StartSmart gets even more powerful with media playback and auto backup
- Nero Live integrates with Windows Media Center
- Ad Spotter lets you detect commercials in a movie for easy removal
- Music Grabber lets you search for music clips within a movie
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Top 5 Reasons to Upgrade to Nero 9
- Enjoy a fast, easy, and convenient user interface
Nero StartSmart, the intuitive command center in Nero 9, now integrates new playback, ripping, burning, copying, and backup functions with one click tabs so you can quickly and easily access your favorite digital features.
- Create superior High Definition video
Simply capture video from AVCHD camcorders and create stunning movies with 3D animated menu templates for professional-looking videos. The new Tape Scan feature lets you quickly and easily preview with scene selections from digital (DV) or High Definition videos (HDV) for the seamless import of video, saving you time and hard drive space. Easily add HD menu templates and burn AVCHD discs using standard recordable DVD media. Nero’s Smart Encoding for AVCHD saves you time and ensures quality playback. - Watch, record, pause, and customize your live TV experience
Providing a great new TV experience for your PC, Nero Live is a new addition to Nero 9 that lets you view high-quality live TV on your PC. As a stand-alone application or to enhance your 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 (PiP) capabilities, time shift for up to 60 minutes, and listen to DVB radio.
- Edit videos and create professional-looking DVD movies
Nero 9 provides highly-enhanced yet easy-to-use video editing tools that let you personalize your home videos and slide shows. The new Movie Wizard allows for greater creativity with an easy-to-use library of templates including themes for special occasions like birthdays, holidays, and weddings, plus soundtracks and special effects.
- Protect, back up, and recover your memories
Nero 9 includes new easy and convenient tools to protect your valuable memories and confidential data, plus safeguard against system crashes, natural disasters, and human error. The new Auto Backup feature in Nero 9 makes it easy for you to back up digital files from your PC including files, folders, drives, and even the entire system via a simple wizard interface for offline or online backup. With Nero RescueAgent technology, you can safely and securely recover data from damaged or scratched discs, hard drives, USB and flash sticks, and other memory devices.
* Requires Online Backup Subscription
Product Comparison |
Nero 9 Retail |
Nero 9 Essentials |
Nero 8 | Nero 8 Essentials |
Nero 7 | Nero 6 |
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| TV card SD & HDTV (up to 4 tuner support with PiP) plug-in for Windows Media Center | NEW | |||||
| Watch TV in Windows Vista Sidebar | NEW |
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| Easy copy any kind of discs (including Blu-Ray) with one simple click | |
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| Protect your personal data with SecurDisc your personal data with SecurDisc | PLUS | |
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| Automatically extract the music of Music TV Shows and export to MP3 | NEW | |||||
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| Automatically retrieve all Music information via Gracenote (Album Art,Title, Artist, year, etc.) | NEW | |
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| Watch videos, listen to music and view photos with the PS3 and XBOX 360 on your TV | TRIAL | |
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| Watch, record and schedule TV & HDTV recordings with latest TV tuner cards (up to 4 tuners) - supports EPG and Picture -in-Picture- integrated into WindowsVista Media Center | NEW | |||||
| Watch, record and schedule TV & HDTV recordings with latest TV tuner cards (up to 4 tuners) - supports EPG and Picture -in-Picture - under Windows XP | NEW | |
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| Easily manage your media and create video play lists | NEW | |
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| Play AVCHD, AVC h.264, AVCREC, Matroska, Flash Video , MPEG 2, MPEG4, DivX, Xvid, etc. | PLUS | |
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| Play commercial Hollywood DVD-Videos with Dolby Digital 2 channel sound | |
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| View & Browse your digital camera photos on your Notebook or Desktop computer | |
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| Quickly add a style to your video project with’ Movie Wizard’ and automatically create a great movie | NEW | |||||
| Easily Detect Commercials and Music Videos | NEW | |||||
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| Conserve your memories and create DVD-Video discs from various video files that plays on all standard DVD Players | |
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| Import and burn your family videos from your digital video camera to burn as a DVD-Video with professional looking DVD menu animations | |
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| NEW | New Functionilty in Nero 9 |
| PLUS | Highly improved functionality |
Pricing & Eligibility
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US $63.99 | Upgrade Now |
General System Requirements Nero 9
- A DVD-ROM drive is required for installation
- Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Vista®, Windows Vista® with SP1, Windows Media Center 2005 SP2, Windows ® Server 2003
- Microsoft® Windows Vista® x64 Edition (all applications besides InCD, Nero DiscCopy Gadget, and Nero Nero Live Gadget work in the x86 emulator for 32-bit Windows® applications).
