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Nero Introduces Ultimate 3-in-1 Bundle for Video Editing, Burning and Backup: Nero Multimedia Suite 10

Celebrating its 15th Anniversary, Nero delivers a pivotal new release with three comprehensive and enhanced standalone products bundled into one powerful multimedia suite: Nero Vision Xtra, Nero Burning ROM and Nero BackItUp & Burn

Karlsbad, Germany (March 29, 2010) - Nero, creators of liquid media technology, today introduced Nero Multimedia Suite 10, providing a fundamental shift from previous offerings of ‘all-in-one’ integrated applications to a new powerful multimedia bundle consisting of three standalone products. The three comprehensive products that make up Nero Multimedia Suite 10 are Nero Vision Xtra, which is dedicated to media organisation, advanced video editing and HD movie creation; Nero Burning ROM for disc burning and copying; and Nero BackItUp & Burn for backing up, synching and restoring data. These three robust products, plus additional multimedia tools, will grant home hobbyists a powerful solution which meets their multimedia project needs, yet provides ease of use, all at a great value.

“Tools like Nero Multimedia Suite 10 have the ability to grow the market for photo and video editing,” said Kurt Scherf, Vice President and Principal Analyst with Parks Associates. “Already, the percentage of consumers in U.S. broadband households that self-edit home videos on a regular basis has grown from 10 percent in 2006 to 25 percent in 2009. Today, nearly one-half of consumers are regularly editing photos, up from 35 percent in 2006.”

Home hobbyists who enjoy creating and editing their home videos will greatly benefit from this product bundle. Nero Multimedia Suite 10 offers easy music, photo and video file management, advanced video editing which provides optimised HD performance with SmartEncoding and Blu-ray Disc authoring. Additionally, it delivers superior disc burning, reliable backup technology and multimedia tools to enhance their creativity.

“During Nero’s fifteen years in business, more than 300 million customers have enjoyed using Nero’s product offerings to manage their content at home, on-the-go and online,” said Jürgen Kurz, CEO, Nero AG. “Nero Multimedia Suite 10 was developed using extensive market research and incorporating the feedback from over 150,000 consumers and home hobbyists. The feedback showed that existing ‘all-in-one’ offerings in the market are considered outdated and work more like Swiss army knives, being the ’jack of all trades and the master of none’. As a result, Nero set out to create a true multimedia suite that offers separate, best-of-breed products dedicated to video creation and management, burning and backup. Nero Multimedia Suite 10 not only meets the needs of today’s customers, it also provides an incredible value.”

Nero Multimedia Suite 10 consists of the following products:

Nero Vision Xtra

The all new Nero Vision Xtra is a combination of two robust, fully integrated applications: Nero MediaHub and Nero Vision.

Nero MediaHub is the home base for playback, management and simple editing of multimedia files. It features an easy-to-use interface that lets users quickly organise, sort, search, play back and share music, photo and video files, organise music playlists, as well as create and edit slideshows with high quality Movie Themes – all from one place. From the same window, play back the most popular audio, video and photo formats such as AVCHD, MKV, FLV, FLAC, DVD, non-commercial Blu-ray, MPEG-4 AVC, (S)-VCD, AVCREC, audio CDs, as well as music playlists and slideshows. Easily publish music, slideshows and video projects to CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs (including 24 progressive frame high quality cinema formats) or upload to leading social media communities, including YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Flickr and the My Nero community.

Nero Vision is fully enhanced to provide professional-looking results with advanced video editing and authoring tools for Standard and High Definition movies. It includes cutting-edge features such as true multi-track editing, advanced Picture-in-Picture and overlay effects with full key frame control, Pan & Zoom, Chroma Key, Image Matt, Lens Distortion, Sharpen, Edge Feathering, Earthquake and more. Users can look like pros with over 60 Menu Templates which can be used for creating disc menus (sports, kids & family, holiday, business and various other themes) including standard 2D, animated 2D and smart3D. To spruce up photos and videos, Nero Vision includes over 150 Clipart options like bubbles, lines, borders and frames.

Nero Vision also delivers superb HD performance including SmartEncoding for MPEG 2 and AVCHD, as well as NVIDIA CUDA™ support for high-performance hardware accelerated H.264/AVC encoding. In addition, Nero Vision enables users to export to a large variety of file formats, including online, CDs, DVDs, AVCHD and Blu-ray Discs. It’s the perfect product for those home hobbyists who want to make an impact with their projects.

