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Question: How good is it? I have no experience but i am looking for the best / and is 16x the fastest or 48x?
Document: Excellent drive, Fastest burner I have ever owned. Well worth the few extra bucks I spent over standard DVD Burner. M-Disc Technology is AWESOME !! !
I gave this product a five star rating because it reads and writes discs efficiently and effectively. I have encounter no issues with the product thus far, and do not predict there ever will be any. This buying experience was worth the cost; thank you ITparts.
I am watching Blu-ray on my computer as we speak. I am using Nero Blu-ray player. It comes with Nero 2014 Platinum. There might be and I am sure there are, cheaper 3rd party Blu-ray players. Look around and find what is best for you. Ask questions to make sure it is compatible with your devices. By the way, Blu-ray on my computer, NICE.
work great lg makes a good blu-ray burner.
What a deal for a blu-ray burner! Many other stores sell it for as much as double the amazon price! The drive is also a good performer and you won't be disappointed.
Passkey for Blu-ray removes AACS and BD+ copy protections, Region Code, BD-Live and UOPs. It thusly allows you to play disks directly with PotPlayer (or just use Windows Explorer to copy the M2TS movie file off the drive), but the software is a tad inconsistent and its setup process every time you insert a movie disk can take some time (which is a good part of the time required to just rip the movie with MakeMKV).
While there are no truly satisfactory commercial PC players, free options are even worse and require you to somehow get the disk playlist and stream started. You can accomplish this with the manual VLC Blu-ray playback add-on pack or with a onetime setup for the fat XBMC media center, but you'll still need MakeMKV (version 13.0 just recently became available). The best option IMHO is the top rated PotPlayer (the latest beta became available just this week) with some sort of additional software.
Now I have two in my machine. Can play my music for hours on a Blu-ray disk and never have to change it.
I use this drive for data backup, not video, on a 7-year-old home-built Vista Ultimate system.
I copy rips to a 3TB USB drive and play with a KDLinks HD700 or play directly on the PC using PotPlayer.
Answer: In my experience, the drive has been great - I've been using it to burn DVDs/BD-Rs & it can be used for 3D playback so long as you have software that supports it.  Is this the best drive on the market? No - some pricier drives have extra features, such as HD upscaling for DVDs (which I think is useless, btw).  Is it the best drive under $100? Yeah, in my opinion, it is.In regards to write speed, it depends on the type of media: 16X is the fastest write speed for BD-R, 24X for DVD-R (but that speed is only available in DVD drives - the fastest DVD-R speed available on a BD drive is 16X), & 48X for CD-R.  The -DL, -RW, & -RAM variants always have lower speeds.  However, as the other answer mentions, the fastest BD-R discs currently available have a maximum write speed of 6X.  In terms of read speed: the BD-R read speed may not be the best (12X), but it's plenty.  It's faster than needed for BluRay playback & fine for the BD rips that I've done.