Gah. $80 upgrade fee for the minimal changes and bug fixes from Toast 9 last year?

There is only one other product I cna think of that started off as a great product, but then once it matured, it was pretty feature complete for what it did, and then just started throwing in stupid unrelated features as an excuse to charge high yearly upgrade fees. That product: StuffIt.

As someone who already owns a copy of Toast 9, I don't see any value in upgrading to Toast 10.

The Pro version is really just a bunch of bundled software which will only have an appeal to those who need to do those particular tasks.

Unfortunately the bundled software isn't neatly integrated into a proper overall workflow. In fact, each application has a distinct user interface with no consistent look and feel.

The whole thing feels like little more than a branding exercise by Roxio so that they can separate their product line into a Pro and standard version. The idea being to get users to buy the Pro version and thereby earn Roxio more money.

At the moment I'm seriously unimpressed by Roxio, as they are following in the footsteps of Smith Micro and how they have treated StuffIt.

Unless Toast or StuffIt provide some major new improvements for me in the future, I will no longer bother upgrading.

It's just not worth the money.

The killer feature that I am missing from Toast, is the ability to burn discs in several drives at the same time.

In this day of multitasking computers and ultra high-speed peripheral connections, why isn't that a feature?

I, too, am a bit put off by the upgrade price for the feature set. It doesn't seem to be a worthwhile upgrade. I usually buy their upgrades but am seriously considering skipping this one.

That's been possible for some time. All you have to do is duplicate (Command+D) the Toast application. Each instance of the app can run and burn simultaneously. (although I haven't tried it lately)

-phil

Didn't Toast 9 come out like yesterday?? This seems like a 9.0.5 update that should be free but they'd rather just 10.0 it and charge $xxx.

Anyway i love Toast btw.

I bought Toast 9 late 2007. The killer feature was a way to move files from my TiVO HD to my Mac to burn DVDs. I even bought the Blu-ray plug-in. But haven't gotten a Blu-ray drive yet, so I still need to amortize 9 before moving up - most likely to 11.

Besides, I have to get Filemaker Pro 10 first.

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Eric

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