Nero MediaHub and Nero Vision work together seamlessly to bridge between basic and advanced video editing. Users can start a slideshow or home video project in Nero MediaHub and seamlessly transfer their project into Nero Vision by clicking on the “advanced editing” button. Packed with powerful features, Nero Vision Xtra lets users easily transform home video projects into cinema-quality High Definition movies and share them with family and friends.

Nero Burning ROM

When it comes to burning and copying CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, Nero Burning ROM delivers the industry’s leading burning solution. Loaded with features that go beyond just burning, Nero Burning ROM provides reliable, uninterrupted burns with superb playback quality of burned content. Nero Burning ROM also integrates the recently announced SecurDisc™ 2.0 technology to increase the lifespan, reliability, security and integrity of user’s burned content. Its superb quality ensures long-lasting results that are readable regardless of scratches, age or deterioration. Working with any optical recording drive, SecurDisc 2.0 now includes support for Blu-ray Discs, in addition to CDs and DVDs. Plus, Nero SecurDisc Viewer is automatically included with every burn and works without installation or drivers. Users can easily protect their confidential data from unauthorised access with password protection and encryption, while ensuring its authenticity with digital signatures.

Using the Nero DiscSpan and Nero DiscMerge utilities, users can burn oversized files to multiple discs or different types of media and then merge them back together again. Plus, Nero Burning ROM has also been enhanced with support for new burning compilations and now supports AVCHD for DVDs and AVCHD / BD-MV for Blu-ray Discs.

Nero BackItUp & Burn

Nero BackItUp & Burn is the ultimate in data protection providing reliable backup and recovery capabilities for all user’s valuable personal photos, music, videos and documents. Easily back up files, folders, drives and the entire system in a few easy steps. With state-of-the-art backup technology, users can secure files and protect entire systems from the effects of hard drive crashes, system failures and virus attacks. Launch the one-click Autobackup function, select the target and it automatically backups files in the background without intrusion. In addition, it’s easy to schedule regular backups with various methods, compression and protection levels to secure files.

Rest assured that any lost or deleted data can be safely recovered and restored quickly and easily, even from digital cameras, thumb drives or damaged media.

Nero BackItUp & Burn is not only about backup, recovery and restoration, but also about syncing data between computers and mobile devices for easy access to files and folders when on the go. With Nero BackItUp & Burn’s syncing features, files and folders can be synched directly to hard drives, laptops and USB flash drives or online.

PLUS Nero Multimedia Suite 10 – Multimedia Tools

Besides all the new applications and features, Nero Multimedia Suite 10 also contains well-known tools like:

  • Nero StartSmart – An updated GUI on this task-oriented command center makes it easy to access music, photo and video editing, burning, or backup applications. It includes an integrated Nero StartSmart Knowledge Center to increase user skills through online access to step-by-step tutorials and manuals, networking with the My Nero community, sharing blogs and tips with other Nero users and available add-ons and updates.
  • Nero DiscCopy Gadget – Quickly perform simple disc-copying operations from the desktop.
  • Nero CoverDesigner – Create custom covers, labels and booklets for CD and DVD cases and more.
  • Nero SoundTrax – Create 5.1 surround mixes and digitise music from vinyl records or cassette tapes.
  • Nero WaveEditor – Edit music using various effects and sound enhancement tools.
  • Nero Recode – Automatically convert and compress DVD-Video or video files while maintaining optimal playback quality.
  • Nero Toolkit – Increase PC performance with tools to manage rights, analyze discs and display system information.

Pricing and Availability

Pre-sale of Nero Multimedia Suite 10 starts today at www.nero.com for just £59.99. Starting April 12th, Nero Multimedia Suite 10 will be available in retail stores worldwide with a suggested retail price of £59.99.

Current Nero 9 users and previous version users can upgrade to Nero Multimedia Suite 10 at a special discounted price at www.nero.com.

New products such as Nero Vision Xtra (£49.99), Nero Burning ROM (£39.99) and Nero BackItUp & Burn (£29.99) will only be available for purchase and download online at www.nero.com beginning April 12th.

For more information on Nero and its history, please visit www.nero.com. Become a fan of Nero on Facebook at www.facebook.com/nerosoftware, follow Nero on Twitter (@NeroSolutions) or join the My Nero community at http://my.nero.comwww.facebook.com/nerosoftware, follow Nero on Twitter (@NeroSolutions) or join the My Nero community at http://my.nero.com.

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SecurDisc 2.0: Nero Updates Optical Storage Media Security Technology

Now Ensure Data Reliability, Add Personal Passwords and Encryption to CDs, DVDs & Blu-ray Discs Using Any Optical Recording Drive

CeBIT 2010, Hannover, Germany (March 3rd, 2010) — Nero, creators of liquid media technology, today announced plans to update its SecurDisc data protection technology in April 2010. SecurDisc 2.0 extends the lifespan of burned content on CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs by increasing the chances of retrieving data from damaged discs, regardless of scratches, age or deterioration, protecting data from unintended alteration and access, and enabling the verification of the originator of the data using digital signatures.

