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Why read & burn ancient plastic discs with a Red Laser when you can use a Blue one!

Slimline Blu-ray writer with 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray playback*
USB 3.2 GEN 1 with USB-CTM connection
6x maximum write / 4 x maximum read speeds for BD-R/BD-R DL
Compact and lightweight, ideally suited for use with a notebook or ultrabook
Power provided by the USB port - no need to carry a bulky power adapter
Includes award-winning BD/DVD/CD burning software
Stores up to 100GB on a BDXL Disc / 8.5GB on a Double Layer DVD / 4.7GB on a standard DVD
Fully compliant with MDISC archiving technology

DVD-R BD-R BD-XL
Capacity Up to 9.4 GB Up to 50 GB Up to 100 GB
(Dual Layer) (Dual Layer) (Quad Layer)
Video Capacity Standard Definition High Definition Ultra High Definition
(SD video) (HD video) (UHD video)
Usage General data storage HD video recording, Large data storage,
and video recording data backup 4K video storage
Player Compatible with all Requires a Blu-ray Requires a Blu-ray
DVD players and player with BD-R player with BD-XL
DVD-RW drives support support
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  • cloudie9 on 02/08/2023 - 22:17

    I am guessing if you want to play blu-ray movies, you need a software such as Cyberlink Power DVD?

    • easternculture on 02/08/2023 - 22:18

      Should work with native windows app

    • psyphon11 on 02/08/2023 - 22:21
      +4

      you can use VLC and play them for free

      • cloudie9 on 02/08/2023 - 22:24
        +1

        I tried before on my internal LG Blu-ray (bought from MSY eons ago) and just wouldn't play at all.

        • garetz on 02/08/2023 - 22:25

          It depends on the blu ray and what copy protections it has.

    • Fiximol on 02/08/2023 - 22:25
      +3

      I think normal BD will play with powerDVD. I have never had much luck playing BD with native windows app.

      Having read up on it, however, 4K playback on PC seems to require a bunch of things.

      An Intel 7th gen or later CPU (will not work with AMD), powerDVD, and monitor (with HDCP 2.2) must be connected to onboard graphics via HDMI. Not sure how this works for laptops.

      Seems too much trouble.

      • bogan on 02/08/2023 - 22:43
        +6

        An Intel 7th gen or later CPU

        Actually 7th gen to 10th gen. The SGX extension was removed from 11th gen CPU's so no more BD playback on PC.

        • superroach on 02/08/2023 - 23:14
          +1

          wow so niche

        • Graffin on 03/08/2023 - 00:32
          +3

          That’s somewhat true. Without SGX, you cannot play 4K Blu-rays no matter what you try, but normal Blu-ray Discs will work on PowerDVD.

          There’s actually a great freeware player called Leawo Blu-ray Player - downloadable from https://www.leawo.org/ if you wanna try that!

          • Corgsta on 03/08/2023 - 08:30

            @Graffin:

            Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX)1 2 offers hardware-based memory encryption that isolates specific application code and data in memory. Intel® SGX allows user-level code to allocate private regions of memory, called enclaves, which are designed to be protected from processes running at higher privilege levels.

            Playing a Bluray requires this?? How dumb. I assume it’s to do with the copy protection/encryption stuff?

            So it’s not about the video codec (I was gonna say, it could be software decoded if no hardware acceleration)?

            Just rip Blurays in Linux using mpv or ffmpeg then play freely.

          • KazaHesto on 03/08/2023 - 10:26
            +1

            @Graffin: iirc, Leawo is just repackaging MakeMKV. So if you don't mind a slightly more complicated setup process you could directly use MakeMKV through VLC and also get the ability to rip discs, though the license periodically expires unless you pay for it. I think 4k blurays are only rippable if you get a bluray drive with unlockable firmware, don't remember the details but it's in the forum.

            With how finicky playing blurays are on a computer, it probably makes sense to rip them all anyway and only deal with DRM nonsense once.

