If the Nero CD burning frenzy still hasn’t got you but you agree that it is one of the most powerful burning solutions ever created, you can now experience its powers in another way.

Nero ShowTime is an application that attempts to benefit from Nero’s great image on the software market to step into another world: the one where users look for video players able to play all formats out there.

Nero ShowTime isn’t exactly the kind of software solution to play all formats, so it’s only compatible with a few extensions, but it manages to do a pretty good job.

The application handles AVI, VCD, miniDVD, Nero Digital and some other formats but also multiple audio output configurations such as Dolby Digital AC3 and MPEG-1/-2.

Setting it up is piece of cake because the developers have focused more on the way the application works and less on the methods it could involve the user in the process.

The interface is pretty simple, just like you’d expect to see from a video player, but it looks a little bit outdated. Although it’s an old app, theme support would be great, that’s for sure.

A minor problem we’ve experienced during our testing concerns the way Nero ShowTime gets along with Windows 7 because the operating system switched off the Aero effects every time the app loaded a video file.

Nero ShowTime remains a decent solution, mostly thanks to the fact that it’s being called “Nero”, but otherwise there are so many apps out there doing the same thing but better and faster that you can’t simply decide which one to choose.