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LG 14x SATA Internal Blu-ray Rewriter

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Amazon has LG Electronics 14x SATA Blu-ray Internal Rewriter (WH14NS40) on sale for $49.99. Shipping is free.

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Features:
  • Drive Type: Super-Multi Internal SATA Blu-ray Disc Rewriter
  • BD-R SL/DL: 14X/12XDVD-R SL/DL: 16X/8XDVD+R SL/DL: 16X/8X
  • CD-RW: 24X
  • Buffer Memory: 4MB
  • Operating System: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
  • Without Software

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    • Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars w/ over 3,400 Amazon customer reviews.
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  • About this deal:
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Amazon has LG Electronics 14x SATA Blu-ray Internal Rewriter (WH14NS40) on sale for $49.99. Shipping is free.

Newegg also has LG Electronics 14x SATA Blu-ray Internal Rewriter (WH14NS40) on sale for $49.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member WB_K for sharing this deal.

Features:
  • Drive Type: Super-Multi Internal SATA Blu-ray Disc Rewriter
  • BD-R SL/DL: 14X/12XDVD-R SL/DL: 16X/8XDVD+R SL/DL: 16X/8X
  • CD-RW: 24X
  • Buffer Memory: 4MB
  • Operating System: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
  • Without Software

Editor's Notes

Written by BostonGirl
  • About this product:
    • Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars w/ over 3,400 Amazon customer reviews.
    • See forum thread for additional deal discussion.
  • About this deal:
    • This deal is $20 lower (28.57% savings) than the list price of $69.99.
  • About this store:

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bjgfromthe703
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Grabbed one last week sold by Amazon.com. I successfully flashed it to the 1.02MK firmware using this USB adadpter:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...UTF8&psc=1

and was able to rip a UHD title with MakeMKV.
violian
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Keep in mind that if you have a 12th gen Intel, you won't be able to use this to play standard or 4K Blu-ray movies on your PC because Intel removed some required HDCP security thing from their newest chips (citing that the HDCP handshake protocol is a security vulnerability).

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Jan 25, 2022 03:32 PM
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BrianW6045Jan 25, 2022 03:32 PM
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Quote from bjgfromthe703 :
Grabbed one last week sold by Amazon.com. I successfully flashed it to the 1.02MK firmware using this USB adadpter:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...UTF8&psc=1

and was able to rip a UHD title with MakeMKV.
To clarify/confirm, were you able to rip the Blu-ray while connected via the USB adapter?
Jan 25, 2022 03:34 PM
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atx11Jan 25, 2022 03:34 PM
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Quote from Clompshark :
This is very much a stretch. If by "legacy" you mean intel i7 and newer i5s along with a GPU with enough VRAM to have some sort of realistic cache. Oh wait, those GPUs sell for hundreds more than their original MSRP even years later (see RX 480). I guess if legacy you mean Original Ryzen sure. Try running this on an athalon or (god help you) bulldozer/piledriver. It may work, but it will be a terrible experience.
You don't need a GPU at all. Lookup Intel QSV.
Jan 25, 2022 03:36 PM
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Burton9EricJan 25, 2022 03:36 PM
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I see it says

1. Make sure your Drive was built after 2015 on label

I bought mine in 2015 would this be a nogo for flashing?
Jan 25, 2022 03:39 PM
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currocjJan 25, 2022 03:39 PM
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Quote from 80is :
Last year someone posted a VHS/DVD combo player, and all hell broke loose.

The price is back to $270 now [walmart.com]
I laughed about this post for 15 minutes last night. Thanks for the hilarity
Jan 25, 2022 03:52 PM
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slugbugJan 25, 2022 03:52 PM
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Quote from currocj :
I laughed about this post for 15 minutes last night. Thanks for the hilarity
What? We got one of these from a thrift store for about $10.
Jan 25, 2022 03:59 PM
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GandalfNYCJan 25, 2022 03:59 PM
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Quote from djsvetljo :
The stupidity in this thread is infinite. Guys, if you don't know what you are talking about either ask or move on.
Considering most people don't even understand 1 billion or 1 trillion, let alone something infinitely larger, perhaps "infinite" was not the right word to use. "Numeric infinity" is different than "stupidity infinity," but it would at least imply that everything stated in the thread was incorrect. This is not the case. nod
Jan 25, 2022 04:01 PM
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VioletFruit436Jan 25, 2022 04:01 PM
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Quote from 49studebaker :
During Black Friday/Cyber Monday and a few days later, it was $45. I was hoping it would drop to $40. According to CamelCamelCamel the lowest price was $35. I don't think this burner will get much cheaper since there is not a lot of demand for burners because of online video.

Buy a pack of M-discs and backup your data. If your data is very important backup it to two M-discs. If one disc gets damaged, you can recover data from the spare disc. As far as I know, data on a Recordable M-disc can NOT be erased or encrypted. It is a good way to protect your data from ransomware.

Some people prefer not to keep sensitive data in the cloud. If a cloud service goes offline(Google cloud, Amazon web services), you can not access your data. Some times cloud storage services shut down(Samsung cloud). If hackers gain access to your cloud account, your data could be leaked or encrypted.

