Roxio announces Toast 10 at MacWorld

im not clear on this Toast 10...i had 8 for less than 4 months before 9 came out and i got it off of ebay because i wasnt going to pay full price for something i dont really use...

there is no way in he** im going to shell out any more money for 10...

i dont have an AVCHD camcorder and i dont have a BluRay player either...no interest...i used to use toast to download my tivo shows but then it takes hours to convert and encode for itunes use...

found iTivo from freemacware.com and love it...it downloads from my tivo and converts at the same time to the codec i choose, using mencoder or handbrake...and there is a dashboard widget that does pretty much the same thing

so i dont even open Toast anymore...only thing i ever really burn is a CD and i can use iTunes for that

or i use it sometimes when my optical drive wont eject...and that doesnt always work either

i dont know what Roxio is thinking with this...it should be 9 point something like someone else said...and if i want to do the bluray thing then it should be a plugin price

and there is also a freeware on google code that allows you to upload to the tivo too called pyTivoX...so i dont see the sense in this release

so in just over a year i have seen 3 releases of Toast...its a good program but its not that good...nonsense

and that is my 2¢...take it or leave it...peace out

I haven't upgraded Toast since version 5, and mainly was interested in the AVCHD/BluRay functionality. That plugin is being included free thru Feb. 5 with the standard version, BTW.

It worked straight out of the gate for me, as I was able to burn a hi-def file in AVCHD format to a standard DVD with no issues (other than encode time; about an hour+ for two three-minute flicks); but it played fine on my blu ray player, looked way better than an upconverted dvd; and you can customize the Toast menus just by dragging your own picture on top of their template interface. I thought that was pretty slick.

Googled around for a coupon code for 15% off; I'm very satisfied with the purchase for the moment.

I burn discs all the time. For my kids, to send stuff to printers. To give DVD's to family members. To back-up iMovie projects. To duplicate DVD movies I own so the originals are kept prestine. To back up programs like CS4 so I have an extra set of discs. To back-up dmg files I download (like toast 9)

Disc burning is not dead.

As for backing up to cloud?!? Please...I have 90 GB of stuff...how long would that take to back up? 15 days? More? Even if it takes 4 days, I don't want to wait 4 days to restore my laptop.

I do back-up to HD. Two of them. One using Time Machine and on using Superduper.

And let me say...Fotomagico is the best slideshow program out there. Period. Better than iPhoto.

So this seems like a pretty good thing. Maybe it's about $40 too much, but...

I never even bothered to upgrade to 9. Still use Toast 8 on a regular basis but don't really have a reason to upgrade. Wish they would work on a better/more standard/more space efficient interface for it.

It's kind of sad to see that so many have bought into Jobs' RDF assertion that physical media are dead.

And I've also had no trouble buring VIDEO_TS folders straight to DVD in earlier versions. (Though it's also annoying how few people create menus and chapters.)

Roxio won't get any more of my money. EVER!

Unfortunately this application is one of only two (the other being Adobe Encore) capable of burning Blu-ray video discs on the Mac. The end of the format war was supposed to end the uncertainty - now we're stuck in licensing hell.

I'm still on toast 8. I prefer toast for burning as apples built in burn functionality feels awkward to me.

I never use any if the extra apps or features bundled with toast and would only ever upgrade for compatibility with a new os.

I will say that I burn files to CD when I'm giving them to people and they are too large to email. I also burn music CDs for my car as my stereo has no iPod input. People are still burning CDs and DVDs but I wish there was a Toast basic with just the cd burner functions and not all the other bloat.

So. 9 months after Toast 9, they expect us to pony up another $99 bucks for ... what? This sounds like Toast 9 with lipstick.

Earth to Roxio. This is Toast 9.2, *not* Toast 10. You don't get to round up, no money for you... To everyone. 2009 promises to be a fiasco for retailers, so wait until this hits the bargain bin.

Mac users are NOT stupid. This is BAD BEHAVIOR on Roxio's part. Bad Roxio, no biscuit.

What, nobody's mentioned Disco or Burn or called Toast a bloated old dinosaur yet? ;) Seriously though, for what little disc burning I do Toast 9 works just fine for me. I see no reason to upgrade.