I was anxious to get started so I chose the electronic download. After installation, I updated to the latest version. Three hours later, I had edited 4 hour long videos and burned each to DVD. Very smooth operation, yet many options are available that I haven’t even gotten to try out. I’ll be honest, the machine I’m using this software on was designed and built to take advantage of multi-threaded processing/rendering and it has preformed most efficiently.

After using Nero 7; this release is awful. It’s awful because it fails to do the most simplest of tasks that version 7 had no problem with what-so-ever. I have nothing against any other reviewers but I sit here and wonder, how on earth could this release, muster any praise what-so-ever. If I hadn’t purchased the retail box, I would have easily assumed this was a beta alpha release. It wasn’t in any way, shape or form, ready for end-user consumption.

This my first year of using H&R Block tax software. I had used a competitors product for years but that’s a story for another day. This software is straight forward and very easy to use. I found the program immediately gave exceptional information not only for the 2014 taxable year but a way I can maximize deductions the competitors software never suggested. I e-filed both federal and state and was notified less than two hours later my federal return had already been accepted.

Acronis has always worked well as did my old version until I had a hard drive crash and the old version wouldn’t recognize a secondary 1TB drive upon re-installing the old version. Sad because other users had complained about this very issue. The current version 2014 (3 license pack) I’ve only installed on one machine so far with all other machines still using the older version. I also seenAcronis (like so many other software companies) monetizing the concept of one machine per license installation.

The last media create/editor/organizer package I used was Roxio Creator 2009 but I got tired of it not really being supported on Windows 7 so seeing this package and it also having blu-ray support and Windows Media Center TV file support I jumped on it. Here are the specs for the system I am using it on (DIY system)nIntel Core i5-3570K CPUnIntel 180GB SSDnHIS 512MB HD5670 GPUn8GB DDR3-1600 RAM (2 x 4GB)nLite-On IHBS112 blu-ray burnernnThe first thing that attracted me to this package was the claim of WMC TV file support.

There have been a lot of reviews here with folks unhappy about the changes to Deluxe forcing them to pay more for Premiere. If you have your own small business, you’ve already been using Home and Business in the past so like me, you’re not going to see any changes since this is the highest tier edition anyway. As of this review, the pricing also looks to be a little less than last year for Home and Business.

I’ve been trying to use this suite of applications for a while now, comparing it to my favorite suite, Roxio Creator, and I haven’t had much luck. I think the problem is I am looking for features that the application just doesn’t have? It’s also not very stable and I can tell you that it’s not my system. I built my system myself and it’s fully loaded with a Phenom II triple-core processor, 4GB of RAM, Windows 7 and all the bell and whistles lovingly maintained by myself.

I’ve been using this product quite a bit in this past year to clone hard drives to solid-state drives and it does a very good job. To do this, you use the included disk to boot into the Acronis operating system from which you can choose to let it decide automatically for you the source and destination or manually. I always go with manual just to be sure that it does not get reversed somehow.

Item as stated and fast shipping

Item as stated and fast shipping