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

First off, its a little pricey compared to a few others. However, it just works. In this case, you get what you pay for. Its a Pioneer and works like it knows it is. I ran this all day ripping old backup -R/-RW disks to back them up. Ireally had this running for most of about 100 hours and it never once failed me or gave any problems. Truly plug and play. It was even able to read DVDs that I couldnt read in my older desktop DVD-R/RW Panasonic drive. It plays BD fast and balances itself fairly well. Not too much vibration unless youve got bad disks. Even then, the noise was minimal. It even came with a third-party travel case that has held up pretty well to a few rough trips. Definitely worth it.

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.

Awesome burner. Burned over 60 BluRay discs the first day I had it. Worked flawlessly on both iMac and PC laptop.

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

Thought I could use this drive with my new MacBook Pro (M1). The unit does not come with a USB C cable so you cant directly attach it to the MacBook. When I try to connect with the dongle, the mac wont recognize it.

as a down stream player, recorder, burner.

Had trouble with the software download and install

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.

Good Item and Good Seller

The main objective for buying this product was to burn blu ray dvd. The Cyberlink software suite which they give free with this product is absolutely useless. Cyberlink Powerproducer software which is the main software needed to burn blu ray dvd is NOT included in that media suite. you have to buy it separately for around $70. I wasted my entire day to realize my mistake. so returning this product back.