Hiya,
I’m starting to build a blu-ray collection and I wanted to purchase a blu ray drive that both reads and writes with decent speeds as well as good linux compatibility. A nice bonus would be if it included DVD R/W as well, but it isn’t important to me. Send me recommendations!
Are you looking for an internal drive that fits into a tower?
Negative, all external. I don’t have a case that has an internal drive closure.
There are not that many external blueray writers. I guess i would recommend this one because it does state it works on Linux. It’s usb 3.0 has 2 year US based Warranty. I’m not sure of your location.
Also because it’s made in Japan.
https://www.buffalotech.com/products/mediastation-16x-desktop-bdxl-blu-ray-writer
I will take a look but damn that price is crazy, I will keep an eye out on this.
Here’s another source and price.
You can find cheaper :
An internal drive+USB enclosure is a good alternative.
If you want to watch Blu ray on your PC? forget it!
You gonna run into to much issue playing them, I gave up on that idea long ago, and bought a good normal Blu ray player.
Tere are programs who can help with the stupid blu ray copy protection bullshit like:
But for blu ray thy work only sometimes(sure I haven’t tried in years, but I doubt thy improved much since then).
Just get a good Blu ray player!
It was working fine for me 7-8 years ago, I had just to replace the Blu-ray libs with the Makemkv one, something like :
sudo ln -s libmmbd.so.x libbdplus.so.x
sudo ln -s libmmbd.so.x libaacs.so.x
but I stopped using my computer for Blu-rays 4-5 years ago, I don’t know what is the BR situation now.
Maybe slightly cheaper but I’d rather have the one made in Japan.
If you’re just looking for something that works without bells and whistles, inexpensive…
Here’s one option…
There are MANY options on Amazon with prices far below $100
Sure but look out for scamers! Tere is a lot of them on Amazon!
Scammers everywhere. I just read reviews. Anything I buy off of Amazon must have at least 100 reviews and a rating of 4 stars or more. Otherwise, I scroll on by.
If it ships from Amazon it shouldn’t be a problem.
Mine was an LG and it worked great.
Yes… I like LG. 