Ultimate UHD Drives Flashing Guide Updated 2023

[daave]

Thank you Cooper. I have a laptop and I am buying a LG WH16NS40, what kind of adapter I need in order to use it?

[Coopervid]

See page 1 for enclosure and adapter options.

[Billycar11]

Forget SGX. Rip the movie with either an official or friendly drive. Play with VLC or MPC.

man i wish people would forget SGX everyday i get an email telling me they need SGX to rip/play UHDS.
the implementation was so flawed no intel boards had native HDMI 2.0 from 7th-10th gen so that means no HDR
there were boards that used the cpus DisplayPort link to convert to HDMI 2.0 but then you miss out on lossless audio and bit streaming it to your AVR.
and you have to have a specific version of windows 10 for the stupid powerdvd sgx test to pass all new version of 10 it would fail even if sgx was working in the intel test app

[SamuriHL]

There are some good things that came out of sgx. Because it's so flawed a group managed to extract powerdvd's host cert and use it to play uhds in Linux in vlc. Lol

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[daave]

LG WH16NS40 vs Asus BW-16D1HT which one is better? And why?

[Coopervid]

They are technically the same and you can flash to make it either an ASUS or a LG. Any reason you don't consider a Pioneer?

[daave]

They are technically the same and you can flash to make it either an ASUS or a LG. Any reason you don't consider a Pioneer?

I should check if they are available in Italy. Anyway, Alex Coluzzi told me that the LG is not so good and it will not last a lot.
The Pioneer are those on the 1st page?

[liamtoh1]

They are technically the same and you can flash to make it either an ASUS or a LG. Any reason you don't consider a Pioneer?

I should check if they are available in Italy. Anyway, Alex Coluzzi told me that the LG is not so good and it will not last a lot.
The Pioneer are those on the 1st page?

1 drive missing from the 1st page for Pioneer is BDR-XD08UMB-S which also works out of the box (without any firmware updates) with MakeMKV

[daave]

Guys, I have a problem. My LG WH16NS40 has arrived today but my Lenovo laptop with Win11 doesn't recognize it. I am using this as adapter https://www.amazon.it/Inateck-Adattator ... b_title_ce

What should I do?

[Coopervid]

Get another one. Yours is only for SSD and HDD.

https://www.amazon.de/Unitek-Y-3324-Br% ... C94&sr=8-1

[daave]

Get another one. Yours is only for SSD and HDD.

https://www.amazon.de/Unitek-Y-3324-Br% ... C94&sr=8-1

The disk player works, it means the tray is working but it doesn't get recognized by win11.
So you think that is just the adapter?

[Coopervid]

Yes. And I had told you to check the adapter on page one which is the same I posted the Amazon link for. Yours doesn't work with optical drives.

[daave]

Yes. And I had told you to check the adapter on page one which is the same I posted the Amazon link for. Yours doesn't work with optical drives.

Bought it. Waiting for delivery.
Thank you

[asmcom]

They are technically the same and you can flash to make it either an ASUS or a LG. Any reason you don't consider a Pioneer?

I should check if they are available in Italy. Anyway, Alex Coluzzi told me that the LG is not so good and it will not last a lot.
The Pioneer are those on the 1st page?

I can supply you Pioneer drives to Italy with no import duty. Dispatched from Ireland.

viewtopic.php?t=19387

Asmcom

[DavidO]

no point flashing it but is the nb52 1.03 not out there? i have it if not
also fyi the pioneer is slower just so you know 4x vs 6x about 30 mins extra on a bd100

Any chance you can upload the NB52 "DE" firmware? The LG website only goes to NB50.