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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
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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).
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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.
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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heribertoh9774
01-31-2022 at 05:31 PM.
01-31-2022 at 05:31 PM.
who needs a rewriter when you got mkv files/HDbits?
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VioletFruit436
02-02-2022 at 08:28 AM.
02-02-2022 at 08:28 AM.
Quote from postulio :
this is funny, i decided to look into what my drive is and see if this is an upgrade, and **i bought the exact same drive, from newegg, in 2012 for $55 with a 10 pack of BDRs thrown in for free**

it still works, granted i barely used it. so good deal i guesss
It might be the same model number, but that unfortunately doesn't make it the same drive...you can't do anything with UHD discs unless it was manufactured after 2015, per all the instructions on the various links posted on this thread.
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postulio
02-03-2022 at 12:58 PM.
02-03-2022 at 12:58 PM.
Quote from VioletFruit436 :
It might be the same model number, but that unfortunately doesn't make it the same drive...you can't do anything with UHD discs unless it was manufactured after 2015, per all the instructions on the various links posted on this thread.
you mean it won't play UHD discs? even without a firmware update? I don't use my PC in my home theater so it's never come up. and i'm not interested in ripping discs.
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02-03-2022 at 01:10 PM.
02-03-2022 at 01:10 PM.
Quote from postulio :
you mean it won't play UHD discs? even without a firmware update? I don't use my PC in my home theater so it's never come up. and i'm not interested in ripping discs.

Correct. My understanding is that it is not possible to make older drives work with UHD discs at all.
This model number is listed as a "UHD Friendly" drive, which means it would never play UHD discs out of the box, but can have a firmware change to make it work, and all the firmware information states "make sure your drive was built after 2015."
If you don't care about UHD, your older drive will still work fine for everything else; it's just annoying when manufacturers retain the same model number while changing the product's capabilities.
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02-21-2022 at 10:37 PM.
02-21-2022 at 10:37 PM.
Quote from VioletFruit436 :
Correct. My understanding is that it is not possible to make older drives work with UHD discs at all.
This model number is listed as a "UHD Friendly" drive, which means it would never play UHD discs out of the box, but can have a firmware change to make it work, and all the firmware information states "make sure your drive was built after 2015."
If you don't care about UHD, your older drive will still work fine for everything else; it's just annoying when manufacturers retain the same model number while changing the product's capabilities.
thanks a lot for the info! really interesting and i agree quite vexing for manufacturers to do that vs just having a different model number for drives that work with UHD. It doesn't affect me now but who knows, maybe in the future i would've wanted to burn an UHD disc or something. This might've saved me a lot of aggravation lol. Applause

it is interesting though that LG essentially kept the price of this drive the same for a decade, using same parts for the most part, and just adding functionality. If anything it staying $50 is a great deal in 2022. Accounting for inflation alone $50 in 2012 is $63 now and the buying power of $50 dropped to $40 over the 10 years.
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06-16-2022 at 07:03 PM.
06-16-2022 at 07:03 PM.
I own this very same drive and bought it at $60-70 for my AMD 3700X rig I built back in 2019. And I got another similar LG drive I purchased way back in 2011 at $100 for an Intel 980X rig which is still functioning to this day.
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