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Is anyone selling drives with the right firmware in the Uk?

I just bought a drive from Ebuyer with a UHD unfriendly version of firmware 3.02. Unfortunately, I don't have a spare old PC to downgrade the firmware.

Can anyone in the UK provide a firmware downgrade service?

If you mean an Asus drive with firmware 1.xx, then you need to do some more reading/research:

http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=17301&p=61787&hilit=Asus+2015#p61787

Again, that scenario already discussed and attempted as well.
Damn! Looks like my new drive will be going straight ...

This issue has already been discussed across multiple threads for some time. Including the link I provided in my post above.

Another example:

http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=17313&p=61880&hilit=asus+3.02#p61880
Thanks very much for that st4evr. I had read around a bit and ...

I have just received a brand new Asus BW-16D1HT drive. According to Makemkv it has firmware 3.02.
I saved the hash keys file from here (http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fi ... 8006246024) in my Makemkv data directory.

However, which ever UHD disk I try all I get is "Loading..." for about 10 ...