Some cloud services keep older versions of your data, but hackers can encrypt your data multiple times, which would result in older versions of your data being encrypted.
All this talk about M-Disc really warrants discussion of what M-Disc actually is.

Standard CDR/DVD+-R media is LTH (low to high)
Standard BDR media is HTL (high to low)

M-Disc DVD media is just a HTL DVD disc, and that's why it requires a special burner, as it needs to write DVD media in the same manner a regular Blu-Ray burner would write to BDRs.

HTL media is really the "magic" behind M-Disc, as this type of media is a lot more stable long-term. But, with that said, since standard BDR discs are already HTL, I'm not convinced that there will be much of any difference between "standard" and "M-Disc" BDRs; the main thing is just to make sure you steer clear of the cheap garbage "LTH Type" BDR media.

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Jan 25, 2022 04:04 PM
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GandalfNYCJan 25, 2022 04:04 PM
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Quote from WB_K :
LG Electronics 14x SATA Blu-ray Internal Rewriter without Software, Black (WH14NS40)

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007VPGL5U?

Newegg:
https://www.newegg.com/lg-wh14ns4...6827136250

Downgrade firmware to v1.02 to make full use of it.
Here YouTube video.
https://youtu.be/Yfpf6HoMMis

Check to see it works as QC is suspect. As long as it does best bang. Long time since 2018 on SD.

Other resource:
https://www.reddit.com/r/makemkv/..._wh16ns40/

External enclosure (not sure if u need to buy one with adapter but in past got everything for $50 so msrp went up):
https://www.bing.com/fd/ls/GLinkP...U1SVU4wSFE
(Actually for $96 includes everything including wh14ns40 so that's not bad).
Great deal, thank you.

Fellow Slickdealers, do not use this for anything illegal. It won't end well. shake head

Unfortunately, we are living in the age of monitoring/recording/surveillance/spyware. It is not possible to avoid it all.
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Jan 25, 2022 04:06 PM
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bjgfromthe703Jan 25, 2022 04:06 PM
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Quote from BrianW6045 :
To clarify/confirm, were you able to rip the Blu-ray while connected via the USB adapter?
yep! i had issues flashing when plugged into a usb hub but plugging the usb adapter straight into my desktop worked great for both flashing and ripping
Jan 25, 2022 04:12 PM
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VioletFruit436Jan 25, 2022 04:12 PM
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Quote from 49studebaker :
I picked up a 3pack of Ridata mdiscs at Walmart before Black Friday for $6. $3 per disc is not too expensive.

I think an mdisc will outlast other storage solutions. I could be wrong but I think the data is etched into plastic. Plastic does not break down for 100's of years.

If a flash drive, ssd, or hdd fails it is hard to get data off of the device. You would need a data recovery company to recover the data. That could cost a thousand dollars. If a Blu-ray drive fails you could just buy another and read the data off the mdisc. If there is demand they probably will not stop manufacturing them. Another way to recover data would be to use a digital microscope to read pits etched in the disc surface and then convert it to computer data. Probably time consuming and expensive, but if you need the data it would be an option.
The "magic" behind M-Disc is the fact that they're using HTL media.
This required special hardware in the DVD format because normal CDR/DVDR discs use LTH media, but standard BDR discs are already HTL.

So, as long as you're staying away from "LTH Type" BDR discs, I would be very skeptical of claims that M-Disc BDRs are going to be immensely better than regular BDR media.
Jan 25, 2022 04:30 PM
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donyjunkJan 25, 2022 04:30 PM
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Quote from lesterhung :
Wanna bet? I can put any resolution video onto a Blu ray disk and any other data that's not even video
Isn't it the same with DVD? There's a standard for putting data on a disc, and there's one for media file structure and encoding format in order to play on all consumer AV devices that claim to be "DVD" players. Same with "blu-ray".
Jan 25, 2022 04:45 PM
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ThanksDudeJan 25, 2022 04:45 PM
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Description for product doesn't include windows 10. Surprised to see these still being sold regardless if works with Win10 or not.
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Jan 25, 2022 04:58 PM
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bjgfromthe703Jan 25, 2022 04:58 PM
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Quote from ThanksDude :
Description for product doesn't include windows 10. Surprised to see these still being sold regardless if works with Win10 or not.
It works out of the box with Windows 10, no needing to install drivers or other tweaking required.
Jan 25, 2022 05:34 PM
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CrimsonRose733Jan 25, 2022 05:34 PM
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Quote from bjgfromthe703 :
Grabbed one last week sold by Amazon.com. I successfully flashed it to the 1.02MK firmware using this USB adadpter:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...UTF8&psc=1 [amazon.com]

and was able to rip a UHD title with MakeMKV.
Do you mind sharing what kind of rip speed you are getting?

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Jan 25, 2022 05:47 PM
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BeigeHalibut2673Jan 25, 2022 05:47 PM
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Is there a way to convert old dvds with dvdfab split movies (over two discs) and dvdshrink backups to something that can be placed on a server? Have a few backups from discs back in the day that i would like to play since i have skip scratches on the originals.

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