Ultimate UHD Drives Flashing Guide Updated 2025

[Toscaclarinet]

Thanks for the info. Sounds like flashing it twice is the best of both worlds.

Will the SDFtool Flasher (v1.3.6) handle the Flashing to BW-16D1HT 3.02 if I can find it? Or would WH16NS60 1.00 add more capability /stability instead?

I just found "All You Need Firmware Pack (MartyMcNuts)" from 2023. It has DE_ASUS_BW-16D1HT_3.02.bin and DE_LG_WH16NS60_1.00.bin. Are they suitable?

Perhaps you are not up on PowerDVD 24 Ultra? They claim 4K Ultra HD with Hardware Acceleration: Intel 3rd generation Core i5. They claim 8K Video Playback with an Intel 7th Generation Core i7 (Kaby Lake) with HD (UHD) Graphics 630.

https://www.cyberlink.com/products/powe ... en_US.html

Thanks again.

Regards,

Jim

Either of those firmware files will work. The WH16NS60 1.00, being official UHD drive firmware, will also remove the sleep bug but you may have trouble if you want to burn discs. If you don't care about writing disccs and are only interested in ripping discs (like 99% of us!) it will be fine.

Don't forget to flash the drive to either BW-16D1HT 3.10-MK (or WH16NS60 1.02-MK) first to remove the existing firmware encryption.

So UHD playback is still in PowerDVD but only for those older Intel CPU's from about 6-7 years ago?!? A Lot of folk use more modern PC's nowadays! I did read somewhere a while back that UHD playback was removed from PowerDVD and only works in an older version of it.

Marty, I think PowerDVD is being misleading in what they are advertising. New versions of PowerDVD will not play UHD discs directly. Older versions of 22 played UHD discs via the "official" SGX method (8th-10th gen Intel cpus), but patches towards the end of 2023 removed capability, and now unless you have a system already set up and don't update PowerDVD, change BIOS or change CPU there is no way of activating official UHD playback due to the Intel servers being terminated. The UHD playback advertised seems to refer to 4k files rather than discs, and that is not CPU specific.

[MartyMcNuts]

Thanks for the info. Sounds like flashing it twice is the best of both worlds.

Will the SDFtool Flasher (v1.3.6) handle the Flashing to BW-16D1HT 3.02 if I can find it? Or would WH16NS60 1.00 add more capability /stability instead?

I just found "All You Need Firmware Pack (MartyMcNuts)" from 2023. It has DE_ASUS_BW-16D1HT_3.02.bin and DE_LG_WH16NS60_1.00.bin. Are they suitable?

Perhaps you are not up on PowerDVD 24 Ultra? They claim 4K Ultra HD with Hardware Acceleration: Intel 3rd generation Core i5. They claim 8K Video Playback with an Intel 7th Generation Core i7 (Kaby Lake) with HD (UHD) Graphics 630.

https://www.cyberlink.com/products/powe ... en_US.html

Thanks again.

Regards,

Jim

Either of those firmware files will work. The WH16NS60 1.00, being official UHD drive firmware, will also remove the sleep bug but you may have trouble if you want to burn discs. If you don't care about writing disccs and are only interested in ripping discs (like 99% of us!) it will be fine.

Don't forget to flash the drive to either BW-16D1HT 3.10-MK (or WH16NS60 1.02-MK) first to remove the existing firmware encryption.

So UHD playback is still in PowerDVD but only for those older Intel CPU's from about 6-7 years ago?!? A Lot of folk use more modern PC's nowadays! I did read somewhere a while back that UHD playback was removed from PowerDVD and only works in an older version of it.

Marty, I think PowerDVD is being misleading in what they are advertising. New versions of PowerDVD will not play UHD discs directly. Older versions of 22 played UHD discs via the "official" SGX method (8th-10th gen Intel cpus), but patches towards the end of 2023 removed capability, and now unless you have a system already set up and don't update PowerDVD, change BIOS or change CPU there is no way of activating official UHD playback due to the Intel servers being terminated. The UHD playback advertised seems to refer to 4k files rather than discs, and that is not CPU specific.

Ah, ok, 4k files. That makes sense. I thought they removed UHD disc playback a few versions ago!