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For those still into blu-ray discs I present the legendary LG WH16NS40.
[Prime] LG WH16NS40 5.25" Internal SATA 16x Blu-Ray Disc Rewriter $81.45 Delivered @ Amazon US via AU
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@netsurfer: I've got VLC, but wondering if they'll work in PowerDVD Ultra 23 (it's my "go to" for playing back regular Blu-rays)
Is MakeMKV free? I read that it does have a freeware and shareware version, just wondering if the free version would do the job.
I assume the DLL's would come with MakeMKV or would I have to download a separate installer/package?
I have no idea what keyDB is though, that's beyond my limit of knowledge. Google wasn't much help (some sort of database cache message broker) what?
I'll do some more Googling. Thanks for all the help you've provided netsurfer!
You can watch UHD blu-ray disc with MakeMKV and VLC Player without working SGX. Some OZBers have pointed it out. I have tried it and can confirm it works.
Clone CD and Clone DVD :)
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Have one of these with flashed firmware to rip 4k blu rays!
What's a good cheap enclosure for this is we no longer have drive bays?
Would this be a better deal with the enclosure?
https://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-WH16NS40-Compatible-En…
Could I get a housing & plug it into a Mac & run a generic driver?
Yes you can use this drive in an internal housing with no problems on OSX without installing any specific drivers.
Wish PC companies still manufactured a case or two with 5.25" drive bays for us physical media hoarders: for one thing, these internal BD readers seem to be way cheaper and less finicky than the external ones, and there seems to be plenty floating around on the used market.
Fractal Design Pop. Just ordered one for this reason. Two 5.25” bays.
They do
Pop air
Also Antec P101 silent is a great data hoarder case.
Thermaltake make quite a few with 5.25 bays up top.Old school maybe, i like an external drive bay option and i only buy cases with the 5.25 when im putting together a system.
Remember the good old days I don't need the internet to enjoy the shows.
How is it burning Blu-Ray these days? Can ImgBurn just rip the ISO from any Bluray disc and then burn it onto a blank disc? Looking to backup my bluray collection of course………….
Not for movies, which still has protection in place. Most people probably use makeMKV. It has quite a few options. For example, if you don't care about the extra features, you could just backup the movie itself.
Noice. MakeMKV can bypass the protection on movies?
@netsurfer: Cheers - kinda like clonedvd when I used it back in the day.
Nah I don’t burn dvds anymore.. and never did for blurays. Those days a long gone for me and I assume for most others too.
@Mingles: Sorry about the misinformation. As @robo11 pointed out, you can use VLC + makeMKV combined to playback UHD blu-ray discs with this drive. There are youTube videos and various pages showing how to do it. Basically:
- Install VLC
- Install makeMKV
- Configure makeMKV to integration with VLC
- Down the key file
- Download the needed DLLs
- (Optional) Download Java JRE
- Get everything installed in the right directories
- Run VLC and use open Blu-ray disc option
I just tried it and it works with my UHD blu-ray disc (I tested Avengers: End Games). It was a quick test and it just plays the movie, rather than come up with the menu.
@netsurfer: you can also download keyfiles for VLC to allow encrypted media to playback on PC. Which in turn allows you to rip them via MakeMKV or HandBrake.
This brings back memories of the Release scene…DoD for the win..
Yup, except that one's $127AUD delivered…!
Still all good with my Ricoh 4x burner that I've firmware hacked to make OVERBURN my 99 minute CD-Rs at 6x speed with Nero Burning Rom.
Still have 150 blank blurays in the house somewhere might get this to start burning again.
I'm thinking ppl may want this for old storage. I don't it will do 4K movies…
problem is BD-R DL and BD-R XL blanks are still quite expensive ($ per GB) compared to HDD..
It is cheaper to buy the HDD (which is re writeable) to backup your data than to buy blanks BD-R DL and BD-R XL blanks (which can only be written/backup once)
CloneDVD and AnyDVD ftw
I won't be upgrading my 14-year-old DVD-RW drive until these drop to sub-$25 which is what I paid for my drive.
This particular drive will not drop to that price while 4k discs are still being released
And once physical media stops being released these won’t drop in price either.
Does anyone have recs for an external enclosure that would work with this?
New/current computer cases no longer have 5.25 drive bays and when I upgraded I lost all my bays.
I've always had great success with OWC quality products… so the "OWC Mercury Pro" would be a good one.
Where should I put it in my fishtank-style PC case? There is no slot for a DVD driver anymore. Maybe I should drill a hole in the front.
I wish there were adapters to convert these into SFF media players for TV.
Will this let me make 4k bluray 1:1 copies of movies 'I own'?
Yes, but you need BD-R DL or BD-R XL (the latter is needed for UHD blu-ray). However, the disc you backup will have copy protection removed.
problem is BD-R DL and BD-R XL blanks still is quite expensive and never dropped to the cheap as chip prices of blank DVD-R disks..
So it is still cheaper to backup movies and data ($ per GB) to buy HDD (which are rewriteable) than these BD-R DL and BD-R XL (which only allow one write/burn).
it is quite sad actually that BD-R DL and BD-R XL never drop to like 10/20 cents per disks (even after bluray players got released since 2006)..
I would love to back my data to BD-R DL and BD-R XL but it is just cheaper to buy hdd..
Also the bluray movies are slowly not gonna be released… due to streaming popularity
so eventually there probably won't even be that source anymore..The other issue with bluray movies is you need to buy it or rent or borrowed it from somewhere..
then you also need to spend alot of time to rip these 30 to 40GB of data.. then burn it back to an expensive BD-R DL or BD-R XL..
This is a lot of work..It is easier to stream the movies or download the movies nowadays..
Yea but they don't stream 100GB 4K Bluray's. Only way to get that quality is from physical media.
@Dollar Dreamer: For average consumer 4K 10bit H265 is good enough…
The only movies that people generally want to see best quality in are like the super heroes or spectacle event movies..
And even those super heroes movies are getting boring and predictable..The other issues I mention which would be good if you can address is
1) The cost of BD-R XL 100GB is quite expensive (5 disks cost starting at $106 and higher
e.g. https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=0c6ef13e064fd2d5&sxsrf…
2) Where are you going to get these bluray disk?
buy them? which is another cost
rent? no more video stores3) time it takes to rip 100GB is quite time consuming..
and then need to store the rip on the hdd
then burn it on the expensive BDR-XL blank and hope there is no coaster issue..
then delete the rip on hddthen repeat process again for next movie
4) After doing all that,
how likely you gonna watch it again?Also is the BD-R XL disk exact copy of the original ( ie contains menus and extras exactly like original)?
I just quickly tested my 20yr old Sony 2x CD-R burner in SCSI interface with a PCI SCSI adapter. It still works reading its very first Kodak gold disc. Which is quite funny is like eating your own poop. Anyway, I have to say these optical drives will last quite a while if you have spare drive tray eject belts(which are plenty on AliExp).
Plain CD reader drives with no write function often die very quickly often due to overheating motor driver ICs.
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@netsurfer: Thanks, I’ll give that a shot. I bought an external Pioneer 4K slot load drive when I got a new PC with 4K monitor and I was bummed about not being able to playback UHD’s.
Hopefully this works!