Steps for identifying the age of your drive and version of the firmware follow now. The following programs and their optimizations are made by Mike Chen (Makemkv), MartyMcNuts (GUI for the flasher) and SamuriHL (for his contributions to flashing and to improving the GUI for flashing). Buy a new one for UHD and use the old one for something else. So: Drives older than 2015 - stay away from it. There are possible rescue measures, but they are complicated and not necessarily successful. Before that date they weren't and flashing firmware with 'UHD friendly' firmware turns such a drives into an expensive doorstop. But this is only the case if the drives were manufactured after approximately 2015. There are drives that appear to be 'UHD friendly drives' by name in the lists. Update January 4, 2022: AnyDVD now also works with official drives since version 8.5.8.2!īut now here is the first warning.

The good news is, “UHD friendly drives” work with all of them. AnyDVDHD only works with “UHD friendly drives”. Other software (Makemkv, DVDFab etc.) works both with 'UHD Official drives' and “UHD friendly drives”.

There are so-called 'UHD friendly drives' that have an unintentional loophole in the firmware and there are the so-called 'UHD official drives' that have then closed this loophole. This is a first attempt to write a comprehensive guide for flashing BD (UHD / 4k) drives for the use with AnyDVDHD.

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