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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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  • 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

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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.
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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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Feb 05, 2024 06:54 PM
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Ih8reb8sFeb 05, 2024 06:54 PM
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Quote from gamingdroid :
So AnyDVD will rip UHD/4k Blu-rays as ISO?
Any DVD is needed to remove the copy protection before the iso can be created. I use image burn to create an ISO from the disc. I'm not aware of a way to create the ISO without using any DVD to break the protection first. I wish I did, any DVD is not cheap and I already bought a lifetime license before they reorganized the company and screwed us all. I keep calling it any dvd, but it's actually now called redfox. The company that created it, Slysoft, reorganized the company and now call it red fox, and those of us who bought a lifetime license to any DVD got shafted.
Feb 05, 2024 06:56 PM
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Ih8reb8sFeb 05, 2024 06:56 PM
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Quote from Ih8reb8s :
Any DVD is needed to remove the copy protection before the iso can be created. I use image burn to create an ISO from the disc. I'm not aware of a way to create the ISO without using any DVD to break the protection first. I wish I did, any DVD is not cheap and I already bought a lifetime license before they reorganized the company and screwed us all. I keep calling it any dvd, but it's actually now called redfox. The company that created it, Slysoft, reorganized the company and now call it red fox, and those of us who bought a lifetime license to any DVD got shafted.
I am assuming it will do the same for 4K discs. I don't own a 4K Drive so I haven't tried that yet. The process I'm describing works with Blu-rays and DVD, and I assume 4K discs as well.
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av911Feb 05, 2024 07:12 PM
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Quote from Scaevola :
Why must it be downgraded to support 4k?!

also link to how-to plz
Read the thread.
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gamingdroidFeb 05, 2024 08:00 PM
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Quote from Ih8reb8s :
Any DVD is needed to remove the copy protection before the iso can be created. I use image burn to create an ISO from the disc. I'm not aware of a way to create the ISO without using any DVD to break the protection first. I wish I did, any DVD is not cheap and I already bought a lifetime license before they reorganized the company and screwed us all. I keep calling it any dvd, but it's actually now called redfox. The company that created it, Slysoft, reorganized the company and now call it red fox, and those of us who bought a lifetime license to any DVD got shafted.
I'm checking the website and it seems to show AnyDVD as the software name. I guess the developer is called RedFox now. Do you know if they hold any special deals/sales on their software?

Looking at their offering, it seems like getting the entire lifetime package makes the most sense. However, it's 260 EUR, which is a lot even in USD currency.
Feb 05, 2024 08:05 PM
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valarinFeb 05, 2024 08:05 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.
backup family pictures and movies. Then you put them in a fire safe and mail backups to family.
Feb 05, 2024 08:23 PM
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Nintendo1474Feb 05, 2024 08:23 PM
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Quote from Ih8reb8s :
Any DVD is needed to remove the copy protection before the iso can be created. I use image burn to create an ISO from the disc. I'm not aware of a way to create the ISO without using any DVD to break the protection first. I wish I did, any DVD is not cheap and I already bought a lifetime license before they reorganized the company and screwed us all. I keep calling it any dvd, but it's actually now called redfox. The company that created it, Slysoft, reorganized the company and now call it red fox, and those of us who bought a lifetime license to any DVD got shafted.
MakeMKV is free, and even has some built in firmware modifications to allow for ripping on some drives that otherwise wouldn't allow it. They also have a forum with lists of supported disk drives and instructions on how to flash firmware to different drives. DVD ripping will always be free, and the rest of the features will be free as long as it's in beta (which has been years now). I'm sorry you got tricked into paying money, that sucks.

https://www.makemkv.com/
Last edited by Nintendo1474 February 5, 2024 at 12:29 PM.

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Feb 05, 2024 08:41 PM
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JamaalJohnsonFeb 05, 2024 08:41 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 don't know, but a long time ago, I ended up buying a portable and that meets my needs on any system on the rare occasions that I need it.
Feb 05, 2024 08:53 PM
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EdgarVeronaFeb 05, 2024 08:53 PM
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Quote from gamingdroid :
Thank you for sharing all that information! 😁



That's good to know. I just ordered a drive. Thank you!!!



How ignorant are you?

Optical media takes as much space depending on how many you have and has a bigger or smaller effect depending on the size of your home.



Sure. If you're low consumption, has unique taste or just don't like variety, then maybe subscription service isn't for you. However, I find so much interesting content on Netflix, that it is rare I go elsewhere for content with exception of an occasional TV show, which I just wait until the years go by and the content is mostly fully available. Then I rotate service and enjoy content back to back.

What's often missing on subscription services is the extra content. Sometimes even purchased content on streaming site are missing it.

Basically, I'm not averse to streaming or subscription service, and for very specific content that is important I'll buy it. Now I will probably buy it more and more used just to rip the content. Stop the crazy madness of collecting and cluttering up my home.

