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External blu-ray disc player/writer - can I burn a blu-ray disc?

Having trouble playing a blu-ray disc in my current Panasonic player which is played in the past and now it won't.  I thought maybe I could buy an external blu-ray player and connected to my desktop to see if it might play there.

Can I copy a Blu-ray disc and keep it as a back up.  I would hate to lose other Blu-ray discs.

There is a diversity of external Blu-ray players out there and I read that the external drives might do a better job than the console related Blu-ray players which can only be used to play obviously.

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mahler123
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Is it just one disc that won’t play, or all of them?  
An external Optical drive that plays Blu Rays should work to play the discs.  Copying them to a server , or even another disc, is another kettle of fish.  It might be possible but probably not worth the effort of the workarounds that are necessary.

 

I can’t speak for the stability of the reader in the machine vs an external reader.  It probably depends on the individual optical readers and BRP.  There are certainly a lot of cheaply built computer peripherals out there.  I also one had a $79 Sony BRP die on me after 2 years.  My Oppo 105 and 203 are going strong after years of use

mahler123
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Have you played other Blu Rays since your last post?  What is going on?  
If it’s one bad disc that won’t play I would stay calm.  I had a much loved Blu Ray do the same thing about 5 years ago but it was an outlier.

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