ASUS BW-16D1X-U 16x External Blu-ray BDXL Drive with BD Suite Disc USB 3.0 Cable Power Adapter and Cord

Glad blu ray burners and discs are finally affordable

The item was first-rate and exquisite. Immensely quick dispatch. Neat packaging.

I can see people are confused how disc burners works in 2020, so let me explain. There is a ton of illegal piracy out there, so in 2012 there was both a law and a patent out there that states that all disc burners must be required to use firmware that prevents users of just making endless copies of movies ect., so in 2020 on a PC you can only burn media files or data onto a disc, you cannot directly copy media directly from a disc, nor can you use drives to watch movies on your computer because of the legality of pirate of just screen capturing. It can be done, but its through illegal 3rd party means

This seems like a sound Blu-ray drive and I do like it. Software must be purchased in order to play Blu-ray discs on the PC. PowerDVD is an example of the software needed.

I need to rescind my previous 1-star review on this ASUS BW-16D1X-U 16x External Blu-ray BDXL Drive. I was hasty in filing my review before doing more extensive trouble shooting. I connected this drive to another computer and it works just fine. It turns out that the Dell PC, into which it was connected, is having some kind of issue. Im contacting Dell Tech Support today and Ill let them trouble shoot this problem. My apologies to ASUS and to everyone who did NOT purchase this drive based off of my incorrect assessment of the issue. I WOULD purchase this again.

It does not play blue ray dvds.

easy to setup and install drivers. I do not recommend using the software provided to rip dvds or BluRays. I have used handbrake over the years, but I prefer makeMKV, because it doesnt matter if its tv shows or a movie makeMKV breaks apart all the episodes for you, unlike handbrake which you have to add all of the episodes to the queue manually.

Works perfectly on windows 11. Comes complete with software.

East to set up and worked fine the first time

Doesnt work with windows 10. Drivers are missing and there is no download from the ASUS website. Dont recommend