Customer Ratings & Reviews

Does what i need it to. Ive bought LG drives before, and have always been satisfied with their performance. I just wish you could get a discount on good media burning programs instead of the bloatware that it comes with.

Easy to setup, can with the appropriate software to play bluerays on my iMac.

Excellent product, I do not think DVDs or CDs will ever go away so why not be able to make your own?

I get no kick backs so I will tell it the way it is. This unit works for apple although it came with no apple apps. for support of hardware and for the price it should have. Two usb plugs no clear information on when to use both or when it is needed. Not much info in the manual information. It is not quiet, one button for opening unit tray, manual push closing. Button releases tray but tray does not open all the way. The disk snaps into place on the spindle ring, this kind of pressure on a flimsy delicate tray may kill the tray travel rail in the future. This unit is light, delicate and slick which may or may not be a plus in the future. Overall for the 89.00 price tag you expect more quality. In short this unit works does but does it warrant the price tag? I personally do not feel this units hardware screams quality. I can not say it does not work therefore I can tell people so far it works as stated. I have not burned dvds as of yet so the burning of disks is another review.

It’s a great writer at a great price. I use it to archive Home movies Pictures and computer projects. I do you tube video shows and like to save copies of my shows.

For those with a newer computer that do not have a dvd drive in them, this is the way to go. The price is a little much and when you add the $9.99 Geek Squad it's kind of pointless, HOWEVER, if you can find this little beauty on sale or do a price match it is well worth it!

My old bluray burner had seen better days and was giving me a lot of disc errors. This one is a good price and does exactly what it's supposed to. I do a lot of 100GB XL disc burning for archival purposes, and this does them in over 2x the speed of my old burner.

When my old external optical drive died, I looked online at Best Buy to make sure they had a decent selection and check reviews. I went to my local store and picked up this one, which plays CD's, DVD's and Blu-ray discs. Works like a charm.

We are slowly reaching the age where physical media will be less common. We may be in the last generation that can purchase BD, DVD reader/rewriter drives. So I am grateful that devices like this are still on sale. I can watch movies on my laptop that lack an optical drive, back up different types of files. Who knows if external drives will still be available for purchase in 2 or 3 years from now? I purchased this drive 3 years ago and it is working really well. Very reliable device.

It is not stated on the box that the device requires two usb ports to function. Installed and had to do a bunch of updates before I could use it. After all that was done, it was easy to use.

I use this with my HP Envy 2 in 1 laptop which doesn't have an optical drive. It is very easy to use by just plugging it into the USB port and inserting a disc. No problems and I got it for $71.99 with my rewards discount. Would buy again if I purchase another laptop

Exactly what he wanted for Christmas, shipped quickly, arrived in perfect condition.

Wow, talk about identifying a Win10 issue too late! This external drive will play blu-ray movies on my laptop in Win7, but not after upgrading to Win10. Tried EVERYTHING! Tried all the available Win10 AMD 6620G drivers to no avail. Tried all the PowerDVD potential fixes to no avail. Spent hours and hours trying. The Win10 drivers work for my most demanding games, but not this blu-ray drive when trying to play blu-ray movies. Not sure of other functions. PowerDVD says my video card not sufficient, but same card works fine with the same PowerDVD software to play blu-ray movies in Win7. Plays blu-ray movies on my other very wimpy laptop with Win10 and its wimpy graphics card (it won't even come close to handling the same video as my HP DV6 Entertainment Laptop). Definitely an AMD / Win10 video driver issue. Thank goodness I kept my old hard drive with my Win7. Will be switching back to Win7. Maybe one day AMD & Win10 will work it out eventually, but not hopeful.

Four years of use, and this player/writer is going strong just like it did fresh out of the box!

Works great once you figure out the cybertech software. It said my gtx 1080 ti with updated drivers was a outdated videocard, not compatable. I just got black screen when I tried to play a dvd or a bluray disc. Im using Windows 10. After 2 days of trying to make it work, I found a quick fix. You open up the cyberlink power 12 media center, into the play movie app, go to the video enhancement check box uncheck the box, then it will play both both dvds and bluray discs. It basically disables the videocard hardware acceleration and uses the cpu intergrated video acceleration. I have a intel i7 7700 cpu. Now it works, its plays all discs smoothly and clearly.

Exactly what I wanted and needed. Blu-Ray DVD player/writer

I’ve used this machine several times and it works pretty well so far. Note for Mac users: you will have to find software to make it work with your computer.

Performs even better than expected. Speeds are very good and battery drain is minimal.

The blu-ray player works fantasticly. I've yet to try the other features so can't say how good those are just yet.

Worked great..compact in size so I can take it with me when traveling