Overall, I feel like people are seemingly fighting on one side or another, passing their own judgment. The way I see it is, they each have their advantages AND disadvantages. Pick whatever works for you.
Yeah, totally fair and understandable perspective given your desire for new content. Can't blame you for using the subscription service, go for it!

If it helps for folks worrying about clutter, what I've been doing is - once I burn them - I get rid of the original cases and store them in a more compressed envelope storage in a box, just in case I ever need to prove my ownership of it for some legal reason or if I ever need to re-burn it. It's nice and compact, I just shove the box of CDs/DVDs into one of my closets and don't look at it except to add more to it. Definitely not clutter free, but a bit more manageable than having the large cases!
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Ih8reb8sFeb 05, 2024 08:58 PM
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Quote from Nintendo1474 :
MakeMKV is free, and even has some built in firmware modifications to allow for ripping on some drives that otherwise wouldn't allow it. They also have a forum with lists of supported disk drives and instructions on how to flash firmware to different drives. DVD ripping will always be free, and the rest of the features will be free as long as it's in beta (which has been years now). I'm sorry you got tricked into paying money, that sucks.

https://www.makemkv.com/
Thanks, I didn't really get tricked into buying it. This was years ago, and back then I was aware of Makemkv but wan't creating mkv files. I would just rip to ISO and watch with Kodi (XBMC). This was in a home theater room and I didn't care about streaming it to other tvs or tablets, etc. So Kodi reading ISOs was everything I needed. The only thing that sucks is this company selling Anydvd lifetime licenses, and then restructuring (I believe because of lawsuits or something, the company is in Europe) and then selling the exact same software under a new name without honoring the lifetime licenses. But how mad can I really be, that a company developing software that they know is being overwhelming used to illegally copy movies decided to pull something with its customers? It's actually kind of ironic.
This is an example of what I'm talking about with many of us having different use cases. If I didn't have a movie collection and a history of ripping movies, I might be one of the people who don't understand why anyone would need this blu-ray drive. I might think it's a silly waste on old technology, and all this talk about ripping movies and buying a NAS to serve them is all a big waste of time. But those of us with a little background on the history often have reasons for wanting this, and our use case makes perfect sense to us.
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gamingdroidFeb 05, 2024 09:29 PM
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Quote from EdgarVerona :
Yeah, totally fair and understandable perspective given your desire for new content. Can't blame you for using the subscription service, go for it!

If it helps for folks worrying about clutter, what I've been doing is - once I burn them - I get rid of the original cases and store them in a more compressed envelope storage in a box, just in case I ever need to prove my ownership of it for some legal reason or if I ever need to re-burn it. It's nice and compact, I just shove the box of CDs/DVDs into one of my closets and don't look at it except to add more to it. Definitely not clutter free, but a bit more manageable than having the large cases!
I just can't bring myself to throw out the cases for the discs. So what I end up doing is just like you store them in a disc storage case of some sort, and then end up boxing all the cases and store them. I'm working my way towards being okay with letting it go. I'm not a hoarder, but for me it's so hard, so I can totally see what a hoarder goes through.
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EdgarVeronaFeb 05, 2024 09:36 PM
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Quote from gamingdroid :
I just can't bring myself to throw out the cases for the discs. So what I end up doing is just like you store them in a disc storage case of some sort, and then end up boxing all the cases and store them. I'm working my way towards being okay with letting it go. I'm not a hoarder, but for me it's so hard, so I can totally see what a hoarder goes through.
I absolutely, 100% understand that - I felt a nervous twitch the first time I did it. It was somewhat freeing once I did the first time though - it was like pulling the bandaid off!
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Bought this in Feb 2021 for $52.50 on Amazon, that was the normal price at the time. It's been great, I've used it to back up all of my Blu Rays using MakeMKV and leaving them as is uncompressed to add to my Plex server. It's a great drive!
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BerMM2Feb 06, 2024 04:58 AM
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Quote from IndigoSnail848 :
Thank you!

So to use this on Win10 / 11, is it plug and play, or do I need a specific driver?

My understanding was that the installing this as is, Win 10 would not recognize the drive.

Any specifics would be appreciated before I pull the trigger. All I have found online are old posts complaining that after upgrading to Win10 / 11, their drive became unrecognizable by windows.

Thanks again and sorry to bug you - it is just you are the only person I have heard from saying that they have this working on Win10 and ripping BR and UHD.

Thank you!
I've never needed a driver for it. UHD capability requires a firmware flash [makemkv.com]. I have not yet tried ripping a 3D disc. The instructions I've found for ripping 3D discs had a lot more steps than I've wanted to tackle, but I've done DVD, bluray, and bluray UHD without issue on Windows 10 and 11.

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scissorfightFeb 06, 2024 10:37 AM
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All of the extra features are a very good reason to use physical media. If Netflix included stuff like that, then maybe they'd be obsolete.

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