The average life expectancy of an optical disc is between two and five years; yet, unforeseen events can decrease the lifespan even more. According to a survey of 1,000 American households commissioned by the National Consumers League, respondents re-purchased an average of two commercial DVDs because the disc was lost or damaged. This number is significantly higher among households with children. The number of defective DVDs is likely even higher with non-commercial DVDs burnt at home. Recognizing the need to improve disc longevity so that consumers can enjoy content they’ve created or access important data, Nero developed and integrated SecurDisc technology into its products in order to meet the consumer demand.

SecurDisc 2.0 is the new industry standard for optical drive security and data reliability. It will now provide a full feature set of data security-related functions, regardless of the optical recording hardware and media being used – including Blu-ray Discs. This simple to use solution increases the chances of retrieving files if an optical disc is damaged or scratched, ensures the security of important files by guaranteeing that data cannot be altered accidently or maliciously through password protection and encryption, and lets people verify the authenticity of files with the originator’s digital signatures.

“Data stored on CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs is even more vulnerable to theft, loss, damage, unauthorized access and copying than information stored on a hard drive,” said Kris Barton, EVP of Global Products, Nero AG. “SecurDisc 2.0 provides customers with multiple levels of data protection and accessibility using both storage-level and user-level security. Most importantly, this technology will be available to anyone with an optical burning drive.”

SecurDisc combines higher data reliability through data storage redundancy and defect management with encryption, password protection and digital signatures to safeguard the most valuable and confidential data stored on optical storage media, expanding the longevity of the optical disc. Once a disc is created using SecurDisc 2.0, the password protected data can be viewed using the new SecurDisc Viewer app embedded on the media. All a user needs to do is insert the optical disc in a drive and it will automatically run without the need to install any additional software. When the correct password is entered, the data will be automatically decrypted and accessible to the recipient of the disc.

SecurDisc 2.0 will be included in future Nero software products. For more information about SecurDisc 2.0, please visit www.nero.com or contact the Nero PR team.

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Crystal Anniversary: Nero Celebrates 15 Years of Delivering Quality Digital Media Products to Consumers Globally

Product Line has Expanded to Offer Best-in-Class Optical Disc Burning, Backup and Multimedia Management & Editing Software Applications, plus Mobile Solutions

CeBIT 2010, Hannover, Germany (March 3, 2010) - Nero, creators of liquid media technology, today celebrated its 15th Anniversary in business by announcing that more than 300 million copies of its popular digital media management software had now been distributed worldwide. Nero’s software is known globally for its reliability, user-friendliness and rich set of features, setting the standard with its industry-leading burning application, Nero Burning ROM, and more recently, with its data protection technology, SecurDisc. Leading PC and optical drive manufacturers proudly bundle Nero software with their hardware in order to provide their customers with the best in digital media solutions and the ability to enjoy their content. Nero products are available for purchase at leading electronics and home entertainment stores worldwide and are downloadable online at www.nero.com and other leading etailers.

The privately-held company, which was originally founded in 1995 as Ahead Software GmbH, has now grown into a global market leader on the strength of its Nero Burning ROM software, which has gained worldwide recognition as the application of choice for burning optical media (CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs). This software is used especially to quickly and easily back-up personal music collections or important data files.

“We are excited to celebrate this milestone and plan to take the feedback we’ve received from our millions of customers during the last 15 years and make Nero’s products, customer service and support even better than they already are,” said Juergen Kurz, Nero’s COO. “We want our users to continue to associate the Nero brand with the best burning, backup, data protection, authoring and editing software on the market.”

In an effort to solve the highly specific digital content needs of today’s diverse digital consumers, the company has expanded its software portfolio during the last five years to encompass data backup and recovery, as well as multimedia management and editing software.

Today, Nero’s flagship offerings include:

- Nero 9 – Reloaded is the easy-to-use, yet powerful, multimedia suite, which gives users the freedom to create, rip, copy, burn, edit, share and upload media content (music, video, photo, and data) online.

- Nero BackItUp & Burn provides consumers with the freedom to back up content on their hard drive to a wide variety of media types or online, to sync files and folders or to recover and restore data from deleted and damaged storage media.

- Nero Move It enables consumers to simply transfer and enjoy their music, videos, and photos across a wide variety of digital devices including their PCs, MP3 players, cell phones (including the iPhone), and more.

