My Disc Drive Isn't Reading Blu-rays

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I have a LG WH14NS40 Blu-ray/DVD/CD Disc drive, and it won't read ANY of my blu-ray movies. It can read normal DVDs and CDs without a problem, but whenever there is a blu-ray in the drive, it says there is no disc. Also, I'm not sure if this is related, but in My Computer I have two disc drives, but I only have one physical one. They're BD-RE Drive and BD-ROM drive, I think it's reading off the RE one. I use PowerDVD 10 to attempt to watch the movies, which came on the driver disc for the drive, and it won't see any blu-rays inserted either. I even updated both PowerDVD and my disc drive, but still it won't read any blu-rays. Can anyone help, because I feel really cheated having paid $60 for a blu-ray drive that can't read blu-rays.
 
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Is there any way around the encryption? Is there any software or firmware update that has the necessary codes to read them? It should work though because PowerDVD 10, in the settings has a region picker for how to read the discs, which means it should be able to decyrpt them. I also don't have any plain old blu-rays with nothing on them to test that theory.
 
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Yes, but we cannot discuss circumventing encryption on the forums.

You probably do not need any firmware updates. The region picker is a separate issue from encryption. I expect that your disk drives are working fine and that testing them would only confirm that.
 
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How would I test the drive? I know that DVDs and CDs work without a hitch but when I put in a blu-ray, even in My Computer it tells me I haven't inserted a disc. How can I test if it works without buying blank blu-rays? Shouldn't blu-ray playing software, such as PowerDVD 10, which was included with my drive be capable of performing what it claims to do?
 
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It could one of several issues but its best you open your own thread to troubleshoot your particular case.

I, for one, have never had an issue playing BD's on any of the 4pc's I have so I'm not buying the encryption issue. I'd be more inclined to believe its not able to play due to a defective blue laser or the system is not able to create a protected path so that the video/sound cannot be copied. Alright so that could be considered encryption too... I'm shutting up now..
 
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The solution is there is no solution, in a hardware sense. It seems that OEM disc manufacturers are ripping people off what with their "blu-ray capability" shiz. yes, the drive can read blu-rays, but blu-rays require a codec to decrypt them. And OEM drives, unfortunately for us consumers, don't come with said codecs. So you would have to buy one. What I do, at least till I feel that it's absolutely necessary for me to cough $50 to buy a codec (or until it's on sale) is use the demo version, which works with about 80% of blu-rays, at least all the ones I own. Here: http://www.dvdfabb.com/passkey-lite.htm
 
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