CyberLink's Power2Go supports all types of media formats, On the regular features front, it has everything to give Nero and CyberLink tough competition.
Features
Power2Go claims support for BluRay, as does Nero. But here, the support is more prominent: the interface sports three tabs CD, DVD, and Blu ray! It also supports creation of WMA music CDs and DVDs in addition to MP3 and WAV (the latter not on DVD), a feature not common to the other applications, except Easy Media Creator. As for the other necessary features, they're all there. The only notable package that comes bundled is the audio ripping tool.
Ease of Use
We thought CyberLink would extend their typical PowerDVD skinning to Power2Go that, thankfully, is not the case! CyberLink has adopted a simple design, which reduces the load on system memory.
The various burning formats such as data, audio and video were well sorted, and a newbie can use this software with ease. There's a neat 'Utilities' section that features disc image burning, audio ripping, and the audio converter. However, it does not provide configuration options such as setting the drive's write speed and allowing multi session when burning a disc
image.
Performance
Power2Go does not tax the system like Nero does. The memory usage and CPU usage were surprisingly moderate, allowing a user to run other applications such as a movie player while burning media. Along with Disc Master 2, Power2Go was the best when it came to the time taken to burn a CD with 690 NIB of data.