Nero also expanded into the mobile arena with Nero MobileSync, a universal, hardware-agnostic platform of fully customizable PC-to-device connectivity applications to enable the management, sharing and creation of content between the desktop, mobile handsets, and the Web regardless of mobile device. Already, Nero MobileSync powers MOTOROLA MEDIA LINK, which allows consumers to seamlessly move and enjoy their personal media content on their Android-based mobile handsets, the desktop and the Web.

Other notable Nero milestones:

- More than 50 million people worldwide are actively using Nero products regularly;

- The nero.com Web site receives >120 million unique visits per year; and

- More than 1.3 million registered users have joined the MyNero online community.

Nero will be showcasing and demonstrating its products and new technologies in Hall 15, Booth C16 at CeBIT 2010 in Hannover, Germany this week. For more information on Nero and its history, please visit www.nero.com.

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Nero und Microsoft Expression Studio - Case Study: Ansprechende Benutzeroberflächen gestalten

Die Softwarelösung Nero BackItUp & Burn sichert Familienfotos, wichtige Finanzdokumente, die Musiksammlung und vieles mehr. Systemabstürze, Festplattenfehler und Schädlinge wie Viren können Dateien zerstören. Unabhängig davon, ob einzelne Dateien, ganze Partitionen oder Festplatten gesichert werden sollen – Nero BackItUp beherrscht alle Varianten. Seit der Markteinführung zusammen mit Nero 6 im Jahr 2003 wurde die Funktionsvielvalt dieser Anwendung stetig erweitert.

Für Nero BackItUp 5 stand eine komplette Überarbeitung der Benutzeroberfläche an – mit dem Ziel, Backups und das Wiederherstellen von Daten für den Benutzer deutlich zu vereinfachen. Neben diesen Usability-Aspekten sollte auch eine rein visuelle Überarbeitung stattfinden. Die 5. Generation der Datensicherungssoftware sollte ein komplett neues Design erhalten. Dabei standen Benutzerfreundlichkeit und eine klare, durchgängige grafische Gestaltung im Vordergrund.

Diese Situation nahm Nero zum Anlass, Expression Studio von Microsoft zum ersten Mal im größeren Stil einzusetzen. Zum damaligen Zeitpunkt lag Microsoft Expression Studio in Version 2 vor. Auf neue Funktionen wie beispielsweise SketchFlow konnte daher leider noch nicht zugegriffen werden.

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Nero MediaHome 4 - Simply stream music, videos, and photos throughout your home and enjoy

Nero MediaHome 4 lets you enjoy digital media content throughout your connected home network. Do you have all your MP3s stored on your PC, but want to stream them to your party outdoors? Want to watch movies in your living room that you have stored on your PC in the office? With Nero MediaHome 4, you can stream all your digital media easily and wirelessly throughout your home! State-of-the-art features ensure music, videos, and photo files are compatible on all your supported devices, regardless of format. Now you can stream your favorite digital media content to compatible devices, including to your Xbox 360™ and PLAYSTATION® 3 game consoles. Intuitive categorization features within Nero MediaHome 4 make organizing your multimedia files a snap!

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Nero Expands Music Capabilities of Nintendo DSi™

Nero, creators of liquid media technology, today introduces Nero Music2Go software, customized for the Nintendo DSi system. The new offering allows users to extend the features of their portable game system to rip and transfer music files from the desktop to Nintendo DSi. Nero Music2Go is the second iteration of the recently announced Nero MobileSync platform, a universal, hardware-agnostic toolkit of fully customizable PC applications for mobile handset, Netbook, gaming console and Ultra-Mobile PC manufacturers.
Nero Music2Go is a dedicated PC companion software for Nintendo DSi, providing simple conversion of music from CDs or from files stored on the PC to AAC (Advanced Audio Coding file format) and transferring it to the Nintendo DSi system - all through an easy and intuitive user interface. In addition, music playback on the PC and accessing detailed song, artist, and album information (powered by Gracenote®) completes the offering.  
“Users of the Nintendo DSi portable game system can now take advantage of an easy gateway to their favorite music via the PC. Our collaboration with Nintendo underscores the Nero commitment to enjoyment of digital content regardless of device,” said Udo Eberlein, CEO, Nero AG. “Nero Music2Go was built on the Nero MobileSync platform, offering portable device manufacturers a customizable white label platform for device-to-PC connectivity and content management. The ability to enjoy your content anytime, anywhere is an important part of the future of digital content distribution.”
Nero Music2Go for Nintendo DSi is available as a downloadable version at £4.99 from www.nero.com/nintendodsi. For more information on Nero and Nero products, please visit www.nero.com.