{"id":1472,"date":"2009-08-18T10:54:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T14:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2009-08-18T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T14:55:15","slug":"betalogue-blog-archive-toast-10-titanium-pro-purchase-at-your-own-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/betalogue-blog-archive-toast-10-titanium-pro-purchase-at-your-own-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Betalogue &raquo; Blog Archive &raquo; Toast 10 Titanium Pro: Purchase at your own risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Roxio&#8217;s Toast CD\/DVD disk burning software has been (in my opinion) coasting on it&#8217;s good name.  It&#8217;s a good package, but it&#8217;s overly expensive, and Roxio doesn&#8217;t support it well&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>You run into situations where the software is 95% bug free, and Roxio seems to not care about fixing all the bugs, instead your asked to purchase the next major release to get an almost fully functional product.<\/p>\n<p>Why?  Simply because they can&#8217;t get the previous version fully functional for over 18 months, before Apple releases a new version of the OS&#8230;  And then of course, the previous version isn&#8217;t supported on the new OS&#8230;  Or at least, that&#8217;s what it seems like&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and did I mention that their upgrade offers aren&#8217;t that good?  You virtually pay full price for an upgrade&#8230;.  And their usually isn&#8217;t enough new features to justify paying full price&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a good example of Roxio&#8217;s confusion, and inability to support their flagship product&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betalogue.com\/2009\/08\/17\/toast-10\/\">Toast 10 Titanium Pro: Purchase at your own risk<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few weeks ago, I got a promotional e-mail from Roxio inviting me to purchase the latest version of its flagship CD\/DVD recording software for Mac OS X, Toast 10 Titanium Pro, for a special price of $100. (It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s normally listed for $150. The special price meant that it was the same price as Toast 10 without the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 part, i.e. without the extra software.)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really need to upgrade my existing copy of Toast (Toast 8 Titanium, purchased in early 2007), which was still working fine and meeting my needs. But Roxio tends not to have very attractive purchasing options once you skip a version number, so I knew that if I ever decided I needed to upgrade my copy of Toast, I would have to pay something close to the full price anyway\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand now for that price I could get the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 version. The only extra software that I was really interest&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.betalogue.com\/2009\/08\/17\/toast-10\/\">View the rest of the article at Betalogue \u00c2\u00bb Toast 10 Titanium Pro: Purchase at your own risk<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Roxio&#8217;s Toast CD\/DVD disk burning software has been (in my opinion) coasting on it&#8217;s good name. It&#8217;s a good package, but it&#8217;s overly expensive, and Roxio doesn&#8217;t support it well&#8230;. You run into situations where the software is 95% bug free, and Roxio seems to not care about fixing all the bugs, instead <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/betalogue-blog-archive-toast-10-titanium-pro-purchase-at-your-own-risk\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,67],"tags":[41,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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