archgon Star UHD External 4K Ultra HD BD Player, Blu-ray BDXL burner external for PC USB 3.0 / -C, M-Disk, protective box, external UHD BluRay drive, aluminum black

Lovely design -- nice and slim and relatively quiet (though does make a fairly high pitch). Even comes with a carrying case -- what a nice surprise! Front-loading is quick and it has a nice spring to the loader.As with all Blu-Ray drives, it's completely useless unless you know a fair deal what you're doing when it comes to messing with drivers to bypass AACS encryption -- no modern CPUs being produced have the hardware that supports the vanilla software they intend you to run this with.If you want to use this with VLC, you'll need to flash the firmware to 1.00 and use MakeMKV to install LibreDrive on it -- which isn't complex, but not particularly easy either (though certainly easier than installing the crap they intend you to setup). With that done you can run this on any PC pretty much (ignore the faff about requiring a certain old intel chipset feature) and it does a more than competent job at running Blu-Ray. If you're on a Mac don't waste your time and just buy a set top player.

This drive is absolutely fantastic, only thing have not tried yet is to play 4k content on it, or tried burning, but it is whisper quiet and even comes in its own hard case, for the money, this is excellent value when it is also future proof, first I was hesitant as had never heard of the name before, but well worth the money, its literally plug and play so don't have to find drivers for it either 5 out of 5 I would rate this at, as I dont expect problems with either playing 4k content or burning disks with it.

I bought this in order to play 4k Blu Rays on my PC. My PC is specced out to thme max - 14th gen i9, RTX 4090, 64gb ram, but it does not work. I was advised in the porduct spec before buying that I needed Cyberlink PowerDVD software in order to play UHD BDs - I bought this for another £44.95.Cyberlink no longer support UHD BD playback. It does not work.I contacted Cyberlink tech support. They have remove3d UHD BD player back due to differing standards.VLC does not work.Windows Media Player does not work.Drive is therfore useless to me. Returned, somewhat angry and disappointed, for a full refund.Unless you want this to write your own Blu rays or for data back, I strongly suggest you do not buy.

Will not play 4K disk on my AMD 4K HDR laptop but was able make a copy using makemkv and that played fine with pdvd. Only problem there is the half hour+ it can take to make the copy before you can watch it.Nice solid piece of kit though.

Relatively expensive, but you get what you pay for: in this case, quality construction. The player worked immediately. With MakeMKV, I can rip Blu ray discs without issues. The only negative is that the cable supplied is FAR too short.

Smart design, reasonable price and most importantly easy to use. Very happy with it.

First class service, excellent in every way!

Used this on a Surface Pro 6. Works as intended when connected to the usb 3 slot. Backed up DVD, blu ray and 3d blu rays no problem. Tried 4k but didn't work. Did a bit of research and it seems to be a on going issue with lots of 4k drives. Not sure if 4k works or not when playing the disc. Playing discs to watch and trying to back them up is different.