      • Fuzor on 02/08/2023 - 22:58

        Yeah 7th gen had a native hardware HEVC decoder, but i had thought it would work with dedicated GPU too as the CPU helps the decoding. Also didnt know about this SGX extension though

    • formulated on 03/08/2023 - 03:44
      +4

      Cyberlink Power DVD.. now that’s a name I've not heard in a long time.

  • Helmutson on 02/08/2023 - 22:17

    Upvote just for the one liner :)

  • twig on 02/08/2023 - 22:17
    +1

    Oh no, is this the next "ring sizer" thing?

  • meeowth on 02/08/2023 - 22:22

    Wow that's an impressive drop today in the camels chart.

    Edit: Hey! It won't deliver to my address!

  • DGrayson82 on 02/08/2023 - 22:32
    +3

    Seems to be capable of ripping 4K disks according to the makemkv forums

  • amoretpax199 on 02/08/2023 - 22:32

    Should I cancel the ORIGBELIE order and get this one instead?

    • cloudie9 on 02/08/2023 - 22:34
      +1

      If you want blu-ray capability, though I m not sure if they can play blu-ray movie, then I'd say yes…

  • BaarOzGain on 02/08/2023 - 22:37
    +1

    Awesome, had this in my watchlist

  • starbearer on 02/08/2023 - 22:49

    Offtopic, but has anyone done an analysis of blu ray as a data backup option compared with DVD's or Hard Drives for data that's just accessed occassionally (i.e. less than once a year)

    • DeepDreamer on 02/08/2023 - 23:06
      +2

      Just looked at prices. 5pk of 100GB is around $100, so each TB of long term storage is $200. 4TB using a hard drive is about $85. 4TB using BluRay would be $800.

      Hmmm

      • bazingaa on 03/08/2023 - 08:30
        +3

        5 * 100 GB Verbatim discs are just $35 from Amazon JP. I recently got 10 * 50 GB discs for $27 , which is bit cheaper for same capacity

        Verbatim VBR520YP5V2 Single Recording Blu-ray Disc, BD-R, XL, 100 GB, 5 Pieces, White Printable, Single-Sided, 3 Layers, 2-4x Speed https://amzn.asia/d/craVqvM

        • lonewolf on 03/08/2023 - 08:52
          +1

          Damn looks like bdr prices have gone up. I used to buy them years back for in 25 packs I think for much better prices. Thought it would have gone down alot

          • bazingaa on 03/08/2023 - 09:14
            +1

            @lonewolf: 25 GB are much cheaper, 50 GB & 100 GB ones have better prices now than those days.

            • lonewolf on 03/08/2023 - 10:54

              @bazingaa: I think you misunderstand, 25 Packs of 50Gb. I never bothered with 25Gb, too small for my backups. At that time 100Gb just came out when i stopped using my Blu-ray writers as backup machines. Still have them and quite a lot of 50gb blank discs. One day i will use them again lol

              • bazingaa on 03/08/2023 - 11:35

                @lonewolf: ah! :D I also got a lot of blanks, I was planning to backup photos etc but never finished.

        • RefusdClassification on 03/08/2023 - 13:58
          +1

          Discussions about backing up data on optical media are rare now, but enjoyable. I switched to HDDs exclusively about 5 years ago. Initially I started buring CDs using the good Kodak Gold media, then moved on to DVDs (mainly Verbatim media), and finally 25 GB Blurays imported from Japan. Good quality media can last for at least 10 years, but lifetime varies. Optical media begins degenerating from outer rings inward; very upsetting when this happens to data that cannot be retrieved from the internet. Streaming is all the rage now, but websites aren't eternal. Most sites don't have mirrors (like they used to 25 years ago when there were FTP sites), so if they vanish, or if they start charging a lot for access, you lose access to the files/images/music etc. The Wayback Machine is a fantastic idea but unfortunately it lacks a lot of content.

          • bazingaa on 04/08/2023 - 08:43

            @RefusdClassification:

            Most sites don't have mirrors (like they used to 25 years ago when there were FTP sites),

            I remember that download accelerators (ex: DAP back then) searched and used multiple mirrors for downloading, nothing much mattered with dialup though

        • Nom on 03/08/2023 - 22:41

          Hard Drives are about $25 per TB and massively faster than using 10 separate Blu-ray discs just to hold a single TB.

