expired49studebaker posted Feb 03, 2024 12:18 AM
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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.
Thanks to community member 49studebaker for sharing this deal.
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Thanks to community member 49studebaker for sharing this deal.
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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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- 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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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:
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.
- About this store:
- Don't have Amazon Prime? Students can get a free 6-Month Amazon Prime trial with free 2-day shipping, unlimited video streaming & more.
- If you're not a student, there's also a free 1-Month Amazon Prime trial available.
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Model: LG Electronics 14x SATA Blu-ray Internal Rewriter without Software, Black (WH14NS40)
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In my experience, optical drives of all types do tend to degrade over time, especially when in a PC. It may simply be due to dust getting into the components. I'll also note that I seem to have burned out the Blu-Ray laser in one of these drives. All was fine, then it just stopped reading, right in the middle of a disc. The drive would never recognize another Blu-Ray again. It still works fine for CDs and DVDs. It wasn't that old but did have a fair bit of use.
Technically, Blu-Rays are already compressed with AVC (H.264) or VC-1 at a high bitrate. UHD discs are compressed with HEVC (H.265). But yes, you can use something like Handbrake to further compress them.
There's not much point to uncompressed audio. Something like FLAC gives you compression, while still remaining lossless. FLAC isn't that hard to find.
Unless things have changed, MakeMKV isn't free either (though I still prefer it). The trial version of MakeMKV is free and can be perpetually updated for ripping DVDs but only temporarily allows free ripping of Blu-Rays.
Theres a trend nowadays to abandon streaming & subscription services and go back to physical media. Esp w/ video games nowadays. Since the big statement from Ubisoft a few weeks ago about their new platform and telling gamers to get comfortable w/ not owning games so that platforms like theirs can succeed. Same w/ streaming services, content comes and goes all the time on Netflix, Hulu, Crunchyroll, etc... Owning media also prevents you from getting locked into platform exclusives and all that. I think companies pulled a trigger when they stopped selling Blu-ray media recently and its caused a lot of backlash and uproar in communities which are now responding more positively toward media ownership. Arguably aggressively removing physical media from major outlets brought life back into the market for it.
It is convenient to download games/movies. The downside to digital purchases is that you can't resale. Physical media can be resold. Don't like the game/movie or want to sell and use the cash to buy other movies/games, you can't do that with digital.
Content can be removed from purchased games. Steam has removed licensed content from games, because the licensing agreement expired. If you legally purchased it, the licensed content should not be removed. New purchases, that's fine. They can't remove licensed content from physical media.
If I want the movie to be available on plex, I need to use make MKV to create the MKV file. Otherwise, I just leave it as an ISO and watch it on my media PC using KODI. I don't own enough 4K movies to get this player and rip them, but for someone with a large 4K collection I could see this drive being worth it. Of course, there's also renting them and ripping them, but it's just too much hassle to me to get a movie I didn't pay for. For me at least, having to go on the internet and find out which stream is the correct one is too much of a hassle for the process. But obviously, for many people it's worth the trouble.
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.
These quirks also show up on the VHS side of things — sometimes my Panasonic VHS deck plays a particular tape best for recording, other times I need my Mitsubishi, JVC, or a random el cheapo. Same goes for other equipment in the signal chain.
One more thing is that I do still burn CDs occasionally, because I drive a couple of older vehicles where that's still the best option. Other than that, I'm all in on forgoing external media entirely, and keeping to high-quality digital copies of everything.
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this drive has been a lifesaver. Been on a mission to rip my collection of 1200 movie discs and dump it on a NAS and stream to my Zidoo box. Then next mission will be to sell the discs on eBay lol.
One thing I'll add is that, don't discount the time and effort involved. There's a cost in that too.
That said, if it works for you, great! I like a combination and that works for me. Some prefer just streaming. I'm just glad there are options, and I hope those options stick around longer. In particular, I like 3D blu-rays. Those are more or less not made anymore.
If I want the movie to be available on plex, I need to use make MKV to create the MKV file. Otherwise, I just leave it as an ISO and watch it on my media PC using KODI. I don't own enough 4K movies to get this player and rip them, but for someone with a large 4K collection I could see this drive being worth it. Of course, there's also renting them and ripping them, but it's just too much hassle to me to get a movie I didn't pay for. For me at least, having to go on the internet and find out which stream is the correct one is too much of a hassle for the process. But obviously, for many people it's worth the trouble.
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.
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