Is Sony NEC Optiarc BC-5600S any good for AnyDVD?

[peter-h]

I am running a newly built windoze7 PC. It has a BR DVD player from Matshita/Panasonic. It didn't come with any DVD playing software so I bought AnyDVD instead.

I was able to rip a BR DVD (Client Eastwood) on it. All fine - 35GB of files

However ripping another normal DVD (In the shadow of the Moon) fails. AnyDVD says it cannot read it. It suggests going to rpc.com, but I cannot find any reference there to my DVD/BR drive which is a Matshita BD-CMB UJ-120.

Slysoft tech support advise that Matshita drives are a known problem, that any other make should be OK, but they say for legal reasons they cannot say if any other particular drive works.

There isn't a big choice of BR drives in the slimline format I need, but this is one:

http://uk.insight.com/apps/productpr...3Dplh%26P%3D24

Can anybody offer comments on whether it is known to work? AFAIK it has to be SATA.

Any feedback much appreciated. I am in the UK.

[peter-h]

I am running a newly built windoze7 PC. It has a BR DVD player from Matshita/Panasonic. It didn't come with any DVD playing software so I bought AnyDVD instead.

I was able to rip a BR DVD (Client Eastwood) on it. All fine - 35GB of files

However ripping another normal DVD (In the shadow of the Moon) fails. AnyDVD says it cannot read it. It suggests going to rpc.com, but I cannot find any reference there to my DVD/BR drive which is a Matshita BD-CMB UJ-120.

Slysoft tech support advise that Matshita drives are a known problem, that any other make should be OK, but they say for legal reasons they cannot say if any other particular drive works.

There isn't a big choice of BR drives in the slimline format I need, but this is one:

http://uk.insight.com/apps/productpr...3Dplh%26P%3D24

Can anybody offer comments on whether it is known to work? AFAIK it has to be SATA.

Any feedback much appreciated. I am in the UK.

[mike_r]

Matshita (Panasonic OEM) drives also have a reputation of being cheap junk (which is probably why some laptop companies love these drives)

They die easily, and also suffer from region coding issues. Click this. They should really be avoided.

On a personal note, I have the same drive you mention. Actually it's the 2nd one as the 1st died after about 10 Blu-Rays. I don't use it so much anymore, but I have had positive experiences too. When my LG GGC-H20Ls have failed the Matshita has actually been able to read Blu-Rays perhaps to the lower rotation?

I can't comment on which slimline you should buy, but I know they are expensive. Why not consider a 'normal' sized one (they are cheaper and faster) and an external USB/eSATA connector?

[peter-h]

Mike,

Many thanks for your input.

It sounds like I need to set the region code on this drive. Is there a bit of software for doing so?

I am unlikely to be reading DVDs (normal or BR) other than the UK region, so setting this and being stuck with it is not a big issue.

The PC is a small-enclosure thing which cannot take a full size drive. It also doesn't come with PowerDVD which I guess is the traditional way that one sets up the RC (the first time one plays a DVD on it, or whatever).

Peter

[mike_r]

You must exit AnyDVD when checking.

1. Right click the fox on your toolbar. Exit AnyDVD.
2. Click start. Right click on My computer--->select properties.
3. Click on the Hardware tab--->click the device manager button.
4. Open the DVD/DROM branch---> right click on your optical drive.
5. Click properties.
6. You should have a region tab. From there you can select a region.
7. Select the region that you're in
8. Start AnyDVD.

Blu-Ray regions are not stored on the drive, so you can change it as often as you like. Try Google, different software players have different reset methods.

[majorforum88]

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