Review on High-Performance Blu-Ray Player Laptop External USB DVD RW Burner Drive: Unleash Superior Media Capabilities by Brad Collins

Where to start? Ah yes, power. They tell you that you don't need an AC adapter because this drive gets all the power it needs from USB. However, what they don't tell you is that you need to use TWO powered USB ports for this. I would prefer a power supply. I inserted one of my DVDs to test the performance of iTunes DVD backup via Handbrake. It froze almost immediately. The debug screen told me it was a region issue, meaning the drive was region 1 and the player was region 2. The sparse documentation said nothing about it. I fixed this by getting OS X's native DVD player app to read the movie and automatically reloading the disc to work as a region 1 player. It worked from there, but the performance is really disappointing. This is a slow reader. I bought a cheap off the shelf Blu-ray disc from a local store to test this out as this is my first Blu-ray player and I don't have a disc library to test yet. This first disk repeatedly failed to read. I'll come back to this review later in case the problem was just the drive, but apparently this reader is such cheap Chinese junk technology that I wouldn't be surprised if the drive was the problem. So far my verdict is that this drive pack is environmentally friendly and I would probably be a lot happier if I wasn't so stingy with my purchasing decision. My early failure was due to a bad hard drive the first time. However, all other parts of my review are still relevant.