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Need assistance Asus BW-16D1HT

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 5:52 pm
by Fu2chN
Hi, I recently bought a BD player thinking I could easily patch it, but I ran into a little problem.
The chip is an MT1939 and I understood that it needed an MT1959 (Redfox forum).

I hope I misunderstood and that the MT1939 can also be patched.

Thank you for your help.

Re: Need assistance Asus BW-16D1HT

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 7:18 pm
by Woodstock
To do anything above Bluray, you need a drive that was manufactured after 2015; your drive was manufactured 2 years before that. And the MT1939 processor locks that in place.

You can read Bluray disks with it (no patching necessary), but NOT UHD.

Re: Need assistance Asus BW-16D1HT

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:24 pm
by Fu2chN
Ok, That is what I thought. The label on the reader indicates a manufacture in January 2022. :/

Re: Need assistance Asus BW-16D1HT

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 12:04 am
by dcoke22
Fu2chN wrote:
Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:24 pm
Ok, That is what I thought. The label on the reader indicates a manufacture in January 2022. :/
Either the sticker is a lie or someone found a bunch of old chips and decided to make 'new' drives out of them. If you can return the drive, you should.

Re: Need assistance Asus BW-16D1HT

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 1:15 am
by Billycar11
Fu2chN wrote:
Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:24 pm
Ok, That is what I thought. The label on the reader indicates a manufacture in January 2022. :/
Let's see this sticker curious if someone out there is faking these or if it's real

Re: Need assistance Asus BW-16D1HT

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 4:15 pm
by Fu2chN
Billycar11 wrote:
Fri Jan 20, 2023 1:15 am
Fu2chN wrote:
Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:24 pm
Ok, That is what I thought. The label on the reader indicates a manufacture in January 2022. :/
Let's see this sticker curious if someone out there is faking these or if it's real
Here they are.

Re: Need assistance Asus BW-16D1HT

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 4:36 pm
by Billycar11
Fu2chN wrote:
Fri Jan 20, 2023 4:15 pm
Billycar11 wrote:
Fri Jan 20, 2023 1:15 am
Fu2chN wrote:
Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:24 pm
Ok, That is what I thought. The label on the reader indicates a manufacture in January 2022. :/
Let's see this sticker curious if someone out there is faking these or if it's real
Here they are.
Hmm looks pretty real it the old style housing too compared to the LG WH16/14 XX wonder if they are going back to this because of the security flaws well may have to remove it from the list we will see in the coming weeks

Re: Need assistance Asus BW-16D1HT

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 9:11 pm
by Coopervid
Nahhhh. It's fraud.

Re: Need assistance Asus BW-16D1HT

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2023 5:54 am
by saturn2888
How do you know? I have an ASUS external drive that I bought from Micro Center. I'm curious how to tell a fraud vs a real one.

Re: Need assistance Asus BW-16D1HT

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:24 am
by Billycar11
saturn2888 wrote:
Thu Jan 26, 2023 5:54 am
How do you know? I have an ASUS external drive that I bought from Micro Center. I'm curious how to tell a fraud vs a real one.
It could also be a refurbished once from Asus I don't see why someone would fake these

Re: Need assistance Asus BW-16D1HT

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:36 pm
by Fu2chN
I'm coming back to you to tell you that everyone is ok now.

Re: Need assistance Asus BW-16D1HT

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:46 pm
by Coopervid
How?

Re: Need assistance Asus BW-16D1HT

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2023 5:29 pm
by Fu2chN
I was able to proceed to a return even if the seller didn't want him. I bought another one and the chip was good, the patch was applied without a problem.

Re: Need assistance Asus BW-16D1HT

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2023 7:12 pm
by Coopervid
You have to be lucky once in a while. I would have believed you never see the money for this drive again.