- Windows® Internet Explorer® 6.0 or higher
- 1 GHz Intel® Pentium® III or equivalent AMD and Intel® processor (2 GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 or equivalent AMD and Intel® processor for Windows Vista®), 256 MB RAM (512 MB RAM for Windows Vista®)
- 1.5 GB hard drive space for a typical installation of all components
- CD, DVD, or Blu-ray Disc recordable or rewritable drive for burning
- DirectX® 9.0c revision 30 (August 2006) or higher
- Up to 9 GB available hard drive space for DVD images and temporary DVD files
- Graphics card with at least 32 MB video memory and minimum resolution of 800 x 600 pixels and 16-bit color settings. 24-bit or 32-bit true color is recommended
- Installation of the latest WHQL certified device drivers is strongly recommended
- Online connection required for Nero online services. DSL-1000 or faster is recommended for video services (or any other broadband Internet connection with equivalent performance).
- Online connection required for registration − e.g.: activate full DVD, MPEG-2 functionality after 30-day trial period for free.
- Online connection also required for online back up, product updates, Gracenote (TM) services, and other features (such as photo sharing).
- Internet connection charges are the user's responsibility
- The Microsoft .NET 3.0 runtime environment must be installed on the target system prior to the Nero product installation
Optional Requirements
- 16-bit Microsoft® Windows® compatible sound device and speakers (16 bit sound device required for Nero Wave Editor and Nero SoundTrax)
- Installation of latest WHQL certified device drivers recommended
- Blue laser reading/writing device for Blu-ray Disc support* (check special blue laser system requirements)
- Up to 50 GB free hard drive space for Blu-ray Disc BD-R/support-nero9-system-requirementsRE dual layer disc images
- SecurDisc compatible optical drive for SecurDisc features
- OHCI compliant FireWire controller (IEEE 1394) for DV or HDV capturing
- TV tuner or video capture card for analog and digital video recording
- For a list of supported capture cards please see here: www.nero.com.
*Certain Blue Laser functionalities require purchase of an additional plug-in available at www.nero.com.
Special Requirements for Home Entertainment
Nero Show Time
- Optical drive with DVD capability to play DVD-Video
- Optical disc drive with Blue-ray Disc support to play BD Video titles*(check special blue laser system requirements)
- Graphics card with hardware overlay support.
- 16-bit Microsoft® Windows® compatible sound device and speakers
Nero Live and Nero Live Gadget:
- TV tuner or video capture card for analog or digital (DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C, and ATSC) recording, compatible with the BDA (Broadcast Driver Architecture) driver standard.
