HP BD240I Blu Ray Combo Drive - Reads 8x BD, BD-ROM, BD-R/RE, 4x BD DL, Writes 16x DVD+/-R, 8x DVD+/-R DL, 8x DVDRW, 12x DVDRAM

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Works great, reads everything burns ALMOST everything. For the price I don't mind that it doesn't burn Blu-Ray too. LightScribe is cool, but takes longer than burning the disc itself. Nice feature but wouldn't be practical for labeling every disk. Construction is solid. Drivers and software are readily available. Plays Blu-Ray flawless. Access and burn times are average to above average depending on media. Get some LightScribe discs and impress those unaware of the technology... which is aparently everyone I know. Never been a fan of HP but this was a good buy.

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this baby is fast for a burner

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As I already had an HP DVD burner, I bought this drive mainly to play bluray and the disks I've thrown at it have played beautifully smooth. I did not install the software that came with it (PowerDVD 8) as you always get a lite version of the software anyway. I bought TotalMedia Theatre 3 and it plays without a hiccup. I've only used the burning capability once to burn a backup of TMT3 and then used LightScribe to label the disk. No problems there. Windows 7 64 bit did give me an error message when installing the drive that it was not installed properly, but then Device Manager showed no problems and the drive has worked without hitch. The bluray capability may have been the issue since I had not yet installed any bluray software. Some system info: Asus P6T, Core i7 920, Corsair 6GB, Asus 4650 video, HP 2709 LCD monitor.