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Review: CD&DVD Maker Titanium Suite |
Introduction:
NTI CD & DVD-Maker 7 Titanium Suite picks up where their Platinum Suite version left off – It includes nine powerful products that help you maximize your disc writer’s potential. The result is a versatile and complete burning solution built around one of the most reliable CD & DVD burning engines on the market.
Company Information:
NewTech Infosystems (“NTI”) is an industry leading developer of powerful, feature-rich, and easy-to-use software for Digital Media and Storage Management. NTI has developed and delivered innovative digital media and data backup solutions since being founded in 1993. As a pioneer in the world of CD burning technologies and software, NTI released the world’s first CD Copy software in December of 1995. Today, NTI’s CD/DVD burning engine has an established base of 70 million users worldwide; NTI also offers volume licensing and OEM products. On the web at: www.NTIus.com
Program Features:
CD and DVD Burning – With NTI’s software suite, users can store data files, organize digital photos, create a video library or enhance their music collection. Automated audio track volume balancing provides enhanced control when compiling audio CDs. In addition to detecting the correct seed available from the media and the drive, the software automatically selects the correct writing method and includes CD overburn support (burns to the edge of the CD for increased capacity), buffer underrun support and built-in cashing.
Backup/Recovery - File level backups are handled by Backup NOW! While DriveBackup! Your important data can be backed up to a local CD or DVD recorder or any attached device that provides drive letter access such as your hard drive, zip or jazz drives. Your backup data can be written to a single CD/DVD disc or span across several discs as necessary.
The first thing that you will notice about Backup NOW! is how it automatically customizes itself based on the operation you wish to perform. You can select from the Backup, Restore and Compare operations with the click of a button from the main toolbar. Backup NOW! does the rest.
In NTI’s Own Words:
Bill Yao, President and founder of NTI, is fond of saying, “Why make it so difficult?” This is why all of NTI’s software titles adhere to the principle of “Power With Simplicity”, Some might believe that it is impossible to make a program both feature-rich and easy-to-use, especially with complex tasks like burning CDs & DVDs, NTI has always made it a point to ensure that users have cutting-edge features and the technologies they want, but the also make sure they can easily figure out how to use them!
Test Machine:
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ Toledo
Ram: 2GB, 4X 512mb
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
Sound: Realtek AC97 Audio (on-board)
Hard Disk: 250GB Seagate X2
Optical Drives: BenQ DW1655, Lite-On SHM-165H6S
Software Requirements:
The minimum system requirements for the program are as follows,
Operating System: Windows 2000/XP Home or Pro (SP1 or later)
CPU: Pentium III 900 MHz or higher
Memory: 256 Megabyte or better
Display: 1024x768 resolution and 16-bit color
Hard Drive: 500 MB of available hard disk space (10 GB for copying or creating DVD discs)
Other: NTI-supported CD or DVD Writer (the complete listed of supported drives is available at: http://www.ntius.com)
Software Installation:
Installing the software was a fairly easy straight forward task. NTI recommends that you close all programs including virus-protection applications prior to the install of the Titanium Suite.
The program auto plays once inserted into the drive and comes up with the installation program. In order to install the complete NTI package you will need to install all three components separately; we installed them in the order they are show in the install window (see below).
We chose the default install options to include install locations.
It takes approximately 10 minutes to all three of the components. You will be asked you to restart your computer after each component is installed. Once done, you will be ready to see what this application can and can not do.
