LG Electronics 8X Blu-ray SATA Writer Drive WH08LS20 (Black)

	Write: BD-R 8X, BD-R DL 4X, BD-RW 2X, DVD+R 16X, DVD+R DL 4X, DVD-R DL 4X, DVD-R 16X, DVD RAM 5X, DVD+RW 8X, DVD-RW 6X, CD-R 40X, CD-RW 24X. Power 2 Go Software & user manual. Read: BD 8X, DVD 16X, CD 40X.

	Product Description: LG Electronics WH08LS20 8X Blu-ray SATA Writer Drive, RBOX (Black) with Software

• Memorex 32020013358 25GB 4X Write-Once BD-R Blu-ray Discs (15pk Spindle)
• Verbatim 97090 25 GB 2x Blu-ray Single-Layer Recordable Disc BD-R LTH (Low to High), 20-Disc Spindle
• Verbatim 96769 25 GB 4x Blu-ray Single-Layer Recordable Disc BD-R , 10-Disc Spindle
• Corsair TR3X6G1600C8D Dominator 6 GB 3 x 2 GB PC3-12800 1600MHz 240-Pin DDR3 Core i7 Memory Kit
• ASUS P6X58D Premium - LGA 1366 - X58 - DDR3 - USB 3.0 SATA 6 Gb/s - ATX Motherboard

Rating: - Great blu-ray player! Terrible software updates
By J. Egert (Grand Island, FL)
This blu-ray player works great with the included cyber blu-ray player software. The only complaint I have is how hard it is to find updated software/drivers/firmware for this unit. LG should have made this easier. You actually have to search hard to find this model on the LG site at all!

Rating: - awesome
By Jason L. Taylor ()
very easy to install and easy to use and I am very happy with it

Rating: - Burner works great
By Eric Allen ()
Got this burner to burn our wedding video and honeymoon video from our camcorder. The burner worked great and good price!

Rating: - Fantastic Blu-Ray burner!
By William Ludwig (Tucson, AZ United States)
This burner was easy to install, and worked perfectly right out of the box. I wouldn\'t recommend the included software for burning -- ImgBurn works MUCH better and is easier to use -- plus, it\'s free.

Rating: - Good, but ...
By SM (USA)
I\'ve had this drive for two months now on a Windows 7 64-bit. Worked beautifully for laying blu-ray disks. (Haven\'t tried burning BD.) However I did a firmware update (that the LG software suggested and did automatically) and now the eject button doesn\'t open the tray. Windows \"My Computer\" doesn\'t even have it as part of the installed devices.

So what do I say? As an old Mac user this is all new to me; but I hear that this type of thing is par for the course in Windows.

If I find a solution (which I sure hope since I can\'t play any blu-ray right now) I\'ll post it.

The included software from Cyberlink isn\'t much to write home about. Although you can do the basic things with it.

Update on firmware travails: Spoke to LG. Turns out their R&D knew that the firmware that they had pushed was bad and could make the drive unusable. But what kind of idiotic organization keeps pushing it after they know it\'s bad?! Aaaargh. At least they were decent enough to let me exchange.