Nero Burning ROM

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Nero Burning ROM

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Developer:	Nero AG
Latest release:	7.5.9.0A / November 27, 2006
OS:	Windows, Linux
Use:	Optical disc authoring software
License:	Shareware
Website:	www.nero.com

Nero Burning ROM is a popular optical disc authoring program for Microsoft Windows and Linux by Nero AG, formerly Ahead Software. Nero Express is commonly bundled as an OEM application with CD and DVD burners.

1 Features and availability
2 Nero StartSmart
3 Name
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Features and availability

Since version 6, Nero has been bundled with many other sub-applications such as Nero Wave Editor (for editing audio files), Nero ImageDrive (for mounting virtual CDs), Nero BackItUp (for backup of filesystems or whole disks) and Nero Recode (for backup of unencrypted DVDs and MPEG-4 conversions). Since version 7, Nero Vision (DVD authoring tool) is bundled in the Premium package.

Nero works with a number of CD-image formats, including the common ISO image and its proprietary NRG file format.

A Linux port of the application (NeroLINUX) was announced as a free "upgrade" from the Microsoft Windows version in March 2005. The application replicates most features of the Windows version, and uses the GTK+ graphical toolkit.

Nero software is available in multiple variations. The most common are the OEM suites, which are bundled with most CD and DVD recorders. Nero also sells full-featured versions, called Premium for the European market and Ultra Edition for the North American market. For reasons that are not entirely clear, North American purchasers of Nero 7 (Ultra Edition) are not entitled to LabelFlash or DiscT@2 support, although their European counterparts (buying Nero 7 Premium) are. This appears to be the only difference between Nero 7 Premium and Nero 7 Ultra Edition.

Early versions of Nero version 6 would only burn data DVDs using the ISO file system. Though DVD drives seemed to have no difficulty reading single-layer discs, the compatibility of dual-layer discs was more patchy.

Version 7.5.1.1 of Nero Burning ROM introduced support for LightScribe and Blu-ray Disc recording.

[edit] Nero StartSmart

Nero StartSmart is a part of the Nero Burning ROM 6 software that refers users to a number of operations available to do with the CD-ROM inserted to the computer (a larger number of operations are available if you run the program in expert mode) and a couple of other operations related to the computer itself.

[edit] Name

The program's name is intended to be a play on words. Recording CDs and DVDs is often known as "burning", and the infamous Roman Emperor Nero is said to have played his lyre as Rome burned. This pun is more obvious in the original German as the German name for Rome is Rom (a literal English translation would be Nero Burning ROMe.