Customer Ratings & Reviews

Bought for my pc. Doesn’t play blu Ray. Waste of a lot of money

Doesn't work most of the time, not a good deal at all

Device does not function well always takes long to recognized or load software

Only lasted two weeks. Returned for something different

Had to reinstalled every time I used it once installed it worked ok

Low quality add on with lots of bloatware installed. Avoid.

super long load times. no programs to watch bluray included

Sales person said it would play Blueray discs but it does not

Not an easy install and have a hard time playing DVD’s

Worked great; 6 months in, the charging port broke

Purchased to have a cd for our laptop that does not have one.

Just a mediocre DVD drive. It got me through tax season.

Did not work well on my MAC laptop. Too many issues.

I just bought a 4K laptop and needed an external Blue Ray player to make the most of 4K content. I purchased the movie Captain Phillips for my virgin flight into 4K color, sound and clarity. Thank you LG for making an easy to use, plug and play devise. Just insert the included CD software and you are up and running in no time. After watching my movie, I tried to see if it would burn a CD of music from a playlist on iTunes. Easy Peazy! Once I inserted the blank CD, it even asked if I would like to Burn a CD. Very intuitive and quick. Could't really ask for anything more. It's slim and light. Black Graphite like my new laptop. Good stuff!

If you are a tinkerer and have decided to begin archiving your Multimedia, this drive is it. It gets the job done, it does make noise, but it it is ripping, so, that is expected. I was worried as well, but, after some updates it rips everything! If youre on a budget, start with this and follow any promots to streamline your process.

After I got home and opened the box, I noticed that it wasn't the most sturdily put together unit. The tray is more like a half tray. It's rather flimsy. I've burned three movies so far with no hiccups. For the most part, it's rather noisy. But, I like to hear those noises to assure me that it's working. I haven't burned any blu-ray discs but I'm confident I can. I'm really satisfied with this product although the bundled software needs updating. Fortunately I have two USB 3.1 ports adjacently open on my laptop. It was basically plug and play. Being ultra-slim, it doesn't take up a lot space. For its price, it's rather fast. I would recommend this to anyone.

So this little guy is super light weight and simple to use. You only need to have one USB port for it if you have a modern computer that pushes out more power, otherwise you'll need to plug in the other USB which is part of the "Y" it comes with. I didn't need it so one plug just lays there. I'd probably recommend using Velcro or similar and adhere the drive where you like it since it's so lightweight compared to others. So I just burned a DATA disc to a BD-R and I only had 11gb to use and it took about 13minutes to complete. Why a DATA disc you ask? Well the program by Cyberlink that this comes with (which is bundled with quite a bit if you ask me) does not recognize .MP4 from iPhones / iPad. I'm part of 5 YT channels in which I do quite a bit of video editing using both iDevices I have and the iMovie app. I store our content on an external HDD for backup purposes and hopefully one day (hoping that was today) I could burn the seasons onto a Blu-ray with menu etc. Well, it doesn't import that file type unfortunately for me but with modern Blu-ray players and even DVD, they still support reading burned DATA discs even when contained in folders. It's because the player can decode the file type where the program cannot. I'm testing our the DATA disc I burned just now and it plays fine with a few hiccups like short audio breakage (split second breaks). Which could be the audio format and my Blu-ray doesn't handle it perfectly. IDK. You browse the disc like a folder setup if your wondering. I even selected the option which doesn't finalize the disc so I can add more later. Hopefully this helps you. I also have Windows 10 Lenovo Laptop with 8gb ram, Core i5. The Blu-ray blanks were on clearance at OD for $9.99/15pk 25gb discs. BD-R.

Works fine. In fact, this is the second one I bought from Best Buy (2 homes). I'm a big fan of LG products because of their elegant design and simplicity of operation. I took away one star because of the awkward cable it comes with, which works, but is more complex than would seem necessary.

I use this on my Mac Mini M2 Pro. The software that comes with this product is for PC so if you want to play blu rays on a Mac you will need a third party software. I ended up going with Macgo Blu Ray Player for Mac. I had an Apple Superdrive for DVD, but why not kill 2 birds with 1 stone and get this so you can do Blu Ray as well. By the way if you have an Apple it will still support the DVD side of this drive natively, but you'll still need Blu Ray software to watch movies. I couldn't be happier really.

Nobody builds desktops with disc players anymore. As discs go the way of the floppy, this is small, portable, convenient, and handy for PC or Mac, although for a Mac, you will need to install third party apps to play Blu-ray discs. The included software is for PC only.