01-05-2017 08:49 PM
Dear Sirs,
I have change the operating system of my PC from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
When I connect the portable blu ray writer Model SE-506 via USB I can work with CDs and DVDs. But Blu Ray discs are not being recognized anymore.
It seems that the player is not compatible to Windows 10 at all.
Where can I get a driver for Windows 10 and if needed a firmware update?
Many thanks,
Alex
04-04-2019 12:51 AM
hi again
it's doesn't work for me, i activate local admin account and logged in, connect bd drive and test with a bd disc recorded with the same burner, but no results, windows detects unit as a bd recorder, but doesn't recognize disc....any other thing you do in your machine? i think everybody aprecciated your help if you ilustrate more deeply your experience... thanks
04-04-2019 02:26 AM - last edited 04-04-2019 02:38 AM
OK, l'll post a video tommorow to demostrate... I'm sorry it didn't work for you...
04-04-2019 02:45 AM
I'm burned out over this whole thing. I've been building home-brew systems since 1985. I know and understand system integration. High-end systems engineering paid my salary for my career (45 years) until I retired a couple of years ago. This farago strikes me not as an engineering failure, but a marketing failure. I designed and built a perfectly servicable "soccer-mom van" of a system (gigabyte b360n wifi motherboard, i3-8100 cpu, 32Gb DDR4 ram, Intel SSD, and the optical media player at the center of this all). When I searched out the problems I was having on the MS site, I discovered that, with the propogation of the last year Win update, MS support of the many BRD licensing support options was being abandoned. So, suddenly, we were all left without BRD support (and my DVD support is shaky, at best). This wasn't the fault of some cadre of MS engineers but the result of some clique of marketing droids (no, I'm not biased after 45 years in the business). Enough, already! I've ordered a purpose built "smart" BRD player for my man-eyrie and will convert my Win10 entertainment player brick into an Xubuntu Mystery Machine! So long and thanks for all the fish!
07-05-2019 09:36 PM - last edited 07-05-2019 09:38 PM
Hi everyone
First - sorry for my poor language.
A few information:
- I bought my SE-506CB/RSBD in 2014. I use this optical drive on Windows 7 Sp1 x64 and Windows 10 x64 Pro [from build 1604].
- Now I have installed on my PC Windows 10 Pro x64 [bulid 1809].
- Usually I work on local account without admin permission.
- I upgraded firmware to TS02.
My tips for Owners:
1. Check Yours cable - my original of Samsung was broken. Now I use InLine USB 2.0
2. Always connect optical drive to USB 2.0/3.0/3.1 on your motherboard - not on USB's on front panel yours PC case
3. To burn BR disc use free soft: BurnAware Free [current version: 12.3]
4. To play BR disc I use "AnyMP4 Blu-ray Player" [version: 6.3.22]. The original, a free copy I have download from giveawayoftheday
08-05-2019 04:17 PM
09-05-2019 10:10 PM
Hi
I burn only data [my files: docs, photos, video etc.] on BR disc. I burned around 80x 25GB discs - 99% was successful (maybe one or two was wasted?)
I try to burn a few 50GB discs - around 75% was successful.
I use this 25GB discs:
http://esperanza.pl/bd-r-esperanza-25gb-x4---cake-box-10pcs-,151,416.html
https://www.verbatim-europe.co.uk/en/prod/bd-r-sl-datalife-25gb-6x-25-pack-spindle-43837/
12-06-2019 10:50 PM
03-07-2019 03:31 PM
hi friend
my bd burner still no working with windows 10 build 1903 using local admin account, windows detects drive but no disc, burnaware 12.4 with admin permissions it detects unit but no disc, so can't do anything....
i use original cable and verbatim bd-r recordable like this
can u post your pc specs and windows config? thanks
05-07-2019 04:44 PM - last edited 05-07-2019 04:45 PM
I have this model I bought many years ago, still working as expected without problems, including Windows10
Details:
- SE506BB/TSBD F/W-TS00
- I never used it to watch BD movies, just to write/read in BD data for my backups
I supsect that some part of people having trouble probably because got reach the maximum ammount of times you're able to change region for BD protected movie disks. You can check how much changes are left by going to Device Manager->DVD/CD-ROM drives->TSSTcorp BDDVDW SE-506BB USB Device->right click->properties->DVD region and check "Changings remaining". If theres any change remaining, you're stuck with the last selected region to be able to play such protected disks. My drive have 5 changes yet to be used, as I never used it to play movies.
- I Wonder: If theres any chance of a bug in this part, that's, if you reach the maximum ammount of changes the drive will block any disks, even writeable ones. Perhaps that's a nice information to test ammong defective drives to reach a conclusion about this.
- Unfortunately I have seem in the past DVD movie players (including software players) that will change the region automatically without asking.... also people just go pressing OK without reading the message sometimes.
Salute!
05-07-2019 11:57 PM