I just purchased an LG External BE16NU50 from Best Buy (awaiting delivery). I think I saw on these forums that this. Is a UHD frindly burner (hope I did not mis-read that). Anyway, is there a specific firmware version I should be looking for? I suppose being brand new it would not have any updated firmware from the manufacturing date. I really am not ready to begin UHD yet, as I do not even have a 4K TV and am not planing on one anytime soon, however, when I DO I did not want to miss out and all of the UHD friendly ones be gone and the only thing left was official drives that have no chance of working for me in this endeavor. Thanks for any responses.
This is the drive I use. Just bought it about a month ago. Came with 1.01 firmware. Leaving it at that. Not updating anything. And when I'm not using it I turn it off (switch on the rear). Whenever there are Windows updates, I unplug the USB cable (just to be safe). It is a very good drive and works great with UHD discs so far.