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

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.

Great product like it’s predecessors

Nice BluRay player, however the instruction manual leaves a LOT to be desired. Be prepared to spend some time with the manual.

The deive worked great for 30 days until the trial period on Cyberlink software ran out. Then they want $99 for you to be able to play bluray movies. The software bundled with it will basically only let you record and play ones you make.

Had trouble with the software download and install

I made a huge mistake. I purchased a generic Bluray drive with an external power source. I swapped the power source plug for the wrong one on accident, and ended up frying two USB ports on my laptop. Not only that, but the generic drive just didnt play smoothly. USB 2.0 is pretty slow for HD video it seems. THIS PRODUCT, however, remedies ALL the issues I had with the generic player. This needs no external power and transfers at a far quicker rate. Ive been very happy with this, and the case helps to protect it. Heres to hoping for longevity and smooth disc-reading.

I have not used the blue-ray (waiting for the disks to be delivered), but it worked well with both single layer and dual layer DVDs. The playback of DVDs was also fine. We do have a large screen TV (65 inches), but only an inexpensive sound bar so have no way to test the audio properties, but the video portion was perfect. I di some video editing - so i did have full copies of Cyberlink software. The crippled versions that was included with the player is OK, but just a tease to upgraded to the full version. I have had Pioneer audio equipment since my college year (many years ago) and it was nice to see that their quality has not diminished over the years

Best proformance for watching and writing Blu ray disc and other types of disc media, no additional drivers needed, supporting softwares from CyberLink are appropriate to help me use this drive effectively. Portable and is worth my money.

Its worthy...Good Product !!!

Love the slim drive profile. Splendid performer for DVD and Blu-Ray viewing.