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We spent 46 hours on research, videography, and editing, to review the top choices for this wiki. As computers become more compact and mobile in design, they're not always going to be manufactured with integrated optical drives.
So if you want the option of watching and burning high-definition files to disc media, you'll need one of these external Blu-ray drives to get the job done. Many are backwards compatible with the DVD format and offer plug-and-play operation on your Mac, PC, or both. When users buy our independently chosen editorial picks, we may earn commissions to support our work. We spent 46 hours on research, videography, and editing, to review the top choices for this wiki.
As computers become more compact and mobile in design, they're not always going to be manufactured with integrated optical drives. So if you want the option of watching and burning high-definition files to disc media, you'll need one of these external Blu-ray drives to get the job done. Many are backwards compatible with the DVD format and offer plug-and-play operation on your Mac, PC, or both. When users buy our independently chosen editorial picks, we may earn commissions to support our work. There's a scene in Zoolander during which Maurie Gold, played with effortless crotchety aplomb by Jerry Stiller, reveals to the film's villain that all the incriminating evidence that was just destroyed by an idiot male model is backed up at Gold's house on a.
I just saw the film again for the first time in a decade, and the mention of a Zip drive sent me reeling. If you don't recognize the format, you're not alone. Zip drive was a short-lived, and ultimately unnecessary data storage method. It used proprietary disks and a proprietary drive, which was almost never found on the spec sheets of any available computer. Like these external Blu-ray drives, they existed outside the tower or laptop, connected by an old USB 1.0 cord. Blu-ray is certainly a popular and more useful format that Zip drives ever could have been, and both their drives and discs are a lot more common. We know that the drives we've evaluated connect by a much faster USB 3.0, but other than that, how exactly do they work?
What makes Blu-ray significantly different from DVD is the light used to read the data on the disc. Traditional DVD players read their discs with red lasers, the wavelength of which is approximately 650 nanometers. Blu-ray, as its name implies, employs a blue laser, which has a shorter wavelength of approximately 405 nanometers, allowing it to be more sharply focused. Blu-ray and DVD discs work about the same way, a lot like, in which the grooves read by a needle translate back into the musical vibrations that imprinted them in the first place. The finer lasers on Blu-ray drives can accurately read smaller grooves in the disc, allowing more information to squeeze its way onto the format. When that laser reads the information in the grooves, it heads through your USB port and to your video card, where your computer translates it back into the image captured by the camera, or back into whatever data you've stored on the disc.
Zip drives faded rather quickly, but the size, efficiency, and popularity of Blu-ray discs and movies ought to make investing in one of these external drives a safe bet. Drive Yourself Crazy From the outside, most of the external Blu-ray drives on our list look a lot alike. Some can function as vertical disc drives, so they stands on their sides as opposed to laying flat, but beyond that, it's tough to make a choice among them based on looks alone. Just make sure you pick the proper hardware to handle the job, as not all of the drives on our list support that kind of work. In addition to reading Blu-ray discs, these drives can also read and write to CD, DVD, and Blu-ray. Those write speeds will differ from drive to drive, so if you've got a high-quantity in the works, you'll want something that can write fast. You should also look into the types of Blu-ray discs supported in reading and writing processes.
If you fell victim to the agonizing and nearly inexplicable differences between DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RW, and the other suspicious disc formats that cropped up around the advent of the DVD player, you know that slight differences in the design of a disc can leave your intentions for it in a lurch. The same is true of the layering process on Blu-ray discs, which allows you to write multiple lines of grooves onto a single disc, potentially quadrupling its capacity. Just make sure you pick the proper hardware to handle the job, as not all of the drives on our list support that kind of work.
The Tale Of An Ugly Twin Technologists at Sony and Pioneer knew that the DVD format had a ceiling to it. They knew that the beam cast by their red laser diodes could be better focused if it were simply a different color. They also knew that the thirst to store and share ever-increasing file sizes was one that would not, and still will not, be quenched. The first editions of their XBox 360 systems had external HD-DVD players available for purchase, though not built into the system tower itself.
In 2000, the companies unveiled the first prototypes of DVR discs that read and wrote with a blue laser. By February of the following year, the inventors filed an on the logo, and Blu-ray was born. Shortly after its birth, however, an ugly twin came screaming forth from the birth canal. For all intents and purposes, it was an identical twin, but sometimes there are identical twins that somehow don't seem to get the same share in beauty or ability.
