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Roxio releases Toast 9 with streaming

With their newly-updated Toast Titanium 9, it looks like Roxio is really embracing new ways of using media, moving beyond Toast's original disc-burning functionality. New features include AVCHD camcorder video conversion, support for creating Blu-ray and HD DVD discs (though why someone would want to make HD DVDs at this point is anybody's guess), automatic tagging of unknown audio tracks via their "audio fingerprint," internet audio stream recording, and more. Previous support for CD/DVD burning and TiVo video is naturally still included.

Perhaps most interesting is the new Roxio Streamer, which allows video streaming from your Mac to "your Wi-Fi connected iPhone, iPod Touch or to any Internet connected Mac or PC." It seems like Roxio has recognized that disc-burning has a limited future and is steadily moving Toast towards streaming, etc.

Toast 9 is $99.99, but previously registered users are eligible for a $20 mail-in rebate.

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TheM4inframe

The streaming to an iPod Touch doesn't work over the internet, or do you have to do something special like to go on youtube?

April 16 2008 at 10:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SweFran

I agree with Tony Crockford.
Only difference: I purchased from France.
Many US companies make us pay, in Euros, the same figure as for USD purchases. Which makes people in the Euro area pay 50% more for many US softwares. I recently made the same experience with BIAS audio software. The moment I punched in the country, the currency changed, but the amount: no, nada. Same figure.
Personally, I will try as far as possible to avoid buying from companies that apply this sales policy.

April 06 2008 at 11:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
g-dawg

Any thoughts on using an Apple TV versus a PS3 for streaming media?

March 18 2008 at 7:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris Newton

The streaming server works, and I have a tivo-to-go program running on it. I had to manually open port whatever, even though my router has UPnP. Oh well, minor speed bump.

Even though it gives you a URL to use, it's just forwarding it to your own machine. If you have a domain name set up to your home machine, you can hit it directly without going through Roxio's provided URL. Pretty cool.

March 18 2008 at 12:06 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris Newton

The BlueRay plugin is currently no extra cost, but if I recall they're only waving the $20 fee until April 12.

Also, I installed vs. 9 and it seems to have no trouble converting .tivo-to-go files for streaming. HOWEVER, the streaming server doesn't seem to work. OOPS. Also, if you search Roxio's website for "Streamer" the name of the streaming application, you get zero results returned. I'm guessing it's some opening night jitters, but they've been doing this long enough to get it right out of the gate. Amateur hour.

Anyway, it's decent at burning discs. We'll see what happens with the streaming after the dust settles.

March 17 2008 at 11:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
HineyWipe

WHAT? They want ANOTHER $20 for BluRay plugin??? Must be taking cues from Jobs on that magical $20 fee....

March 17 2008 at 11:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ricosuave

Am I missing something? My mac streams video to my iphone with its builtin webserver.

March 17 2008 at 10:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
KenC

Actually, more info on EyeTV's streaming over WAN would be nice too. I have found that some of these WAN setups are a bit demanding, so more info is needed before buying. For example, Slingplayer and BackToMyMac have specific router needs, NAT and UPnP, etc. upstream bandwidth, etc.

March 17 2008 at 8:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
KenC

Yeah, more details on the Streaming. Is it like EyeTV's streaming? I'm guessing so, since I remember the EyeTV folks wrote the Toast software under contract, or something like that. You can see how closely integrated EyeTV and Toast have been over the years.

March 17 2008 at 8:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Luke

Will it stream to Apple TV? Currently considering getting an Apple TV but holding off until I know I can stream my backlog of home movies and the like which are in DivX

Can TUAW update us on what can be done to get DivX on the new 2.0 edition of Apple TV.

I know it was possible to put Perian onto the original Apple TV but I have not heard about the latest version.

March 17 2008 at 7:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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