blu ray

Forum discussion tagged with blu ray.
  1. mdevellis

    Question Asus USB Blu-ray reader/writer won't recognize empty BD-R disc

    I'm trying to burn some MP4's to a disc(completely new to doing this btw) and the bluray drive I have wont recognize the empty blu ray I'm using. It just shows that there's no disc inserted. I've tried it on my Windows 11 desktop, my Windows laptop and my Ubuntu desktop same issue across all...
  2. G

    [SOLVED] Read and Write speeds of BD-RE discs?

    I'm a little confused about how read/write speeds work when specified on the disc's packaging. Pretty much every typical BD-RE disc has a "2x speed" as specified on their packaging. Is that solely the write speed or both the read/write speed? And if it's solely just the write speed being...
  3. P

    [SOLVED] DVD Drive Read Speeds

    I have a 10 year old blu ray drive (Samsung SH-B123L) that reads discs typically at a 10x speed in one spot on my computer. On the second spot, I replaced a DVD-RW drive (that read on average at around a 5x speed) with a new Blu Ray RW drive (LG WH14NS40) that, in theory, should be able to read...
  4. Z

    [SOLVED] Does a blu-ray reader perform better at recovering faulty CD-R / DVD-R's?

    I have some old, partially unreadable CR-R's and DVD-R's. I tried many CD and DVD drives using recovery tools like isopuzzle and so on, but unfortunately there are still missing sectors mostly at the end of the volume. Back in the days I verified all of them after burning, but I didn't foresee...
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    [SOLVED] Problems with LG BD-ROM drive

    Hello, I have been using an LG UH12NS30 BD-ROM internal drive since the end of 2014. It seemed to work fine until about a year ago, when it stopped playing Blu-Ray discs. I opened the unit up and tried cleaning the lenses with rubbing alcohol on a q-tip, but it didn't seem to help...