Product Description

New Roxio Toast 8 Titanium complements the Mac OS and iLife software and sets the standard for burning CDs, DVDs, and now Blu-ray discs on the Mac. Create superior sounding audio CDs with smooth crossfades and transitions. Enjoy your TV shows anywhere with exclusive TiVoToGo and EyeTV burning. Convert and export video to iPod, PSP, mobile phone, and more. Burn files of any size, and automatically catalog the contents of your discs. Copy your audio CDs, movies and DVDs. There is no easier or faster way to save, share, and enjoy your digital media on disc. It’s your digital life, Toast It!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1544 in Software
• Brand: Roxio
• Model: 231000
• Released on: 2007-01-15
• Platforms: Mac OS X Intel, Mac OS X
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Dimensions: .54 pounds

Features

• Copy your audio CDs, movies and DVDs.
• Take your favorite TV shows to go, with easy TiVoToGo transfers
• Blu-ray Disc Support: Burn up to 50 GB - 12,500 music tracks, or 50,000 photos, or 4 hours of raw HD video.
• Restore and recover files from scratched or damaged discs while copying.
• Create DJ-style audio CDs with the same pro-quality audio features previously found in Roxio Jam.

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Roxio Toast 8 sets the standard for burning CDs, DVDs, and now Blu-ray discs on the Mac. Create superior sounding audio CDs with crossfades. Enjoy your TV shows anywhere with exclusive EyeTV burning and TiVoToGo transfers to DVD or iPod. Copy your audio CDs, movies and DVDs. It's your digital life, Toast It!

TV Shows Anywhere You Want Them Enjoy your favorite TV shows on DVD or on-the-go with Toast's exclusive support for TiVo and EyeTV digital video recorders. Watch your TiVo recorded shows on your Mac, burn your shows to DVD or DivX disc, or convert for your iPod, PSP or other portable player. Fred & Barney. Gilligan & The Skipper. Ernie & Bert, and now... TV & Toast - another perfect TV pair

Disc Catalog. What's On That Disc? Ever wonder what's on that disc you burned 2 years ago? Now you can automatically catalog and browse the contents of your discs - even when the discs are no longer in the Mac. Works great on discs burned with Toast, and other discs, such as your audio CDs. Toast is the easiest way to burn, and the Toast disc catalog is the easiest way to find what you've burned.

Mac & PC Data Spanning Burn files and folders of any size across multiple discs. Now you can safely backup massive video files or your iTunes library, and easily access on any Mac or Windows PC. Only Toast breaks through the size limitations that the Mac OS and all other burning software have.

Superior Quality Audio CDs and DVDs. Create great sounding audio CD mixes with features from Roxio's Jam software - smooth DJ-style crossfades, sound enhancing Audio Unit filters, and automatic level adjustment. Now anyone can sound like a pro, even if they aren't, with Toast's audio CDs and DVDs.

Mac & PC Photo Discs. Easily share your photos with friends and family with the new Toast Photo Disc. Store thousands of pictures at full resolution on a standard format disc for any Mac, PC, or photo finishing kiosk. Each disc displays a high quality slideshow, so you can enjoy the photos right away.

Copy & Convert DVDs. Pass The Popcorn. Backup an entire 9 GB DVD to a standard 4.7 GB DVD disc. Fit-to-DVD compression uses all available disc space to maximize video quality. Toast features Director's Cut custom compilations, so you can select specific video, audio and languages for your DVD, or convert DVDs and video files for your iPod, PSP, DivX or other portable video player.

Audio Conversion Assistant Go back to the future, and bring your classic LPs and tapes into the digital age. The CD Spin Doctor Assistant guides you step-by-step through everything from setting up the equipment, to recording, to splitting the audio into tracks and adding song information. Burn to disc, or enjoy on your iPod. Only Toast helps you rediscover your music on CD and DVD.

Blu-ray Disc Burning. Store up to 12,500 music tracks, 50,000 photos, or 4 hours of HD video on a single 50 GB Blu-ray Disc. Toast Dynamic Writing lets you use your Blu-ray Disc recorder like a giant hard disk drive - drag and drop directly onto the disc icon to add or remove files. Blu-ray burning is here today, and only Toast makes it possible on the Mac.

Features

Photo & Video

• NEW! TiVoToGo transfers to DVD, iPod or PSP
• NEW! Custom DVD menu backgrounds
• Improved! EyeTV burning to DVD, DivX or Blu-ray Disc
• Improved! Import and burn shows from set-top DVD recorders
• NEW! Full quality photo archive disc with slideshows
• Improved! Video copy to iPod, PSP, mobile phone, and more

Music

• NEW! Roxio Jam pro-quality audio mastering tools
• NEW! Dynamic DJ-style crossfades and transitions
• NEW! Audio processing, volume normalizing, and track trimming
• Improved! 50+ hour music DVDs with Dolby Digital sound
• Improved! Vinyl LP and tape conversion to CD, DVD or iPod