- minimum one supported TV capture card and its drivers and minimum 2 GHz CPU (single CPU) for analog TV support if the TV card does NOT have an integrated hardware MPEG2 encoder on board.2,4 GHz or faster processor (HT or dual core recommended), fast hard drive with 7200 rpm, 2 GB RAM
- 2,4 GHz or faster processor (HT or dual core recommended), fast hard drive with 7200 rpm, 2 GB RAM
- 40GB HDD (higher capacity for TV recording recommend)
- 16-bit Microsoft® Windows® compatible sound device and speakers
- Microsoft DotNet Framework 3.0 or higher
For a list of supported capture cards please see: www.nero.com. [need link]
Special Requirements for video editing and authoring with Nero Vision
- For TV recording, DVD-Video authoring, capturing and burning in real time 2 GHz CPU and 512 MB RAM
- For analog or digital recording: TV tuner or video recording card
- OHCI compliant FireWire® card (IEEE 1394) for DV capturing
- For Smart 3D menus: DirectX® 9.0 compliant graphics card with 3D acceleration, 16 bit color, and a minimum of 64 MB video memory is required (32 bit, true color, 128 MB video RAM and support for Shader Model 3.0 is recommended)
- For High Definition Capturing and Editing: HD capable video board, FireWire® controller conforming to OHCI (IEEE 1394) for HDV recording, 2,4GHz or faster processor (HT or dual core), 1 GB of RAM or more
For a list of supported capture cards please see: www.nero.com.[need link]
Special Requirements for LightScribe and Labelflash™
- LightScribe compatible recorder and medium
- LightScribe host software must be installed
- Labelflash™ compatible recorder and medium
Special Requirements for working with high definition content with Nero Vision
- Intel Pentium IV 2 GHz or equivalent AMD and Intel processors (faster recommended)
- Blu-ray Disc drive with recording functionality for data, audio and video recording
- Minimum of 512MB RAM
- Windows XP SP2 or later; Windows 2003 server SP1 or later, Windows Media Center Edition 2005 SP 2
- Windows Vista or later
- Microsoft© Windows Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
- Microsoft© DirectX 9.0c (Oct 10th 2006) or later
For playback of unprotected high definition content, like AVCHD, additionally
One of the following processors:
- AMD Athlon 64 FX 2.6 GHz or faster
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.2 GHz or faster
- AMD Turion 64 X2 2 GHz or faster
- Intel Core Duo 2 GHz or faster
- Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or faster
- Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 3.2 GHz or faster
- Intel Pentium D 3.4 GHz or faster
1GB of RAM recommended
A graphics card with at least 256MB of video RAM based on one of the following:
- nVidia GeForce 6600GT, 7600GT, 7800GTX512, 7900GS, 7900GT, 7900GX, 7900GTX, 7950GT, 7950GTX, 8500, 8600, 8800, 8400M, 8600M or newer
- ATI X1600, X1650, X1800, X1900, X1950, Radeon HD series or newer
For playback of HDi interactive content on HD DVD-Video, the Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 or higher must be installed prior to installing Nero.
For playback of protected high definition content (home recorded BD-AV or AVCREC discs), additionally:
- For 64bit systems, Windows Vista or later is required
- The installed Blu-ray Disc drive must support AACS
- One of the following graphics setups
- PCI-Express/onboard video card with built-in display (e.g. notebook or integrated PC)
- PCI-Express video card with DVI/HDMI and HDCP-support, Display/TV with HDMI input or HDCP-enabled DVI input
- PCI-Express video card with VGA output and VGA monitor (some discs may not play or play with reduced resolution on analog displays)
- PCI-Express video card with component/video output and support for CGMS-A and Macrovision, TV/projector (some discs may not play or play with reduced resolution on analog displays)
- Latest graphics drivers with COPP support (ATI Catalyst 8.1, NVIDIA ForceWare 169.21 (Windows XP), ForceWare 169.25 (Windows Vista) or newer recommended)
Note
- To determine whether a display or TV supports HDCP, please check its documentation
- Some combinations of graphics cards, displays and discs may result in reduced resolution playback. Use of a HDCP-supporting card and display is recommended for best results
- An Internet connection will be required to maintain playback capability for AACS-protected Blu-ray Disc
Please note that these are the minimum requirements for basic functionality. If you are interested in more advanced features like TV recording or real-time capturing the requirements may be higher.
| Video/Audio Format | Number of Clients | Transcoding | Minimum CPU Requirement |
| SD | >1 | no | 1.2 GHz |
| HD (720p/1080i/Full) | >1 | no | 1.6 GHz |
| SD | 1 | yes | 2.0 GHz |
| SD | 2-3 | yes | 3.0 GHz Hyper-Threading or 2.3 GHz Dual Core |
| SD | >3 | yes | as much as available |
| HD (720p/1080i) | 1 | yes | 2.6 GHz Dual Core |
| HD (720p/1080i) | >1 | yes | as much as available |
| HD (Full) | 1 | yes | as much as available |
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