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

Great for dual layer and blu-ray

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.

I dont have a great need for a Blue-ray writer, but when I need it, I want it to work flawlessly. I chose the Pioneer for the name and the reasonable price and have not been disappointed. Ive owned several portables over the years (CD,DVD,Blue-Ray) and have never had one that lasts long traveling with me. So far, the Pioneer has been going great and has the fewest problems of any that Ive owned.

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.

Portability is great, though Id say the case is bigger than it needs to be. Didnt care for the bundled software. Functionality is so-so. Using it if you need to install something from a disc is fine. Watching a movie isnt as good as Id expect for this price. In a movie lasting an hour and a half it paused for a few seconds at least a dozen times while the drive made an audible spinning sound like it was struggling to read the disc. There are no issues with the disc. My other computers built-in drive as well as the player hooked up to my TV have no issues. Its just this drive. So if you just need it to install programs that are still on disc or maybe want to listen to CDs, its probably fine. I dont advise getting this to watch movies with. Its not worth it.

Great blu ray burner and player. Liked it so much bought two.

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.

Alright blue-ray but the software is junk

Had zero problems with the unit and I highly recommend it.

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