This ugly twin needed a name, and the industry cooked up a moniker as ugly as the child: HD-DVD. The companies vied for supremacy in the marketplace for a short while, with Microsoft mistakenly taking HD-DVD's miserable side. The first editions of their XBox 360 systems had external HD-DVD players available for purchase, though not built into the system tower itself. Sony, on the other hand, launched its Playstation 3 with a Blu-ray drive built in, and sales of Blu-ray discs and drives so thoroughly outpaced those of HD-DVD, that the ugly twin found itself a handy burlap sack and promptly, leaving Blu-ray to reign supreme.
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USB2 Blu ray burner This one works well with a new (skinny) iMac even though it is only USB2: I have burnt numerous 25Gb disks as an archive - they just appear in Finder where I can drag folders and click the burn icon. It claims to work with 50GB disks as well. It plays Blue Ray movies well with the trial software included (I have not watched a whole movie yet - just several minutes - the picture quality is exceptional) I bought it as a temporary measure but am now not sure sure that I need a USB3 device. In any case it is working through a USB2 hub and so is not using up precious USB3 ports on the back of the iMac. Click to expand.Well so far I've counted 3 people with problems. 1 noted that they replaced the drive = all is well 1 noted that they replaced the USB cable = all is well 1 noted possible software problem, either OS X or the app There are folks on here with just as many problems with macsales/OWC drives and Samsung drives and external superdrives.
I'd still like to hear from those that have the drive if they are noticing any other hiccups, those that may be associated with the drive itself, the enclosure, cabling or software/app issues. Cjp23 mentioned that he was using the Pioneer BDR-XD04 and the LG External.
Funny thing, I just returned the LG and bought the Pioneer. LG = $150 @ Best Buy (when I bought it, but it has dropped to $125 last week and $130 this week). Pioneer = Clearance at Best Buy right now for $65 (if your store has it in stock SKU 4566016).
I had a $10 off $50 coupon that expired today, and used that, so $55. What a steal. The store was supposed to have two, but they could not find the second one, otherwise I would have grabbed it too. I can live with the slower speed (6x Pioneer vs 8x LG BD-DL Read). The Pioneer was quite a bit cheaper, and portable. Yeah it needs 2 USB and is only USB 2.0, but the cost and size were a turn off for me (I use this with my MacBook and iMac).
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So far ripping Batman Begins and it peaked at 26.3M/s 6.1x (starts at 2x on the inner track, and speeds up as it moves to the outside of the disc) on the Pioneer. The drive should have up to 6x on BD-DL, whereas the LG I was getting 6x and it is up to 8x on BD-DL.
The Pioneer finished in 21 minutes. Honestly I would pass on the LG if you are just ripping and not burning. Most movies are BD-DL and LG has a Max 8x Read on those discs, and 12x Read on the SL 25GB discs. CES is next week, hopefully there will be some new drives released, but I am happy with my Pioneer portable for $55. While the LaCie USB 3.0 Drive looks great, it really is not. According to their specs they list: BD-R (single layer) 6x BD-R (dual layer) 4x So the USB 2.0 Pioneer is faster at 6x? What a rip off LaCie.
Samsung just released the SE-506BB in the last month, replacing the SE-506AB. This is still USB 2.0 but it now reads BD-R QL and has faster BD-R TL. Works for Me I did a ton of research and decided to get the LG BE14NU40. I cannot get it to read Blue Ray movies but just burned a 25GB Home Movie using my new iMac 27inch and had no issues. Using Toast 11. That said, any advice or knowledge is appreciated. I do not know if it is my tv (all are 45-55 inch Samsung) but the darker colors ruin the picture.
Even high def movies have some pixel issues when the colors get darker. Question is this. The home videos I am editing and burning to blue ray were all done in the 80's and 90's using a VHS camera. They look good on smaller tv's but when on the larger ones (which will be the case most of the time now) darker colors and scenes are very hard to see. Does anyone have any tricks, etc.
That I can use to help make them look better? Also, is it impossible to shrink it to 16:9 or am I stuck with 4:3 since that is how it was originally recorded? When adding from the VCR to my computer I applied the 16:9 aspect ratio but it still converted in 4:3. Also, the DVD Menu's on Toast 11 suck. I would like to add music to the DVD Menu, be able to label the scenes that are on the menu, possible motion menus, etc. Am I out of luck when using Toast? I heard iDVD had a much better deal but does not support blue ray well.
