Thought I would share:-
I recently had one of my out of warranty M500 players decide it would stop reading CD's & DVD's although Blu-Ray's worked perfectly so I decided to open the player and try a replacement.
Original drive was an LG UH08LS10 (Firmware 2.02) which is long discontinued and as I had a spare LG CH12NS30 which is still current I did the swap and it works.
Not sure if this was luck or if other drives will work but as this is still a current LG drive if you have similar issues at around $60 it is worth a try.
I recently had one of my out of warranty M500 players decide it would stop reading CD's & DVD's although Blu-Ray's worked perfectly so I decided to open the player and try a replacement.
Original drive was an LG UH08LS10 (Firmware 2.02) which is long discontinued and as I had a spare LG CH12NS30 which is still current I did the swap and it works.
Not sure if this was luck or if other drives will work but as this is still a current LG drive if you have similar issues at around $60 it is worth a try.