          Backing up to optical media is a terrible idea.

          • bazingaa on 04/08/2023 - 08:41

            @Nom: but when it fails, all data gone, not like failing single disc. Anyway I keep valuable data (photos etc) on multiple HDD, some on Optical and reduced size on GDrive. Last HDD I bought was $20/TB (X16 16TB).

            • Nom on 04/08/2023 - 13:50

              @bazingaa:

              but when it fails, all data gone,

              You have more than one backup for precisely this scenario. Optical discs, and any other backup media you can think of, are subject to the exact same problem.

              not like failing single disc.

              It's exactly the same - when one single disc fails, all the data on it is gone.

    • Chrool on 02/08/2023 - 23:47
      +2

      Depends what kind of resilience you want. For something important like family photos its best to have a few mediums

    • mousie on 03/08/2023 - 15:37

      Cold storage is more reliable, not cost wise but reliability.

      Just be aware that discs of poor quality can develop mould after several years.

  • burns13 on 02/08/2023 - 22:50

    100gb data storage?! What will they think of next??

  • mikokik5 on 02/08/2023 - 23:06
    +1

    This works with makemkv… awesome price..

  • star chasm on 02/08/2023 - 23:07
    +8

    It's been this price for about a week now. I'd had it in my cart for ages so noticed the price and ordered it immediately. It arrived a few days ago. A couple of things worth noting:

    • 4K blu-ray playback won't work if you have a relatively recent PC. Only Intel 7th-10th gen processors supported SGX which is required to play them and no AMD CPUs ever supported that. But ripping 4K blu-rays with MakeMKV DOES work. Takes a while, though! (If MakeMKV throws up an error on the first attempt, literally just unplug the drive and plug it back again and you won't have an issue again)

    • For software, the drive only comes with Nero 2016 (!) for disc burning. PowerDVD is NOT included. I downloaded the 30-day PowerDVD trial to test out the drive and it plays standard blu-rays and DVDs just fine, but I'm not sure what I'll do when it expires. $100 is too rich for my blood. Supposedly there's a method to make blu-ray playback work in VLC, but I couldn't get it to work on my laptop.

    If anyone has any suggestions for free or cheap blu-ray playback options, let me know. I tried Leawo but it didn't seem to work.

    • Graffin on 03/08/2023 - 00:36
      +1

      Weird. I’ve got a a Pioneer internal drive (fairly ancient) and the latest model Pioneer 4K external drive and both play movies with Leawo. I’d say it works better than Cyberlink’s PowerDVD Ultra that came with the 4K drive.

  • paulaus on 02/08/2023 - 23:12
    +1

    Thanks i have about 200 blank bluray disks i bought many years ago so now i can burn movies on my laptop.

    • Jdrizzle on 02/08/2023 - 23:34
      +1

      Haha, I stocked up too some years back when Officeworks and DSE had a clearance but have more like 30 left. Have an internal br writer, but my desktop is tucked away so tempted to get this one… Plus 4k (maybe lol)

      Edit welp maybe not it's now $150ish lol

  • RickoWest on 02/08/2023 - 23:34

    Damn, back up to $156 now

  • reactor-au on 02/08/2023 - 23:34

    I still have a LG internal blu-ray writer, haven't installed it in recently builds (>2017); used to use it to dump rented blu-ray to the home nas Kodi setup. Ah how times have changed! I got about 400 original discs now instead.

  • StiSupafly on 02/08/2023 - 23:34

    Showing as $156.36 now :(

  • Manny Calavera on 03/08/2023 - 09:22

    I remember speccing a blu-ray reader for $700 in my dell from 2010 =\

    Used it maybe twice because the experience was kinda garbage.

  • dj_skitzo on 03/08/2023 - 12:51

    stumbled across this price last week randomly while looking to buy one, ended up price matching at officeworks and got it for $94, score!

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