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Question: Will this work for windows8 ?
Document: This product will not work unless you have a hdmi input on your monitor. If you do not have a hdmi do not get this product.
This was a gift for my sons laptop. It seems to work just fine. Have not tested it on Blue Ray play back yet.
This DVD player is a pain to download the drivers for. Does not come with a drivers CD. I was never able to get the thing to work.
******** Original Review ********************************To make this work you have to close the drive without a disc, open it, insert the disc and close it again. Then it will work. You have to do this even if you are changing discs.
I'll either cut my losses and pay shipping or enjoy my fancy new coaster.Buy at your own risk. If it doesn't work, you may lose money nonetheless.
The DVD player arrived on time and worked by just plugging it into my laptop with Windows 8. No installation necessary which was great and both regular DVD's and Blue-Ray DVD's work perfectly. Highly recommend it.
This is supposed to be a PLUG and Play device, but it didn't work on THREE different computers, YES I KNOW WHAT I AM DOING. Then doing some research on this I found that it may need a firmware update for it to work correctly. WOW. Don't waste your money on this one.
Sub-graded Blue-Ray player, stay away from it, mine did not worked as promise, downloaded many programs tryin to give it a chance to work, but did not work at all. It comes with one little page of poorly  English instructions and Chinese instructions on the same sheet. I'am an IT expert. Deal is too good to be truth.
Running Windows 8.1 with a powerful media laptop. Even after plugging in both USB's, this drive does not work as a blu-ray reader. It works for CD's and DVD's. My computer would attach the hardware as a drive but could not open the drive if there was a bluray disc. I tried lots of software but it didn't work. Please don't waste your money on this.
The error message is that the content is corrupted ( essentially the same message on all of the software tried on 3 different and pristine discs )It will read the header info from the Blu-Ray discs so it will work with the VUDU software and Ultra-Violet.If it worked for you - awesome. It seems hit or miss at this point based on the reviews and a new computer did not launch me over the wall of trouble others were/are having.
Answer: I bought it specifically for Windows 8 and it works perfectly fine.