Pros: Stylish, Quiet, Compatible // Cons: front cover sounds a bit cheap

especially to 3D BluRays and data Blu-Ray burning with 50GB I needed a corresponding burner. After looking for something I came up with this device. The design I found interesting, so I decided to buy the device and test.

Content of my boxes:
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The burner, the power supply, a driver / software CD, 3D glasses (paper model, green and red paper), a USB 3.0 cable, the base / foot for those who want to operate the device upright.

The technical data I would like here not miss that one can see on the publisher's website or simply googling for the device.

Device connection and commissioning:
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The device has on the back a pretty powerful on-off switch. The unit can be upended on a walk or simply laid across. I like the design very well, the large blue light on top is pretty bright. In addition, in operation, also blue flashing LED on the front. And because it still is not bright enough, there is a very bright blue LED on the power supply. All this together makes already quite a lot of light. The design is absolutely the way to match the Asus RT-N56U Dual-Band Wireless Router.

I took the unit directly and connected 3.0 interfaces with the USB 3.0 cable to my laptop with USB. My laptop has Windows 7 64-bit in German (no SP1 was installed).

Without the enclosed driver CD to use, the device will be displayed immediately as a BluRay drive in Explorer - it does not even come a pop-up window that the device is installed. Very fix and pleasant. In addition, the unit is very quiet in operation - both when copying data in Windows Explorer as well as the burning of Blu-Ray. Before the drawer to which you put the disk is a flap. The flap when driving in and out of the drawer is quite loud, and sounds very plastic way "- but what` s ...

Software used
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The programs AnyDVD, CloneDVD and Nero Burning Rom 10 detect the device with all functionalities immediately and support it with all their nice features.

AnyDVD plays its possibilities with this drive fully from, the inserted Blu-Ray is desired as an image file on the hard drive stored (Right click on the icon AnyDVD> Image to Disk Write). Then you can burn the image with many programs (with me NERO). You just have to when you insert new Blu-Ray's make sure that the device from AnyDVD to be re-read, otherwise it recognizes the Blu-Ray sometimes not equal.

CloneDVD recognizes the drive as well - unfortunately it can here no Blu-Ray clone - perhaps that will come in a future release. With DVDs it works smoothly.

Nero Burning Rom 10 detects the device immediately and can also burn Blu-Rays (also ISO images). The BluRays (3D) Below I have burned with Nero.

When later the disc quality fired blanks analyzed, it is observed that Nero Burning Rom 10 produces significantly fewer errors than other burning software (despite the same blanks and the same burner!). Have the notes even in a recession for Verbatim blanks.

Burn Blu-Rays
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In CD and DVD blanks have back at my previous DVD burner and forth much tried and analyzed with Nero DiscSpeed ​​Disk Quality after firing (finally I decided here always for Verbatim blanks). I want namely that the data are made to last.

At 50 GB Blu-Ray the issue is even more critical.
Since the media are still quite expensive, I got myself the following blanks to start:

- Sony (Sony Blu Ray Recordable, DL, 50GB)
- Panasonic (Panasonic LM-BR50DE3)
- Verbatim (43748 Verbatim BD-R Dual Layer Blu-ray blanks (50 GB, 6x 5-pack)

Unfortunately Nero DiscSpeed ​​can not "lure" the drive to check BluRays errors. I've googled and searched for other programs that can check a burned BluRay errors. Unfortunately, I found nothing - if anyone knows a program, he can like it noted in a comment on this post.

All 3 brands fired blanks above are but with its stated maximum speed burning (Nero recognizes the 6x Verbatim blank even as 8x combustible!) And can be read by my HP laptop and a Samsung laptop.
My BluRay Player (Samsung BD-D6500) reads only the Sony (recognized immediately and movie starts) and Panasonic Disk (takes a few seconds longer, but then runs 1a). These are the latest 3D movies.

Conclusion:
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Pro:
+ Stable-off switch
+ Great Design (matter of taste)
+ Recognized by Win 7 64 bit and immediately involved
+ Supported by AnyDVD, CloneDVD and Nero Burning Rom 100%
+ Burn All 3 tested Blu-Ray 50GB blanks so that other devices you can immediately (unfortunately no closer quality test possible)
+ Right quiet operation

Contraindications:
- The front cover "clacks" something cheap

I can only recommend the device. In future I will rely solely on the aforementioned Sony Blu-Ray discs.

I hope I could give you useful information,

Greeting,
F.