I did a ton of research and decided to get the LG BE14NU40. I cannot get it to read Blue Ray movies but just burned a 25GB Home Movie using my new iMac 27inch and had no issues. Using Toast 11. That said, any advice or knowledge is appreciated. I do not know if it is my tv (all are 45-55 inch Samsung) but the darker colors ruin the picture. Even high def movies have some pixel issues when the colors get darker.
Question is this. The home videos I am editing and burning to blue ray were all done in the 80's and 90's using a VHS camera. They look good on smaller tv's but when on the larger ones (which will be the case most of the time now) darker colors and scenes are very hard to see.
Does anyone have any tricks, etc. That I can use to help make them look better? Also, is it impossible to shrink it to 16:9 or am I stuck with 4:3 since that is how it was originally recorded? When adding from the VCR to my computer I applied the 16:9 aspect ratio but it still converted in 4:3. Also, the DVD Menu's on Toast 11 suck. I would like to add music to the DVD Menu, be able to label the scenes that are on the menu, possible motion menus, etc. Am I out of luck when using Toast?
I heard iDVD had a much better deal but does not support blue ray well. I have been having nothing but problems with this drive since I plugged it in to my 27' 2012 iMac. The main problem I've been having is that the blu-ray drive doesn't get read by mac.
At first I was putting in DVDs and nothing. Tried restarting, replugging in, checking for drivers, called apple, called LG yada yada.
The funny thing is that it ran fine on my 2011 iMac running Lion and runs fine on my 2008 MBP running SL. I saw a forum online mentioning unchecking the energy saving 'put hard disks to sleep' seemed to help.
I did that, and I actually thought my problems were solved! I was able to boot to my windows install disc and install windows on my bootcamp partition. Then, when I went to burn a blank DVD it flaked out on me again. I'll try the Belkin cable just to see if by chance it makes a difference as some have said, though I have a hard time imagining it will.
I really would like to use this drive as it seems to be one of the better drives on the market, and not terribly uneasy on the eyes. The OWC options don't appear to support BDXL either. Not sure if Roxio does, but this LG burner does. Anyone find any fixes for this dropping/not recognizing issue. It's really frustrating! If need be I'll return it to Best Buy, but I would like to not have to if possible.
Click to expand.So I will let you know if this fix works for me later today as my cable is arriving by mail. I know initially I probably restarted, reconnected, unplugged and plugged in 5 different ways for probably 5 minutes the first time before the computer suddenly recognized it. This was short lived.
I spoke with LG and they have no intention of releasing a firmware update according to the less than helpful rep. He said, 'oh, it doesn't work for that version. Apple needs to fix that.' (Not typically the way of things when you're the peripheral maker.). I then called apple back and actually after some persistence had a lot of help. Spoke with a supervisor, she sent a log capture off to engineering and apple's engineering dept recommended trying a new cable. If this doesn't work I can say officially that unless a new firmware comes out from LG, people should probably avoid this drive.
So I will let you know if this fix works for me later today as my cable is arriving by mail. I know initially I probably restarted, reconnected, unplugged and plugged in 5 different ways for probably 5 minutes the first time before the computer suddenly recognized it. This was short lived. I spoke with LG and they have no intention of releasing a firmware update according to the less than helpful rep. He said, 'oh, it doesn't work for that version. Apple needs to fix that.'
(Not typically the way of things when you're the peripheral maker.). I then called apple back and actually after some persistence had a lot of help. Spoke with a supervisor, she sent a log capture off to engineering and apple's engineering dept recommended trying a new cable. If this doesn't work I can say officially that unless a new firmware comes out from LG, people should probably avoid this drive.
Click to expand.Yea. Sorry, wasn't sure anyone was still reading this thread!
So replacement cable did NOT work. Apple engineers got back with me and they actually thought the replacing cable or replacing system was a good idea. It looked like repeated I/O errors, like the connection was going in and out.
They suggested changing cable or changing machine. I bought another one after returning the previous one at my local Best Buy. Brought it home. It did NOT work.
This time at first it stayed connected, was able to install bootcamp drivers, but after restarting the device and restarting mac (just to test its connection viability) it stopped working. I have a portable 2.0 Samsung one on the way. The other thing I was thinking is that it could be my electrical outlet??? I think it's a little far-fetched, but I don't have anything else plugged into the outlet. But everything I have plugged in, e.g., a macbook. Runs fine without disconnecting. So I find that a little hard to believe.
The other thing I'll note is that write speeds on current media usually don't go that much faster than 6X. So really, USB 3.0 is a little unnecessary even though I wanted it 'just because'.