If you are a movie enthusiast, you must have strict requirements about the movie audio and video quality. What you desire is to obtain the best home video picture quality. Since 2006, Blu-ray has been introduced to movie lovers with its high resolution picture quality. With time passed by, nowadays you are available to more advanced video format – Ultra HD Blu-ray which will be able to provide you a true cinematic experience while watching movies at home. Now if you are interested in Ultra HD Blu-ray, just go on and you will find a lot of useful information.

Part 1. What is 4K UHD Blu-ray?

Before beginning to enjoy 4K UHD Blu-ray, you have to know the general idea of it. But What is 4K UHD Blu-ray? actually you can refer to our another tutorial about 4K for detailed explaintion. But Generally speaking, Ultra HD Blu-ray is a digital optical disc data storage format which is superior to Blu-ray. 4K UHD Blu-ray supports 4K UHD (3840 × 2160 resolution) video at frame rates up to 60 frames per second. Until now, 4K UHD Blu-ray has the best possible picture and sound quality. But on the other hand, 4K UHD Blu-ray videos are not compatible with the current Blu-ray players. Therefore, in order to play 4K UHD Blu-ray, you have to prepare the professional 4K UHD Blu-ray players. Well, you can't help asking, what are the best 4K UHD Blu-ray players? How to choose an appropriate 4K UHD Blu-ray players? Next, I will introduce the best 4K UHD Blu-ray players for your future references. Just refer to the following.

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Part 2: Top 5 Best 4K UHD Blu-ray players

NO. 1 Panasonic DMP-UB700

Among the list of top 5 best 4K UHD Blu-ray players, the first 4K UHD Blu-ray player is Panasonic DMP-UB700. With its outstanding picture performance and Hi-Res audio file playback, Panasonic DMP-UB700 has won many 4K UHD Blu-ray lovers' passion. With HDR-enabled 4K Netflix, it also supports streaming service and it is worth buying while concerning its price and performance comprehensively.

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NO. 2 Oppo UDP-203

Then you can also refer to a more expensive UHD Blu-ray player -- Oppo UDP-203. With fantastic image quality, it supports numerous formats, including niche SACD. What's more, it also supports the premium Dolby Vision HDR standard. However, though with such a high price, it doesn't support for streaming services.

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No. 3 Sony UBP-X800

Another one of the best 4K UHD Blu-ray players on the list is Sony UBP-X800. Besides the superior picture quality, it can also support SACD, DVD-A and Hi-Res audio formats due to its advanced music player features. But this 4K UHD Blu-ray player doesn't support Dolby Vision. If you are pursuing a more fabulous audio quality, then it could be your first choice.

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No. 4 Panasonic DMP-UB900

Compared to Panasonic DMP-UB700, Panasonic DMP-UB900 supports solid file playback as well as 4K iterations of Netflix and Amazon Instant Video. With it, you can bring the 4K cinema experience home with its superb audio CD quality. But its UI is not perfect.

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No. 5 Samsung UBD-M9500

Last one of the best 4K UHD Blu-ray players on PC on the recommendation list will be Samsung UBD-M9500. With good picture quality and great multimedia features, Samsung UBD-M9500 didn't carry any sort of built-in display. As one the earliest 4K UHD Blu-ray players, it was running well on its trail way. But now it lacks innovation and it doesn't support 3D and Dolby Vision.

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Part 3: Best free 4k UHD Blu-ray player software on PC

Besides the above best 4K UHD Blu-ray players, you can have a try on some free 4K UHD Blu-ray players instead. Here I will strongly recommend you to try Leawo Blu-ray Player. As a 100% free and 6-in-1 media player software, Leawo Blu-ray Player contains all media playback solutions you need for your leisure entertainment, including 4K, Blu-ray, DVD, CD, HD (4K), MPEG, WMV and so on.

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Leawo Free Blu-ray Player 

☉ 100% free movie player for Mac users to play Ultra HD 4K, 1080P and 720P video for free.

☉ Free Blu-ray disc player to play 4K Blu-ray disc and 1080P Blu-ray disc, regardless of disc protection and region code.

☉ Support multiple audio decoding systems like Dolby, DTS, AAC, TrueHD, DTS-HD, etc.

☉ Adjust subtitles, video and audio during media playback.

With advanced image and audio processing technology, Leawo Blu-ray Player provides you extraordinary movie playback and cinema-like experience. Furthermore, In the lateset update, 4K UHD Blu-ray disc playback is added to the program, which makes the software as powerful as a real UHD Blu-ray player. In the following, I will list the detailed tutorial.

Step 1. Download Leawo Blu-ray Player and install it.

Step 2. Enter the main interface and load the 4K video on the computer by clicking the "Open File" button on the home interface. When you have imported the 4K video, then you can see it on the playlist.

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Step 3. After loading the 4K video, it will be played automatically. During the playback, you can move mouse to the title area. Then you could see 4 icons.

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Step 4. Then select the first icon and a pop-up window for subtitles setting will appear which includes "Enable subtitles", "Subtitle offset", "Subtitle selecting", "Browse for subtitle".

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Step 5. Set video and audio parameters. The video and audio setting process is as the same as subtitle settings. Click the second icon and the third icon in the title area to set video parameters and audio parameters respectively. The editing features of Leawo Blu-ray Player could allow you to obtain a customized video and will give you more special watching experience.

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With powerful 4K UHD Blu-ray players at hand, I believe you will not worry about how to watch UHD Blu-ray discs any more. Especially, with the help of free Leawo Blu-ray Player, you can enjoy the fantastic cinema-like movie watching experience.