Pioneer BDR-XD07B - 6x Slim Portable USB 3.0 BD/DVD/CD Burner - Supports BDXL & M-Disc Format - USB Bus Powered, Cyberlink Software Included

We bought this device thinking it would work on a PC or Mac. Fact is that it doesnt work with Chromebook, Linux PCs or MacBook. Requires a variety of additional adapters and software. After purchasing over $50 in adapters, we learned that it doesnt actually play Blu-Ray movies.

It’s a burner! Works like a burner, sounds like a burner…

Out of the box, this product will play CDs and DVDs, and assuming that Blu-ray software is installed on the computer, it will play BDs as well. Great! It does what its supposed to do. So far, 5 stars. Unfortunately, thats far from the whole story. Pressing the button to open the player doesnt open the player. It merely unlocks the lid, so the user has to raise the lid manually. Then theres the off-white USB cable. Its a real eyesore when attached to a black computer case and connected to this black player. 5 stars are reduced to 4. Unfortunately, thats not the whole story either. If you download and install the Media Suite software, which the instructions tell you to do, you will find that not only is the software ancient, but also that it creates on your Desktop an incredibly obnoxious 2x3-inch window which cannot be hidden by any means whatsoever. When you try to remove it by uninstalling the software, it goes away, but the Media Suite itself cannot be deleted. It remains in Control Panel > Programs and Features, and cannot be removed by any means whatsoever, including third-party delete tools, registry edits, and System Restore. Youre stuck with it unless you revert your computer to a previously created system image, or else reinstall your OS. This is software programming at its absolutely unforgivable worst. 4 stars are reduced to 1. If you buy this player, and youre willing to put up with the annoying lid that wont open by itself and the ugly white USB cable, do not, repeat, DO NOT install the software. If you do, you will regret it.

To be honest, Im actually disappointed with the product. Its grossly expensive for how mechanically simple it is, and its the mechanically simple aspect of it which is why I chose this over other players. Fewer automatic/moving parts, = fewer things to go wrong over time. However, the hefty price doesnt justify the lack of complexity of this particular product, even those I chose to buy it regardless of that hoping other aspects will make it worth wild. A few issues Ive had with it out of the box. 1. It doesnt come with any software, and tries to coax you into downloading a suite which comes with unnecessary bloatware, and bloatware might as well be considered malware. Though downloading this stuff is option, and I absolutely avoided it, and chose to download a free player. The fact it didnt bother to even send you a disk with player software on it, and asked you to go to a URL is just absolutely lazy/cheap definitely for the price they charge, and the fact it was pretty much something they got for free being its basically glorified adware which most likely cost them nothing makes it quite disappointing. 2. The power USB Cable for this product is proprietary. Which is unacceptable. I doubt the USB cable that comes with this will work on any other product, as Ive never seen its connecter anywhere else before. Such Cables should be illegal in my mind, as it makes getting a replacement considerably more difficult if at all possible in a reasonable way. Worse yet the USB Cable is ridiculously short, which would be fine for a laptop, but just a few extra inches would of made it usable on just about any device including a desktop, as fewer and fewer desktops today are including disc drives of any kind. Coming with a Longer Cable should of been included. 3. The product doesnt read all Blu-Ray Disk Formats. This I was surprised as my 7 year old Blu-ray Disk Drive on my old PC ran any format of Blu-Ray and the darn thing cost like $30 bucks back then. I found it will not read specific blu-ray formats. Though it seems to work just fine for movies. Over all, I would say Im actually disappointed in the product. Coming with some kind of software should of come with the package being the price was so steep. Coming with a longer Cable for its excessive price would of been nice, or at least not a proprietary connector so I could use something I already have to make up for your tight accountants. Being able to read all blu-ray formats for its price would of been nice, the reason I primarily bought it, turned out to be worthless to me, but at least it plays movies (Sarcastic thumbs up). I see nothing that justifies the steep price of this product, there are older products for almost half the price which can do more. All I found were reasons that I should of bought another product.

Got the unit yesterday and hooked it up without any issues. The unit works perfectly with the Cyberlink Software that is included. All in all, I could not be more pleased, and for all that it does, it is not to noisy from the high speed disk spinning required sometimes. Would recommend this versitile unit highly....

The drive itself behaves as expected for a Blu-ray player, which is mostly what I picked it up for. Pioneer still makes a fantastic product, and it supports way more formats than I expected. Others complained about the open button placement, Im not one of them. Hard case is a nice touch with room for drive, cable (which is only 1 foot btw), and multiple discs, or other stuff you want to stuff into it. Thats the good news. The bad is the price I paid for the hassle I got installing Cyberlink Media Suite. Partly my fault for losing my password to the last two iterations of Cyberlink login. Good luck recovering the password, the email has yet to grace my inbox anywhere. Now, it took me a couple hours to figure out I needed another email since they wont help. The link works like this. You enter the address manually, it takes you to the EULA agreement page where youd expect to just Agree and Download. Wrong...Sends you to the Cyberlink Login page. This might have gone differently if I had just registered a new email, entered the code, and downloaded the installer. You have to register, takes you to Cyberlinks bloated page with no way to enter a code. Sign out and close the browser. Relaunch, enter the code address again and it will go to the EULA, webpage login with Step 1, then code step 2, then download step three. It still took 30 minutes to get 1.6gb on a 300mb connection, so on Cyberlinks slow ftp. And the copy is Media Suite 10, which is a bit dated (if Id read the description better I would have noted that). Still worked with Windows 10 despite it complaining about some features not working. The bad thing about dated software is you never know when Microsoft will obsolete it completely. Buyer beware, just get a player and the software separate. Youll be much better off.

I bought this to replace a failing LG external BD Drive that was about a year old. I am in the process of working on my media library so I only use this to read disks. I do not watch movies with this drive, nor do I write disks with it. Overall I am happy. The cord is a USB 3 compatible cord, only takes one slot (unlike the LG which took 2 USB slots), and has a pretty good read speed. This drive was even able to read a disk that my LG drive couldnt so I am happy about that. The things I didnt like about it. One, it is a bit pricey compared to other drives but you could chalk that up to you get what you pay for; and two, the drive is a lift lid versus slide the disk in. The lid does not lock into place so you kind of have to watch that as youre loading a disk.

It even came with a software BLU-RAY player.

I use this on MacBook Pro, and it works great for disc playback, I have not tried the burning functions yet.

The product came with a product key and link to software to be able to write data. The link brings you to a site with a dozen products with none matching the name given in the documentation. Pretty much useless. I use the drive to read which works fine but now have no way to write.