LG WH16NS60 16x Internal Blu-ray BDXL M-Disc Drive (with Ultra HD 4K Playback) Bundle with 100GB Verbatim M-Disc BDXL,Cyberlink and Cable

I bought this drive so that I could play and/or rip 4K Blu-ray. It turned out something about my computer didn't make the Blu-ray player software that it came with happy, so I couldn't play some of those movies. But I was able to flash different firmware onto the drive which allowed me to rip them and play them on my computer without the copy protection.

I used UHD Drive tool from dvdfab.cn to take the firmware down to 1.00. I am now able to rip 4K disk with MAKEMKV and use them on my plex/emby server. Although I had to put the drive in and older computer with IDE SATA configuration to re-firmware the drive. Then put it in my new computer and it works great Rip a 4K disk in about 45 min.

I have an ASUS Rampage V motherboard with a 7-6800K processor. I am using Windows 10 which is updated. I installed the LG WH16NS60 drive and it does not work on my computer. I search the internet and found that this is a common problem. There are about 7 fixes and I faithfully followed all the recommendations. The recommendation ranges from removing the drive on the device manager to changes in the registry. The last suggestion was changing the driver cable and using a different SATA port. Unfortunately, I still have a drive that is not recognized on my Cyberlink Media Suite 16 software. After calling LG their solution was to send the drive back. I am in the process of sending the drive back to Amazon.

Rolled back the firmware and works great for 4k

I put it in an external enclosure and plugged it in installed the included software and it works fine.

FULLY processing UHD movie discs Mine arrived Sunday, I gave it a little love and attention Processed a few movies Ordered a second one..

Very noisy..

This drive, based on hardware alone, is amazing! It can read CD’s DVD’s and BluRay discs. It can write to the above formats as well! Based on licensing restrictions, the 4K UHD playback performance in Windows 10 may be hard to configure. There are multiple technical approaches, but it boils down to 2: 1) use Cyber Link or 2) go with open source solutions like MakeMKV combined with VLC which use ffmpeg and various libraries to achieve playback. You may need to flash the firmware for use with open source apps. Recommended hardware is a 3.6-4.0Ghz base clock on a dual or quad core Intel CPU. If it has Intel graphics, that will be easier with less software changes needed. RAM use is minimal when you add a discrete graphics card with at least 2-4 GB of onboard memory. If tweaking software isn’t your thing, then make sure your CPU has SGX extensions enabled in firmware/UEFI, and that you have integrated Intel graphics too (630 or above).