Curious About Toast 12

[tsantee]

I'd like to hear from someone who buys Toast 12 about what applications are included in the Toast Titanium folder. Toast 11 came with Disc Cover, TiVo Transfer, Mac2TiVo, GetBackup, DiskCatalogMaker and the unusable Spin Doctor. I think Roxio stopped including the TiVo apps with the Toast 11 downloads as they didn't work with the TiVo Roamios. There's no mention of anything included with Toast 12 other than an updated version of DiskCatalogMaker.

 

If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Toast, rename your old Toast Titanium folder before running the Toast 12 installer. That way you keep everything that is in the older folder until you can be confident you don't want it any more. It's also a good idea to keep the earlier version of the Toast application until you are certain Toast 12 does not have bugs in the features you want to use.

 

The Blu-ray plugin is no longer needed in Toast 12 to burn Blu-ray format videos to standard DVD discs. However, it is needed to burn Blu-ray format videos to Blu-ray discs. Roxio is selling Toast DVD via the App Store and it also can burn Blu-ray format to standard DVD. But it won't recognize the Blu-ray plugin at all, as I understand it.

[hermie54]

My email just came in and had the 60 and 100 prices. However, as usual the US Dollar sign has been conveniently replaced by a Euro sign. Meaning a double ripoff. Yet again.

[bohalloran]

Check out this page, has all the specs, a compare between the two and features. Also seems like either new features or apps, not sure.

 

http://www.roxio.com/enu/upgrade_center/toast/

[hermie54]

Hi tsantee,

 

I took the plunge and upgraded to the cheaper Toast 12 Titanium (got Leawoo Bluray burning thingie as a freebie somewhere and don't own a Bluray recorder anyway) and besides Toast Titanium only DiscCatalogMaker RE and Live Screen Capture are in the version 12 folder.

[tsantee]

Hi tsantee,

 

I took the plunge and upgraded to the cheaper Toast 12 Titanium (got Leawoo Bluray burning thingie as a freebie somewhere and don't own a Bluray recorder anyway) and besides Toast Titanium only DiscCatalogMaker RE and Live Screen Capture are in the version 12 folder.

So live screen capture is a separate app and not a function within Toast. Hmmm. I wonder if it will show up in the App Store. It seems a big reach to call this Toast 12.

[hermie54]

Yep, except for its icon all looks exactly the same. To me it's more a bug fix and compatibility issues with OSX 10 then a new version. Haven't used it yet, though. But on first glance it's more or less a money grab by Corel. Ehmmm sure, they got mine...

[DDW]

Money grab is right! I've bought nearly every version of Toast (for Mac) and am less than happy to find that the 'upgrade' prices of $59.99 and $99.99 are EXACTLY the SAME as the special offer prices extended to anyone. And you can upgrade to version 12 at that same 'upgrade' price even if you haven't purchased anything since version 8. Geez.

 

Version 10 had bugs that didn't get fixed until version 11, and now we're expected to pay for a new version that fixes bugs in 11?! No thanks. I recognize a ripoff when I see it.

[tsantee]

Money grab is right! I've bought nearly every version of Toast (for Mac) and am less than happy to find that the 'upgrade' prices of $59.99 and $99.99 are EXACTLY the SAME as the special offer prices extended to anyone. And you can upgrade to version 12 at that same 'upgrade' price even if you haven't purchased anything since version 8. Geez.

 

Version 10 had bugs that didn't get fixed until version 11, and now we're expected to pay for a new version that fixes bugs in 11?! No thanks. I recognize a ripoff when I see it.

I don't know if they expect many Toast 11 users to buy Toast 12. My guess is they want to keep the full version on the market without it falling behind what they are selling in the App Store, although those differences seem rather minor. You presume it has bug fixes but we don't know that. I would be shocked if they didn't continue to make Toast 11 compatible with Apple's new OS because it is still in their supported apps list. It may be that Toast 10 moves to the retired list. Time will tell.

[edbeta]

Toast 12 Titanium was $29.99 upgrade with a link received by e-mail from Corel yesterday and at this price i have buy it , great companion to Apple FCP X and Compressor.

[tsantee]

Toast 12 Titanium was $29.99 upgrade with a link received by e-mail from Corel yesterday and at this price i have buy it , great companion to Apple FCP X and Compressor.

Nice! My email had $60 and $100 as the price. I need to get on the list you're on. My email didn't mention upgrade pricing. The only upgrade price I saw was on the Roxio product Web page which is the same as the introductory price in the email.