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Do you people even realize that drives can be fixed when they age? Only for the most basic issues. The most concerning part is the blue laser since it, unlike a red burn laser, has a fixed life. The laser and focusing is intrinsic into the optical pickup unit. The optical pickup unit for most (read...

but wahat about those M-DISC then? do we get nowhere near the 1000-year disc-mark then with those? M-Discs are complicated by the fact that not all M-Discs are M-Discs. For actual M-Discs, yes, there is good evidence their doped SiO2 recording layer could be stable for centuries. That said, the pol...

besides media quality and UHD capability, is there a difference if i would burn a Bluray Disc with a Pioneer or with an LG say WH16NS58DUP> A lot does depend on media as you go on to surmise, but yes, Pioneers are generally the undisputed burn quality champions. Longevity is a complex topic, and ev...

Yeah, the updated firmware support is to enable LibreDrive and UHD support. Are you SURE about that? The announcement just says LibreDrive, it is silent about UHD. Pioneer's 211/212/213s don't recognize UHD without a firmware upgrade. Do you have outside knowledge that the announced capability incl...

the WH16NS60 link you shared amounts after shipping and taxes to around 170 euro, which i consider excessive at the moment. Wow. Shipping must be crazy. I got it for about $100CAD, shipped. NS55 flashed to NS60 That's a reasonable drive. As far as I can tell, an NS55 is basically identical to an NS...

what do you think of such an offer like this https://www.ebay.it/itm/156810626913?_t ... p_homepage It's a good drive. Essentially the same hardware as a BDR-S12EBK. However it doesn't have UHD firmware. It should work with MakeMKD for non-UHD discs. If the date on the photo is accurate, then it sh...

Some players (Roku for example) don't support Blu-Ray's raster subtitle format. I use MKV Subtitle Convertor to OCR them into text formats that my Roku does support. It is a little bit of a process to set up, as you need to also install Tesseract OCR and download language files for each language you...

shame on pioneer for that ultra-nazi 2023 encrypted firmware scandal! You have to realize as long as Pioneer was a member of the Blu-Ray Disc Association they had rules they had to follow to be compliant or they’d lose their licensing. And the BDA had more content provider members than hardware pro...

how could i have averted the risk? Knowing the drive and firmware you were putting on it is key. There is no way, unless you happen to geta drive with unencrypted firmware (more later), to back up the original firmware. So check. Double check. Triple check before that first flash. the drive was jus...

VLC works very well for me when I set it it use MakeMKV as the decryption engine. The menus work well. Even AACS and BD+. There is a setting right in MakeMKV to have it configure VLC for you.

The dump you made was of an encrypted firmware, so the actual original firmware is not in the dump . tar. What's in that dump are drive settings. Your original firmware is lost. I agree with others that suggest your blue laser failed. Recommend getting genuine WH16NS40, NS55 or NS60. You can find mo...

Just saw this on Ali Express: https://a.aliexpress.com/_m09DdZ9 The photo shows it as Pioneer BDR-S11JBK. Comes up for me at $112 CAD. Sticker shows 2018 manufacturing date which implies it's MakeMKV ready. There are also listings for new S13C-X's, though those are coming up at $600 CAD. NOTE: The v...

I don't know what you mean by half height drive?? All of the drives you mention are standard 5.25" internal desktop drives. All "standard" 5¼" drives you see now are half height. Read more about drive bay sized here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_bay trying to decide based...

In case anyone is looking for the link: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005159663807.html I was lucky and got an BDR-X13JBK about a week before Pioneer's announcement. If I had to do it all over again, though, I would either have a) got a BDR-S13*BK and use a third Vantec NexStar DX2 case (along...

My very recently ordered Verbatim 70102 drive turned out to still be a Pioneer UD03. These can be flashed to UD04 and MKV compatibility quite easily.