Nero announced today that Nero 7 Essentials digital media software suite has been selected as the exclusive software package bundled with ASUSTeK?s new DVD-RW drives sold worldwide, beginning with the DRW-1814BL LightScribe DVD-RW drive released today. Nero 7 Essentials provides consumers with pre-mastering, recording, packet writing, and photo management applications. In addition, ASUSTeK drive purchasers will be offered a free 30-day trial of SVCD and DVD-Video playback, authoring, and encoding applications via download from www.nero.com.

Asus DRW-1814BL is a 18x8x16 DVD+RW, 18x6x DVD-RW, 48x32x40x CDRW, 8x DVD+/-DL and 14x DVDRAM.