Customer Ratings & Reviews

I regularly format shift my content from physical Blurays that I purchase to DRM-Free digital to my own personal Plex server. I have an old chonky, but reliable 4K Bluray drive in a Sata enclosure that I keep in a drawer. It does a perfectly fine job, it's just a pain to find room on my desk and connect. Enter this slim little BluRay drive; I can keep it hooked up and it doesn't take up much room. I used clear 3M VHB to adhere it to the underside of my glass monitor stand, so it takes up no room at all! When you first get it, you'll have to upgrade the firmware, as out-of-the-box, all functions are not supported (including 4k Bluray reading). Once that's done, you'll need to use the two-plugged USB-to-MicroUSB, connected with both plugs, as the power draw exceeds USB 2.0.. Disappointing that in 2023, devices are still sold with MicroUSB, but I digress. Most disks read just fine with the software I use, and it's quiet and adequately fast (about 1 hour to extract a full BluRay movie, DVDs take like 15 minutes). All in all, it meets my needs and doesn't take up a lot of space doing it... now to tackle this pile of disks.

I need a disc drive for my gaming pc, This is perfect for its compact size. Works like a dream for my needs.

Incredibly fast with a small footprint. Makes authoring DVDs a breeze. Would definitely buy again.

This LG burner/player is a workhorse and a great addition to my wife's desktop. With the decline of internal burners, my wife wanted an external solution to help her digitize our CD collection, capture pictures from old DVDs and burn new picture DVDs. Setup was very easy and only requires two USB ports for the cable provided. Once the software provided was loaded using the player, ripping and burning was a breeze. If you are searching for a great external burner/player at a great price, then I certainly recommend this LG and it is currently on sale for $79.99.

This is a good external blue ray drive. It works great with my desktop and laptop PC. One thing to beware of is the data/power cable two USB 2.o type A connectors. They are close together and you will need the USB ports on your computer to be close. This will not be a problem for most desktop computers, but laptops it may be a concern. I attached a picture of the cable. The drive played my blue ray DVD without a problem. I haven't tried burning a Blu ray DVD. The included software will do the basic stuff, you want something better for more advanced things.

Not a common piece of tech but insanely cool applications available

Love this diskdrive, able to watch amazing movies and with a little work you can even rip your collection!

I like the fact that it is an external drive that operates through the USB port, because I have a DT that has only one slot for DVD drive (with another DVD). If some standard DVD dual layer media is written (video) in a BD writer, it won't play in a BD player, but will play in a standard DVD player. I don't know why, it's just the way it is. Out of about 15 BD discs written so far, only one has failed, which was likely due to a bad sector on trk 0 of the disc. I expect to enjoy the use of this drive for many years. Facts at hand: Rated for USB 2.0, not 3.0. Must use 2 USB slots (requires more power than a single slot rating), and includes the cable for it. Uses USB type C connector at the other end, which seems a bit flimsy. Cable is only 22" long (excluding connectors). Comes with a software disc, but not needed, as the unit is plug & play. The software is essentially a demo version of Cyberlink.

I'm so fed up with the New Laptops and PC's not having a disc drive . It hurts me to know that I'm all about tech , yet most of the tech I grew up with is obsolete . Still having this handy portable Blu-ray player does bring back old and cherished memories .

I bought this because I needed to backup some Blu-Ray discs and this does that perfectly. It is also useful to go with my laptop so I can take some Blu-Ray movies with me when I go on a trip.

Works great. Found a work around the two USB ports. All you need is a USB C to USB A adaptor and a USB C cable. The USB C carries enough power to run the Blu ray drive. But make sure you plug the cable into a USB 3.0 or higher port. Hope this make it easier for those who only have one USB 3.0 or higher port.

I will warn you now if you plan on doing hardcore media archiving with this save yourself the headache and the $100 and buy anything from pioneer other than this Blu-ray drive if you're like me you're going to be on Reddit by the end of the month figuring out why zero discs will be recognized by this drive the second that you update any of the aacs libraries or if you flash the firmware on this you have basically just absolutely killed your drive (and no I was not trying to do with the UHD flashing) I really loved how this drive worked it was better than anything I bought for the first 3 weeks of owning it and it is completely dead in the water now and I'm beyond warranty and a returnable date so I am no longer going to purchase anything made by LG this was my last attempt to give them my money and everything I've bought from them has fallen apart ridiculously fast... Unbelievably great DVD player ... The moment you try to get this to play all of your Blu-ray collection and start figuring out it's limitations there's a 95% chance you're going to break your drive. And if anybody's made it to this far in the review look up Billy on Reddit and he will give you preflashed uhd drives from pioneer that will last you the rest of your life.

Works OK. I haven't tried all the functions. I've tried Music CDs, regular DVDs, and DVD-RAMs. They all worked fine. I also tried a Blu-Ray and could NOT get it to read the Blu-Ray. Perhaps this is user error, I don't know.

I had purchased a similar item on line, which would not play newer Blu Ray discs so I went to Best Buy, where the Geek Squad tested this one first, everything working just fine. My reason for only 4 stars instead of 5 is that it needs two USB ports to work properly.

Works great as a external drive for a laptop. Included software needs to be upgraded to allow fully potential of the drive to be used. It does require TWO USB connections via the provided cord due to power demands during burn.

Great writer, never fails and I prefer this over my PCs internal drives. I burn DVDs and blue rays consistently for work.

It works great! The best part is that I can use it between both my desktop and my laptop! (For whatever reason my desktop does not have space for an internal disc drive)

This is my second LG - 8x External USB 2.0 Blu-ray Disc Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Disc Rewriter - Black. The first one is too old for a firmware update. *Be sure to keep the OEM software as it is impossible to replace. Not sure if I can use this on Windows 11 as it does not allow for OEM soft ware.

Good little player, does well with all formats. I couldn’t get the software that came with it to actually play anything. It would start up and then freeze. But after several updates and patches I finally got it. It will work using a single usb c lightening port but you’ll need an adapter. Otherwise it takes two regular usb slots to power it.

So far so good. It works as intended and it was a better deal than the original Apple drive which can not read/write Blu-ray Discs.