Jacob Perialas
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2024
Rips blue rays easily. Have not had any issues after 6 months of use. Got my entire Blu ray collection into digital.
Max Young
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2024
This drive is on the list, and it works great! Recognizes UHD as well with a little tweaking.
Kikagaro
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2024
Came Dead on Arrival, tried serveral computers, cables, OSs. nothing worked. Got passed around a few times trying to get a return and was unable to make it to the post office, Now out $80 for a product I never even got to use.
Gerardo
Reviewed in Mexico on April 6, 2024
El producto es refurbish y trae una etiqueta que dice que no tiene garantía. Además, la caja al parecer había sido abierta previamente (al parecer era un producto que habían devuelto). En la publicación el vendedor en ningún momento aclaraba eso.En cuanto al producto, parece funcionar correctamente. He reproducido 3 películas de bluray y funciona más o menos como debería.Una última cuestión, la seguridad anticopia de los blu-rays son excesivas y se vuelven una molestia Compré este dispositivo, no para almacenar, sino para reproducir desde la computadora a la televisión. Mi computadora tiene dos tarjetas de video, la integrada al procesador y la dedicada, por lo que el monitor lo conecto a la gpu integrada, y la TV la conecto a la gpu dedicada. El software que incluye el reproductor (powerDVD), no permite la reproducción en pantallas duplicadas, ni tampoco en la GPU integrada (el monitor), al menos que desactive por completo la otra GPU en administración del sistema. Esta situación, al parecer, es la misma con otros softwares del mercado. VLC, no es una opción del todo, porque nativamente no tiene soporte para blu-ray. Hay que bajar a cada momento los repositorios de las keys de los blu-rays que van saliendo al mercado, de una base de datos más o menos clandestina, para que pueda reproducir sólo algunos blu-ray (por ejemplo, los distribuidos por FOX hay que hacer otras configuraciones para romper los candados de los blu-ray). Todo eso es engorroso, y además raya en lo ilegal (aunque no debería porque tengo las películas originales).En cuanto al sonido, tenía conectada la computadora y la tv por medio de cable óptico a un pequeño dac, y de ahí la señal de los dos dispositivos salía a un sistema de bocinas 5.1 a partir de cables RCA. El quemador tuvo problemas al decodificar el sonido, y salía corrupto, distorsionado. Tuve que prescindir del dac y conectar la PC directamente a las bocinas con los cables RCA. Aclaro, todo esto no es cosa del quemador en sí, sino de las medidas antipiratería que traen los blu-ray.Digo esto para que, quien quiera comprar un dispositivo de éstos para reproducir películas desde una laptop o una PC, y busque la experiencia de un hometheater, considere antes de adquirirlo si le conviene mejor un reproductor casero. En mi caso tengo los dos, pero me interesaba tener un reproductor que pudiese tener de remplazo, en caso que el otro falle, y como plus poder ver películas en la computadora (por eso he decidido quedármelo y no devolverlo).
Ryan
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2023
I got this blue-ray drive for ripping PS3 Games for emulation, and movies for streaming with Plex for a NAS, or keep backups of them. Great drive.
Mike F
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2023
Originally, I was upset that it I received the WP50NB40 (instead of the BP50NB40), but plugged it in and it still works for ripping games with RCPS3 for PS3 emulation! Keep in mind that it's a dedicated device and you should attempt to plug it into a direct USB port (and not an unpowered hub). I had issues with my unpowered hub (where the Blu-Ray player was recognized, but couldn't read the disc in Windows 10), but they were fixed when I put it into a dedicated USB port!
rodrigo
Reviewed in Mexico on July 26, 2022
Excelente quemador, si son reconstruidos pero no e tenido fallas, llevo alrededor de 400 bluray grabados y no e tenido problema
Geoff
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2022
I bought this drive specifically for the purpose of digitizing my DVD and Blu-Ray collection. Out of the box, it ran flawlessly. I plugged in the provided micro USB connector-to-dual USB A cable, my mid-2012 Macbook Pro recognized it, threw in a DVD and was able to convert it. No issues whatsoever. Great, I'll come back to it tomorrow to start chipping away at the rest of my collection. Plug it in as I did before, I hear the drive starting to initialized, but nothing comes up. After experimenting with how it was connected, checking that my USB ports weren't failing, using different power sources, I just couldn't get the drive to show up at all. Plug it into my Windows machine. I can see it in the hardware profiles, but it doesn't come up as accessible to me. Online forums didn't help at all. I was nearly ready to return it when I grabbed a spare micro-USB to USB-A cable laying around, single-ended. Plugged it in. Came up immediately. Tried on both Mac and Windows. Haven't had an issue since. I waited a few months to post this review because I wasn't fully confident in this drive's ability to be recognized consistently. Since then, I've digitized somewhere around 100 DVDs/Blu-Rays and it doesn't show signs of slowing down. Highly recommended. I just hope my experience saves someone some grief if they find that their drive isn't being recognized by their computer, hence the minus one star.
RODOLFO E.
Reviewed in Mexico on February 23, 2022
Buen producto, y muy bien empacado, hasta el momento llevo grabado tres bd y sin problemas, lo único que veo es que es un poco lento al leer, no se si sea normal por ser blu ray, y es un poco ruidoso, pero por el precio no me puedo quejar.
JAVIER HERNANDEZ
Reviewed in Mexico on December 17, 2022
Buen producto
Dean
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2022
Chose a "good as new" listing from the vendor list, got a unused refurbished unit in OEM packaging including the protective plastic stick-ons. Did not bother with the included software disk. Plunged it into a USB-3 slot to give it enough power, on Win11. Tested a DVD and Blu-Ray using VLC, worked. Have not tried writing with it. I really got it to read PS3 disks for RPCS3, and it worked very well for the 1 I've done so far.I'll update if problems appear in the near term.
luis vazquez
Reviewed in Mexico on January 18, 2022
Compré 2 y uno llegó reacondicionado a pesar que no dice que es un producto reacondicionado. Solo he usado uno y todo exelente.
Aurora
Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2020
I bought this with the specific intent of ripping files from old PlayStation 3 discs, as this is one of the few external blu ray drives capable of doing that. As for anything a normie would use this for, I have no idea. But if you’re using RPCS3 and wish to copy your own games over, this will do the job.