Burning & Copying

• Improved! One-click copy of audio CDs and movie DVDs
• NEW! File recovery for damaged discs
• NEW! Director's Cut custom copy compilations
• NEW! Preview movies and extras before copying
• Improved! Fit-to-DVD compression of 9 GB onto a 5 GB disc
• NEW! Mac & PC data spanning
• NEW! Cataloging and tracking of burned discs contents
• NEW! Blu-ray Disc support for burning up to 50 GB
• NEW! Blu-ray Disc burning directly from the desktop
• NEW! Integrated file browsing, data filters and Spotlight search

File Support

• Audio: AAC, AIFF, MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC, and Dolby Digital AC-3
• Video: AVI, DV, MOV, MPEG-1/2/4, DivX, XviD, VOB, VIDEO_TS folder, iMovie projects, EyeTV recordings, TiVoToGo transfers
• Photo: BMP, GIF, PDF, PSD, PNG, TIFF
• Images: ISO, BIN/CUE, IMG, DMG, CDR, NRG

UI Enhancements

• Streamlined user interface
• Floating media browser
• Rich informative visual feedback
• Customer-driven refinements

Customer Reviews

Still the very best
Toast has always been the best burning software on the Mac and this version is no exception. I had skipped over version 7 and wasn't sure about getting version 8 since I had the impression that much of what Toast does is already built into the Mac. Boy was I wrong. What comes with the OS, iTunes and iDVD barely scratches what Toast 8 can do. There's a reason why people continue to recommend this as a must have app on the Mac - it's gone way beyond burning of CDs and DVDs.

Likes:
* Data Spanning - a must have for EVERYONE - if you have files that are too big to fit onto a CD or a DVD (and it's really pretty easy to have this now... think video files or your iTunes library) Toast splits them and burns a piece onto every disc.... and you can take those discs to any Mac or PC to use them.
* Burn Catalog - this is cool - it keeps track of the contents of your discs - so you can see what's on them - even when the discs aren't in the computer anymore. I love this one...
* Music DVD - puts 1000 songs on a regular DVD so you can play it in your home theater system and see menus and album info while the song is playing.
* Photo Disc - my wife loves this one... makes great looking photo disc slideshows to send to PC users
* EyeTV - I use EyeTV to get TV shows onto the Mac - and this is THE ONLY way to burn DVDs of your recorded show - and it's fast.
* DIVX - I like to download DiVX files but iDVD can't turn them into DVDs - but this Toast can
* DVD copying - Roxio put all of the other product Popcorn into Toast - so if you want to copy DVDs or convert DVDs for iPod... don't get Popcorn - get this.
* Labeler - I like to make case inserts of the DVDs I burn and this labeler in Toast is really top notch.
* Printed manual - YES you read this right, it comes with a printed user guide... how cool is that?!

Dislikes:
* New look - I'm not such a huge fan of the "new and improved" UI... I was used to the old one in Toast 6 and it will take some time to get used to the new... I guess that the price you pay for progress.

Overall I'm really happy with this purchase. There aren't too many other apps you need to use the Mac, but this is one of them I think. If you've recently switched from a PC to the Mac and you're looking for a burning program - this is the one to get.

Just so you're aware... "TiVoToGo" feature may not work.
Toast 8 Titanium is a worthwhile upgrade for the program. The GUI for the program has changed somewhat. Significantly enough that you'll notice. But not so much that there would be a learning curve to get around when using it. The whole thing is pretty much plug-n-play. If you're familiar with Toast 7, this will be a snap for you. If not, everything is fairly well spelled out, if not obvious for a mid-level Mac user. If you can do drag and drop functions, you can use Toast 8.

One of the big selling points for this program is the integration of TiVoToGo capabilities. This has been elusive to Mac users up until now. For many, it will still be elusive. What you will find out upon installation is that it will work with properly equipped Series 2 or Series 3 boxes. However, it will not work with DirecTv supplied TiVo units. Also, you should be aware that not all TiVo units have their USB ports enabled. Thus causing an issue with connecting to your existing network. There are work-arounds for these issues. But using them may void the waranty on your TiVo.

Overall, I'm happy with the purchase. The program works faster on my Intel iMac than Toast 7. But I still wish the TiVoToGo would work in my home.

It does what I need
Toast 8, just does what I need. I bought Toast because I needed support for a new DVD burner that neither the basic OS (10.4) nor my slightly old version of iDVD would support. It offers easy to understand interface that I've come to expect from a first class Mac app (and have found lacking in Disk Copy). Toast burns my dual layer DVDs just fine. It burns everything else I've thrown at it just fine as well. It also solved a problem that I had just accepted before. When making backups for remote storage, it seamlessly spans multiple CDs and DVDs. It tells me how many disks I'm going to need before I get started. It guides me through the entire process.

One of the bundled apps that I didn't expect to use is Deja Vu, the backup/mirroring/etc. Utility. I have several shareware backup utilities and was reasonably happy with them. I've found however, that they cannot compare with Deja Vu for flexibility, power and ease of use. It has become the new backup standard at my house.

There is a ton of other capabilities in this package that I just haven't gotten to use yet but I an extremely pleased with this package and would not hesitate to recommend it to other users.