When it comes to DVD, Roxio has never gotten it right on the PC side. Prassi was an up-and-comer at the time too, as well as the eventual CloneCD. It was creamed by competition from Nero, which was a much better program. Roxio was barely passable in the CD days, then known as Adaptec Easy CD Creator. except for EZCD Creator that's been almost a standard several yoear ago. So far I haven't seen anything that would make me believe that Roxio is sooo bad. It would be unreasonable to expect pro outome from a product priced like that. It may not be good enough for some but you need to understand that at a consumer level there's got to be some equivalency between price paid and output quality. Surprisingly you'll find several reviews saying that Roxio favourably compares with Sonic MyDVD and even beats it. Lastly the question is HOW bad is this 'bad'. By looking at the prices of Adobe Premiere and Roxio you may infer that this product is not on the same level but again I'd rather see the the evidence of that. That said no encoding results were presented here or publication that will show its clearly its encoding weaknesses/shortfalls as compared to for example TMPEG.īe careful with any blanket declarations not supported by hard data. Roxio is a consumer level application and by it's nature most likely won't deliver results as refined as a dedicated encoder.