HP (12x Internal Blu-ray Disc Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive)

Pros

Burns great to dvd5 and dvd9 for avchd or dvd. Forget the blu-ray Discs wast of money unless HP has a fix whiich I havenot been able to find anywhere.

Cons

Make a lot of bad blu-ray discs unusable expensive. It will burn a disc 1 out of 5. The other 4 are useless it try to start the burn than says burn to disc failed and makes the disc useless.

Summary

Buy a Lite -On or Pioneer they support there products. I would take this one back if I had know sooner that it would not have been supported by HP. Wasted $139.00. and about $100.00 in discs that are now useless.

Pros

Software package is useful. Easy PnP installation.

Cons

ZERO support available from HP, despite the manufacturing and marketing - not even a driver available! LightScribe feature does not work on either DVD or CD media.

Summary

Pros

I bought my HP laptop with HDMI in 2009 with similar problem. Now it is better. Nothing except Blu-Ray writer did not work.

Cons

HP Product Managers should test its products as users before release to market. I ended up to return twice in 3 months.

Summary

If you find a reliable Blue-Ray writer, please let us know.