Blu-Ray Player Laptop External USB DVD RW Burner Drive

by Panasonic

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B001UDTTJE
• Item model number: Panasonic UJ-120
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 2, 2009

Product Description

Power Tip: External power is not required -- fully powered by USB. This external drive uses USB 2.0 System Requirements : Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP, Vista Working USB 2.0 port (Compatible with USB1.1) Must have at least a core-duo machine with 1GB RAM The Blu-ray disc format offers 5 to 10 times more storage than DVD, meaning 25 to 50 GB of data can be stored on a single Blu-ray disc. Blu-ray drives will lead the way for next generation data and high definition movie storage. Panasonic UJ-120 BD-ROM Combo Drive inside. Blu-ray read only + Super Multi functions, Attribute Value! Specifications: 2X BD-ROM reading 5X DVD-RAM Writing 8X DVD-R Writing 2X DVD-R DL Writing 4X DVD-RW Writing 8X DVD+R Writing 2.4X DVD+R DL Writing 4X DVD+RW Writing 8X CD-R Writing 8X CD-RW Writing Disk Load Type: Tray Color: White case Features: 1. External slim DVDRW Drive 2. Powered by USB or external ac adapter 3. Plug & Play, travel easily 4. Hot-swapping capability Package Includes: 1 pc Blu-ray Drive 1 pc USB data cabel 1 pc USB Power Cable (PS2) 1 pc AC Adapter (5V) Unit dimension: 160 x 137 x 19mm USB data cable: 60cm USB power cable: 60cm Fit Laptop models: Work with any laptop and desk pc with USB port. Packing: Single retail box. Brand New Replacement Product, works as genuine parts, 100% OEM Compatible!! Full 6 months warranty!

Customer Reviews

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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Works for me (mostly), May 29, 2010

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nlel1975 (Jersey, Channel Islands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blu-Ray Player Laptop External USB DVD RW Burner Drive (Electronics)

I bought one of these Blu-Ray slimline external writers from someone in China on eBay. The drive is basically a Panasonic UJ-230A slimline sata laptop drive in an external usb 2.0 casing. I have tested my drive under Windows 7 and it works with only 1 USB cable connected (although it comes with 2 usb cables in case you need more power).

It plays back Blu-Ray perfectly on both the Windows 7 machines I tried it on, one was a 2.66ghz iMac (running Windows 7) the other was an Acer 1810tz notebook. The only issue with this drive from my testing so far is that it cannot recognise some 4 year old -R or -RW DVD discs (which work in another drive).

If you use +R +RW or +R DL DVD discs it recognises them fine and they work, I have yet to burn a Blu-Ray as I have no discs yet but I am confident there will be no problems there, the drive does recognise all pressed DVDs no problem its just the -R or -RW discs it does not like.

My drive is running firmware version 1.0 and there is a 1.20 update I believe which may improve things a bit but overall I am satisfied with the drive.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars NOT a Blu-ray player but an Okay external Blu-ray drive, May 19, 2011

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A. Dent "Aragorn" (Minas Anor, GD) - See all my reviews
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First, it should be understood that this is not a Blu-ray player. This is an external optical drive that reads Blu-ray discs and can read and write DVD discs. It will NOT play Blu-ray movies unless you have a Blu-ray player software installed on your computer.

These being said, what my computer believes it's a "MATSHITA BD-CMB UJ141AL 1001 10091400" turned out to be quite a decent external drive. The plastic enclosure is reasonably sturdy but the disc tray needs to be treated gently when opened - it's probably easy to break but it's no worse than the disc trays that are part of any brand-name laptop internal DVD drive.

The drive is powered through one or 2 USB 2.0 ports and the 2 cables are included. I was able to operate the drive while powered through one USB port only.

I am not using the drive to play Blu-ray movies but, given that it was able to read Blu-ray discs reliably, I assume that it should play movies with the proper software.

On a Windows 7 machine the drive was recognized and could be used immediately and I suspect that all Windows XP or later machines should have no problems. There drive comes with a CD to install the drive on Windows 98 computers.

As for the manual, I don't understand why they didn't use Google's free auto-translate service. The output would have been a lot better than "damager caused by unauthorized repairs are not included within the guarantee period and they are subject to be charged" or "please do not place the driver under easy pressure to guarantee the proper operation of the drive." By the way, the reference to 'guarantee' above does not mean that a warranty is actually provided because I couldn't find any warranty statement.

To conclude: good external drive, doesn't play Blu-ray movies unless you have the software, no documentation, no explicit warranty, no tech support. Me, I'm happy with what I got and reading the 12 (short) paragraphs 'manual' was fun so it's 3 stars meaning "it's Okay".

My advice: if the tray doesn't open, the case is cracked or the drive is not quickly recognized by your XP or later Windows computer, return it immediately. If it actually works - and mine did - chances are it will continue to work for a long time if treated with care.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DOES NOT WORK ON ANY MAC, April 27, 2011

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PETER VADASZ (Flagstaff, AZ, USA) - See all my reviews
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The claim that this device works on ALL APPLE COMPUTERS is wrong and missleading. It does not, unless you convert your Mac into a PC by using BootCamp and install the Windows OS which needs partitioning your HD and costs extra $$$ to buy.