Just purchased this super drive. Can't get it to eject my blu-ray disc when I am done. Am I doing something wrong? Using MBPro w/OSX Mav 10.9.
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Have you tried dragging the icon on your desktop to the trash? That is what always works for me. It will not open if you simply push the button on the front of the drive.
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Drag the disc on the desktop to the trash can. The disc will automatically eject.
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I had the same issues with sporadic disc-ejection problems. Dragging the disc icon to the trash, using the "Eject Disc" command from the pull down menu, or pushing the eject button on the unit often didn't work. It also would sometimes struggle with reading a blank disc or a disc with data on it. After six months of frustration, I finally bailed and got a different drive (an MCE Blu-Ray Player and SuperDrive, which has worked flawlessly.)
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As indicated, you have to use the software to eject discs on a Mac, it turns off the built-in eject button. If your Mac crashes you can usually get the disc out right after you initiate a restart. If all else fails, there usually is a small hole that you can gently push a straightened paperclip into and press and the mechanism will release.
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I haven't had a problem playing rented Blu Ray discs or DVDs after installing the most current driver. I've heard that several people had issues, but I wonder if it was related to the driver.
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As far as I know my drive is NOT blueray. It is labeled as 3D capable so I asume that is in DVD mode. One sure way of determining if the drive is Blue Ray is to check the drive door for the Blue Ray symbol. A "b" with a backward "C" underlined with the words "Bluray".
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hi... can u explain it clearly . do u have problem installing d drives ???? / or it doesnt work properly with the VLC /Games ext ?????/
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It doesn't Have DVD/Blu-ray drive in it. It might support one via usb? I wasn't satisfied with it for multiple reasons and sent it back. A Mac Mini makes a much better HTPC.
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I use it on a mac. I have bumped older ones and received the message "You have removed the disk without first ejecting. Your disk may be damaged" or something to that effect. but found no damage to the info. That said... there is always the first time.
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I had the same problem the Wolfman Blu-ray and traced the problem down to the flash drive I had connected to the USB port. When I disconnected it, loaded like a charm, not even the hint of a hiccup.
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Hi Harvo, The DIGISTOR drive doesn't come with software for Mac that allows regular disc file burning. The Mac software that it comes with is called REWIND and it is built for creating a personal archive of files you want to archive to Blu-ray disc. If you'd like to burn regular Blu-ray disc files to disc, you will need additional software like Toast, which is not included in the package.Thanks,The DIGISTOR Support Teamwww.digistor.com/support
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Hi there, there is no sort of manual and should work immediately as it did with my blu ray player. I hope this helps, and if it's the wrong one, sent it back and hopefully you find the correct one
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I use these on my Mac Pro. They are not a perfectly Apple compliant drives. If I want to boot off of the drive, I have to boot up holding the option key and then manually select the optical disk. The drive won't let me boot off of it holding the C key. Even so, they still work great on my Mac and I don't expect any firmware update to make the C key work for booting off this optical drive.I would imagine that Sony engineered these drives for Windows boxes and not for the Mac or the Xbox.
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It's just plug and play. I have a 2011 mac book pro and have use this drive several times with no issues. Just remember that macs don't have native Blu-ray playback. You'll see the disk mount, and you can even burn to recordable disks. But you will need 3rd party software to play movies. There is free stuff out there if you google it.
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hmmm good question...mine just keeps pluggin along. Since I got this used from some one who clearly could not get it going with the cryptic instructions...I got it for steal (price of the drives).
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Apparently its a format issue. Any disc with BD-Java encoding will not resume. I like the higher res of bluray but hate pretty much everything else about the format. It is not consumer friendly in the least.
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It worked fine on our DVD player but shot right back out of my MacBook Pro. No idea whether that was the fault of the MBPro, or the product.
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Well, Alicia B: The Manufacturer does not exclude Blu-Ray Disc - I think they would have if they found it would have been harmful or not be useful in that particualar type of Disc. I have used this a number of times with success on DVD's and CD's. But I believe probably how severe your damage is makes all the difference. Now Alicia, all you have to do is to make a decision. Is it worth the $25.00 investment + shipping if applicable to take a chance to see if it works , or improves it or not. Also, I don't know, but maybe the Manufacture has a good return policy if not satisified, Oftentimes they do. You can also check with Amazons customer service, I'm sure they would know about return policies. I hope I have helped you at least to some extent. Isn't everything about decisions? - decisions?, the right one the wrong one. Good Luck with everything, and I hope for you that it everything works out well.
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Good question. I am running Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro and have had no problems burning and accessing Blu-ray disks with this drive. I have not installed any 3rd party software to allow this to occur.
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If you're referring to the DVD super drive from Apple it uses USB not thunderbolt.http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD564ZM/A/apple-usb-superdrive