Blu-ray writer quad-layer info request 2016-Jan

Hi Charles

I have the SBC-06D2X-U for the last 1.5 years. It was working well up to lately when it started exhibiting similar issues to what you are having. I also have an older Lacie Blu-ray player unit and an even older AOpen DVD player. Mostly I am playing music cd's. I have found several cd's that don't seem to be able to be initialized by one player or another. I had a Phil Collins "testify" cd set where the main cd worked fine with the ASUS but I could not get the bonus disc to read. It worked fine with the Lacie. So, I am not sure about how robust these players are if they cannot contend with a simple CD read function much less a blu-ray. I was also an early adopter of blu-ray for TV playback and have found they only last for 1-2 years before they stop playing reliably. I am thinking buy cheaper and recycle every year. I have Toast 12 and it worked fine with the ASUS unit.

DJC737 wrote:

Hi Charles

I have the SBC-06D2X-U for the last 1.5 years. It was working well up to lately when it started exhibiting similar issues to what you are having. I also have an older Lacie Blu-ray player unit and an even older AOpen DVD player. Mostly I am playing music cd's. I have found several cd's that don't seem to be able to be initialized by one player or another. I had a Phil Collins "testify" cd set where the main cd worked fine with the ASUS but I could not get the bonus disc to read. It worked fine with the Lacie. So, I am not sure about how robust these players are if they cannot contend with a simple CD read function much less a blu-ray. I was also an early adopter of blu-ray for TV playback and have found they only last for 1-2 years before they stop playing reliably. I am thinking buy cheaper and recycle every year. I have Toast 12 and it worked fine with the ASUS unit.

Did you realize this thread is about a 1.5 years old?

Charles,

If you want good direct, contact OWC (www.macsales.com), they have many Blue Ray solutions for you to choose from.Because they specialize in Macs you can be sure it will work. Let them know exactly what you want to do with it and they can help steer you to a solution that works for you.

If you take a look at the various CES reports you will notice there are 4K UHD players coming. No doubt there will be players for computers as well. If you wait to get the "latest and greatest", you will never buy anything because there will be something new just about every year.

I would suggest not spending one penny on a Blu-Ray player for your MAC. I have a BD Writer Model SE-506 and was using MacGo Blu-Ray player back in the Maverick days. With each OS update the software got more and more flaky. Now with El Capitan it doesn't work at all. For a long time I thought it was the BD Writer. One can find driver/fw updates for Windows, but I have yet to find one for Mac.

MacGo was pretty useless in helping with the problems I was encountering with their software. I am only using the BD Writer for a player with that software. I even considered buying a different drive but MacGo said the drive I had was good; still nothing worked.

Then thinking the problem was the software and not the drive, I got Aiseesoft's player and the drive worked once. It is interesting that Aiseesoft's player and MacGo's Blu-Ray player software look identical, and as of now neither work also neither software packages have had updates in months.

One thing I wrote MacGo about was their poor tech support. They will reply with cry-baby responses about being their for service, but in fact I have never had any actually technical support from MacGo. I think they are just selling software to people unfamiliar of the Apple Blu-Ray player issue.

FWIW, unless you have the need for playback of movie or TV DVDs or CDs, it is

much more cost effective these days to just go and by an external HDD drive.

1TB portable HDDs can be had for around $60 at retail outlets and some what

cheaper over the internet.