Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is a great drive for the money. Having said that. In 2017 they started shipping them with a firmware update (v1.03) that killed its ability to read 4k bluray movies. If you are slick and computer savvy you can roll back the driver to version 1.02 but it's not as easy as going to the Driver download page on LGs site and downloading the older firmware. LG locked the firmware in so you can only update, NO roll back. All hope is not lost! I have personally completed the roll back process. It was NOT easy and there were many speed bumps along the way but I did complete the process successfully and have been able to read several 4k Blu Ray movies without issue. If you google something called "dosflash patched". It should bring up a site with "myce dot com" in the address. You can read the instruction for the roll back. You will need to sign up if you want to download the files needed. This procedure is only for advanced computer geeks only. You can brick your drive easily. If you don't know what your doing, find someone who does. Don't say I didn't warn you. I will give you one bit of advice since the instructions for doing this do not make this part expressly clear. You MUST use a 32 bit (x86) version of windows to perform the roll back. It just will not work on 64 bit (x64) versions of windows. Don't try, don't wast your time. I spent two days trying to make it work. It won't. I used 7, so I can only validate that it will work on win7 32 bit. You can always partition your HDD and install x86 win7 on there and boot into it. Again, only for advanced computer users. I hope this helps any of you out there that think a firmware patch claiming to increase comparability, but in fact cripples a perfectly good 4k drive is wrong and want to show LG that this underhanded and sleezy trick won't be tolerated!