Will this blu ray burner work to backup my blurays to a MKV file for my home server and wont have to worry about cinavia protection?
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I have used this burner to rip my blu-rays with makemkv. Then just handbrake to shrink them down to size. Its time consuming but it is worth it to have them available to watch without having to get up.
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I believe it will. I backup a lot of my kids movies and have not found any problems watching them on any of the different formats I have done
1830901
If your notebook is few years old and came with at least Windows 7 you should be good to go. All you will need is to buy third party software (Cyberlink, Nero, or Corel: examples only) to fully enable Blu-Ray burning and playing. If you are trying to prolong the life of an older notebook it will depend on several factors not just drive firmware. One factor is the operating system installed, Windows XP bad, at least Windows 7 good. The hardware configuration of your notebook is important, CPU, GPU, and amount of memory, should meet HD and Blu-Ray requirements. If the CPU is too weak such as an older single core Pentium or Celeron, I would recommend that you just stop and buy a new cheap notebook for around $250.00 to $350.00. If the graphics card is too old and weak and not ready for HD, stop and buy a new notebook. The memory limitations of that notebook may also be a problem. The least amount I would run is 8 GB of Ram but go no less than 4 gigs. Research at HP support and also HP community blogs with the notebook exact model number Presario CQ60-xxxx. I looked but without the full model number I could not discern from the numerous models which specs applied to the CQ60 you have. A work around that I did to keep using an old notebook was to buy an external Blu-Ray burner-player, upgraded to Windows 7 Pro (OEM) from Windows XP, it worked great for a time, eventually had to realize I needed a new notebook, cheaper and easier in the long run. I used Cyberlink Power2Go 8 for burning and Corel WinDVD Pro for playing Blu-Ray. Sorry for the long response and good luck.
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I bought it with a Panasonic UJ260 6x bluray burner sata laptop drive and worked it out perfectly. But remember to have installed in your pc the right software for playing or burning blu-ray discs.
59778
Yes, it reads a DVDRW data disc just fine with .mp4 files, however if they are high-def files, it hick-ups periodically, due to the transfer rate, these should be on a blu-ray, but I don't have a BD burner yet. Haven't tried the USB yet, but it should read it also. Blu-rays are flawless, netflix is too, but shearching from the tv menu is lame, better to "pair" with your laptop, etc, and search from it, while playing through the tv.
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Yes. I use thePhilips BD-RDL Blu-Ray Disk and better still the TDK BD-RE DL. The Panasonic UJ262 burns 46G files without problems. However you wait 3.5 hours for the burning at a max of 2x speed.
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They work very well with my LG burners and CyberLink Blu-ray Disk suite software. I use the Power2Go option to burn whole disc images and backup folders. I get very reliable 4X burns.
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Yes. I got this drive specifically for dual layer Blu-Ray discs. I have now burned several single and dual layer discs with verify turned on and have had a 100% success rate!
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yes. I put a 11gb MKV of a bluray rip. Played fine. The MKV was on a thumbdrive which was formatted NTFS
562127
I own the M-DISC media and it is fantastic with my external LG Blu-Ray drive. But would require an awful lot of discs for a full backup. I backup to an external HD using Acronis Tru-Image. Making an image of the entire drive gives me everything including the operating system, registry, programs and all of the files.
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yes! I play mkv files on mine from an external hard drive. Occasionally the mkv will not read well on the blu ray player, even though it plays on a computer, but this is rare. good luck! -Jay
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Actually, this model doesn't burn Bluray disc. It can only read bluray disc. It will burn CD and DVD though. I am sorry about the confusion.
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Well I am using it with xbmc and I can play bluray movies no problem. You could get nvidia video card or this celeron cpu/ motherboard.
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While I can't pretend to have studied this matter in depth, I can't think of any reason why it WON'T work.Moreover, I would think that, if there were a problem, either the Manufacturer, Amazon, or both, would include a warning (similar to the "region" codes placed on DVD/Blu-rays) in the description.
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It should be as it doesn't come with any software. You'll have to obtain that from the web. Lots of free Blu-Ray Burning software available, I'd recommend using DVDVIDEOSOFT.com, it's freeware with no limits, banners or watermarks over your videos.
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According to the link below, it will not burn blu rays. You can rip them to your computer, but not rewrite to disc.http://burners.burn4free.com/hewlett-packard/hp-bc-5501h.htm
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I haven't tried it with a blu-ray burner but I suspect it will work fine. I have 2 with ASUS CD/DVD burners in them. USB 2.0 is slow and I plan to use an eSATA external case for blu-ray. This is probably a good choice if you're on a budget.