Can't rip (or even read) "The Hunger Games: Catching fire"

[VarHD]

It's been more than 1.5 years since I started this thread. Meanwhile, I bought another new drive, the LG BU40N which is indeed fantastic, as everyone here says, yet even it wouldn't read those two 3-layered discs, that is - the two copies of "Catching Fire" I bought back then.

Recently Zavvi had a lot of discounts for the holidays and Black Friday, one of them included the UHD Catching Fire UK release so I quad-dipped and bought it and... it works! I'm ripping it right now, didn't even have to use the LG drive, even my old ASUS can rip it so the epilogue of the story is... 3-layered discs really suck so if you ever encounter a disc that none of your drives can rip and cleaning doesn't help, you might just have a bad disc. It really is a thing.

This never happened to me before. Even though I had a few other "difficult" tripple-layer releases, they all worked eventually after a few tries or reboots. This movie was the only one where only 1 out of 3 discs worked and the 4th only worked because it was a different lower quality 2-layer release.

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It's been more than 1.5 years since I started this thread. Meanwhile, I bought another new drive, the LG BU40N which is indeed fantastic, as everyone here says, yet even it wouldn't read those two 3-layered discs, that is - the two copies of "Catching Fire" I bought back then.

Recently Zavvi had a lot of discounts for the holidays and Black Friday, one of them included the UHD Catching Fire UK release so I quad-dipped and bought it and... it works! I'm ripping it right now, didn't even have to use the LG drive, even my old ASUS can rip it so the epilogue of the story is... 3-layered discs really suck so if you ever encounter a disc that none of your drives can rip and cleaning doesn't help, you might just have a bad disc. It really is a thing.

This never happened to me before. Even though I had a few other "difficult" tripple-layer releases, they all worked eventually after a few tries or reboots. This movie was the only one where only 1 out of 3 discs worked and the 4th only worked because it was a different lower quality 2-layer release.

Just curious if the LG BU40N is the "best" drive for tricky 4k discs? I have the ASUS because it was cross compatible with AnyDVD and MakeMKV, but fighting with too many discs. Try to decide if its worth getting the LG or a different drive?

Also, do you know if there is a specific build or revision of the drive that works with specific firmware versions?

TIA.

[Billycar11]

It's been more than 1.5 years since I started this thread. Meanwhile, I bought another new drive, the LG BU40N which is indeed fantastic, as everyone here says, yet even it wouldn't read those two 3-layered discs, that is - the two copies of "Catching Fire" I bought back then.

Recently Zavvi had a lot of discounts for the holidays and Black Friday, one of them included the UHD Catching Fire UK release so I quad-dipped and bought it and... it works! I'm ripping it right now, didn't even have to use the LG drive, even my old ASUS can rip it so the epilogue of the story is... 3-layered discs really suck so if you ever encounter a disc that none of your drives can rip and cleaning doesn't help, you might just have a bad disc. It really is a thing.

This never happened to me before. Even though I had a few other "difficult" tripple-layer releases, they all worked eventually after a few tries or reboots. This movie was the only one where only 1 out of 3 discs worked and the 4th only worked because it was a different lower quality 2-layer release.

Just curious if the LG BU40N is the "best" drive for tricky 4k discs? I have the ASUS because it was cross compatible with AnyDVD and MakeMKV, but fighting with too many discs. Try to decide if its worth getting the LG or a different drive?

Also, do you know if there is a specific build or revision of the drive that works with specific firmware versions?

TIA.

All the desktop drives are the same hardware.
The BU40N is the best in my testing