I bought this drive for this purpose. It works very well. However, you need a good ripping software, Blu-Ray is tricky.

This device is not compatible with UHD (4K) Blu-ray discs. It supports conventional Blu-ray formats (BD-R, BD-RE, BD-ROM), but there is no indication that it supports 4K UHD Blu-ray playback. This type of player is designed for Full HD Blu-ray and not for 4K UHD discs.

The LG BP55EB40 device is not officially compatible with Windows 11. According to the information available, many LG optical drives, including similar models, do not support Windows 11, which may lead to compatibility issues. It is recommended to consult the manufacturer to look for an alternative solution or check if there are updates or special drivers that could improve compatibility.

With the right firmware plus SW probably yes (haven't tried it), up to UHD ripping and then playback for sure.

You have to download a third-party application that allows you to watch the Blu-ray. At least on a Mac.

Yes, there is a USB cable included, there is a micro USB port on the drive itself and the USB cable supplied has two USB-A ports, both of which must be used otherwise the burner will not get enough power. So you need two USB-A ports on the PC to be able to burn Blu-ray with it. Reading is probably also possible with one USB-A connection.

So far I have only used this drive with BlueRay discs. It works fine on newer PCs, also in combination with the VLC player. Playing BlueRay was not possible with an older device, but this was more due to the lack of processing power for decoding. Does the Surface supply enough power? Maybe it would help to use an external USB power supply with the Y-USB cable supplied?

Separate software must be purchased if the operating system is insufficient for burning operations.

No can do.

Supplied Y-cable with 2x USB type A, no external power supply unit required.

Yes, that works. I have only read and not yet burnt anything. According to the description, all formats should be able to be written.

It's easy and free of charge. There is freeware available to play Bluray's. With a little technical know-how, you can also get VLC Player to play Bluray. There are enough instructions on the net.

I recently purchased the LG BP55EB40. It reads CDs and DVDs perfectly on a WIN10 laptop. I haven't burnt anything yet, but I assume that this will also work.

Hello, it can play Blu-ray, cd and dvd, it can also burn all three formats.

That's it. Just plug it in, install the program provided and off you go to watch blue ray DVDs

I have the device in my PC under Windows 10 for reading and writing Blu-ray films. You can watch films with the VLC player, for example, but also with other players.