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expired49studebaker posted Feb 03, 2024 12:18 AM

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

Thanks to community member 49studebaker 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 SubZero5 | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This price matches the previous +133 FP deal.
    • Please see original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
  • About this product:
    • Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars w/ over 4,000 Amazon customer reviews.
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jkilez
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In case anyone is interested, this is a UHD friendly drive, and with a firmware downgrade it can read 4K discs.
William0722
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For people like myself that are tired of paying for too many streaming services but like the convenience of opening an app to play my media, I use this drive to rip my DVDs, Blu Rays, and UHD Blu ray and store the media on a NAS to watch on JellyFin.
49studebaker
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Adjusted for inflation, $35 in 2016 is $44 in 2024. The current price is not to far away from the all time lowest price.

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Ih8reb8sFeb 03, 2024 07:23 PM
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Quote from Monkey_Farmer :
This is the way. Even the though the streaming services advertise 4K, they cannot beat UHD for video and audio. Plus, you're not at risk of a service pulling content when you roll your own, which is easier and cheaper than ever.
Exactly. It's amazing that every single time a thread is posted about a Blu-ray player or 4K player, you have to justify to the trolls why you still want to use disk media. It's amazing that people can't accept that the world has different people with different use cases.
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Arctic601Feb 03, 2024 07:25 PM
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Quote from William0722 :
For people like myself that are tired of paying for too many streaming services but like the convenience of opening an app to play my media, I use this drive to rip my DVDs, Blu Rays, and UHD Blu ray and store the media on a NAS to watch on JellyFin.
How do you copy a movie though? I know CD's were easy back in the day, but I thought these weren't easily copied.
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Feb 03, 2024 07:29 PM
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seffersFeb 03, 2024 07:29 PM
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Quote from questthresh :
Curious. If the actual media isn't owned. Could one go to library and rent their physical copies to burn. Does it ruin it for the next person?
Yes that would work, libraries, Red Box rentals. I've been doing so for many years.
Feb 03, 2024 07:29 PM
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sanguinFeb 03, 2024 07:29 PM
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Quote from Ih8reb8s :
Exactly. It's amazing that every single time a thread is posted about a Blu-ray player or 4K player, you have to justify to the trolls why you still want to use disk media. It's amazing that people can't accept that the world has different people with different use cases.
We accept it... We just want to know why, so that it gives the rest of us an idea of how we can justify (to ourselves or our partner) the reason for making another SD purchase :-)
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Feb 03, 2024 07:33 PM
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HyraxFeb 03, 2024 07:33 PM
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Quote from drronlech :
Burning CDs for dinosaur cars.
Uncompressed audio is hard to find
Feb 03, 2024 07:42 PM
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VioletCaption5716Feb 03, 2024 07:42 PM
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Quote from Kfoster79 :
Same drive I use to rip UHD discs. Flash the firmware and you are good to go.
Which firmware? Where?
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gamingdroidFeb 03, 2024 07:42 PM
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Quote from sanguin :
We accept it... We just want to know why, so that it gives the rest of us an idea of how we can justify (to ourselves or our partner) the reason for making another SD purchase :-)
The only reason you needed to justify it is "you're going broke trying to save money, okay hun?".

Quote from TheEdge :
Quality? Yes. Features? That's up to you. With MakeMKV, you can tell it which chapters/audio tracks/caption languages to include... and it rolls them all up into a single file. It's been a long time since I used MakeMKV, but that's how I remember it.

Typically, most people rip all of the chapters from the main program... their audio flavors of choice (to cover your bacon, typically all of them). Bonus features, etc. are typically ripped as a separate file.

If one wanted to, they could take the MKV and then run it through Handbrake or other programs to apply H264/H265 compression (that, if done correctly and at high bitrate is hardly noticeable to most people), but if you want the most pristine copy, you would just take your MKV file and leave it.
So does it retain like the menu and stuff, or are you only accessing specific content via tracks?
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TimlessFeb 03, 2024 07:50 PM
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Quote from TheEdge :
More recent versions of the firmware prevent programs like Make MKV from decrypting the disc for creating backup images/files.
That's hilarious. What do they think people are doing with these drives in 2024?
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yoFuFeb 03, 2024 07:54 PM
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Beware Linux users, playback of Bluray DRM movies isn't possible with out commercial software. Some of this software isn't a 1 step solution. Ref: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/...th-makemkv Specifies 1 product. I've used it, but never for Bluray.

The big media companies think that all Linux users are pirates, regardless of the truth.

I've never used any Bluray disks and consider the design broken. Now, m-disc is intriguing for long term storage that should last 50 yrs, unlike other self-burned bluray or DVD optical storage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-disc
Feb 03, 2024 07:56 PM
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rsimms3Feb 03, 2024 07:56 PM
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I bought the Amazon Basics external UHD burner last year for $75 and ripped my movie collection, this would have been a no brainier for me at the time. Internal is the way to go. MakeMKV is free for ripping ISO files for all discs.
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EdgarVeronaFeb 03, 2024 08:01 PM
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Quote from DataJager :
I just want to know, who is buying this in 2024, and what are you doing with it?
Not trolling, just honestly curious about physical media.
Maybe you're backing up home movies, maybe you have years of tv shows you want to store on blu-ray, I don't know.
I bought a UHD blu ray player a few years ago because I realized that I don't have a huge motivation to constantly watch new movies or listen to new music, but I was hanging on and paying monthly for streaming services just to listen to the same shit I've been listening to for the last 20 years. Mostly music, but on the rare occasion when I want to bother watching TV or movies I usually go back to old favorites.

I realized that I could buy basically the entire collection of everything I listen to via the used CD and DVD/Blu Ray market for about the cost of a full year of subscription services. So 3 years ago or so I did just that, and then ripped them all and now I'm perfectly content with a Plex server. I haven't had streaming services in the past 3 years and I don't miss it at all, not even for a moment. I was sick of monthly subscriptions for shit that I could just go buy outright.
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armstshoFeb 03, 2024 08:08 PM
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Quote from degausser :
Is there a way to convert this into a USB-connected drive for external use, or is it only usable as an internal drive?
OWC Mercury Pro 5.25" Optical Drive External Enclosure (NO Drive) https://a.co/d/24NoFnq
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Feb 03, 2024 08:09 PM
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SiennaHeat7685Feb 03, 2024 08:09 PM
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Quote from gamingdroid :
Are you ripping them as original source, or re-encoding them?

Also, the drive is it a recent drive or do you have to get an older drive with older firmware?
Brand new drive, got maybe a month or 2 ago and flashed to the 1.05MK firmware. I'm using MakeMKV, so it's ripping the raw digital video off the disc and losslessly converting it to an MKV
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babygdavFeb 03, 2024 08:19 PM
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Quote from seiromem :
Which software do you recommend for ripping vcd?
That's super old. You'd have to see if the data files appear in the drive letter when the vcd is mounted. I vaguely recall if there's files, you can copy them to the desktop. Convert as needed to mpg file format using tools from videohelp.com if vlc can not directly play them.

https://forum.videohelp.com/threa...dat-to-mpg

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Quote from TabascoJoe :
Are you sure that is the same adapter you use? I question it providing enough power. Does the adapter you have use external power.
A review from 2 years ago for that adapter says it does not work with the WH16NS60 drive, so it probably does not work for this one either. I also am in need of an adapter or enclosure that works, since I switched to a case without 5.25" bays.

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