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I have sent it back, as it was supposed to work straight out of the box, it didn't! I spent too long messing with settings in VLC Media but could not get it to read from the drive.

Thanks for your help, I suspected as much!

Can get same drive on Amazon new at around £70, presume that will be able to implement flash for UHD?

Here is the info related to the blu ray drive.

Drive Information
OS device name: F:
Manufacturer: HL-DT-ST
Product: BD-RE BH16NS40
Revision: 1.03
Serial number: [redacted]
Firmware date: 2114-03-26 11:15
Bus encryption flags: 17

LibreDrive Information
Status: Enabled
Drive platform: MT1939 ...

I recently bought an external Verbatim drive to hopefully play 4k blu ray discs, it didn't work. I have read various threads/posts that discuss friendly UHD drives, and even offer lists!
However having read through various posts it suddenly occurred to me that my current blu ray reader/writer might ...