Ultra HD 4K Blu-rays have the best picture quality possible for your 4K TV, even better than streaming 4K from Netflix or Amazon. Even better, many discs have high dynamic range (HDR) and wide color gamut (WCG) content, which provide a much more noticeable improvement than 4K resolution, provided your TV can deliver it.
What do you need to watch a UHD Blu-ray
Sadly, Ultra HD discs won't play on a normal Blu-ray player, though you can play older Blu-ray discs on an Ultra HD player. In order to get a true 4K experience, remember that you'll need an Ultra HD Blu-ray player, an Ultra HD TV and some discs, obviously. There are a few important caveats, though.
First, you'll need to make sure your TV supports at least the HDMI 2.0 standard. Most TVs from the last year or so will, but very cheap models and some models from 2014 or earlier might not. Check your manual or Google the model number to find out - the even newer HDMI 2.1 standard should also be fine.
If you don't have a 4K TV, your 4K Blu-ray player will still work, but it will only display images in 1080p. Buy a regular Blu-ray instead of a 4K version and it will still play in 3840 X 2160 resolution, but it won't be a native 4K image and will be noticeably different than had you used an Ultra HD Blu-ray.
There's no denying Ultra HD Blu-ray and 4K TVs are luxuries, but they're luxuries worth having. And if you want the absolute best possible picture from your 4K TV, Ultra HD Blu-ray is where you'll find it.
"But I hate physical discs," you say. I hear you. But for people who want peak image quality, a disc is still one way to go. What if you have no 4K Blu-ray Player or have no plan to buy one? The other way is to use a Blu-ray ripping tool to rip/convert 4K UHD Blu-ray to digital files for streaming to 4K TV without needing a 4K Blu-ray player.
Best UHD 4K Blu-ray Ripper - Pavtube ByteCopy
In fact, there are many Blu-ray ripping tools on the market that can deal with common Blu-ray discs. However, when it comes to dealing with 4K Blu-ray discs, many Blu-ray rippers fail to rip it cause a 4K Blu-ray has higher and stricter encyption and normal Blu-ray decrypter cannot bypass all the copyright protection. But you are lucky today, I will highly recommend you Pavtube ByteCopy (available for Windows and Mac users) which can rip, convert, and copy 4k Blu-ray discs seamlessly and losslessly.
The UHD 4K Blu-ray Ripper Output Options
- Directly Copy UHD 4K Blu-ray Disc
A 4K Blu-ray disc will be 50GB - 100GB. Full copy 4K Blu-ray disc to hard drive will take too much space. Pavtube ByteCopy can directly extract main title of the 4K Blu-ray without preserving other extras. Besides, you can also use the UHD Blu-ray Ripper to entire copy the 4K Blu-ray disc to a folder devided into BDMV folder and CERTIFICATE folder, making an exact copy, indistinguishable from the original. This way can contain the reviews, ads, subtitles, extras and other everything in the 4K Blu-ray disc, no any loss. - Lossless Copy 4K Blu-ray to Popular Video Formats
Enables you to rip and convert 4K Blu-ray discs to popular video formats like MP4, MOV, M4V, AVI, MKV, MKV, FLV, M3U8, etc for playback on iDevice, Android devices, game console, PC, Mac, and editing software. Apart from as a 4K Blu-ray converter, it even can create 3D SBS/TB/Anaglyph MP4, 3D MKV, 3D WMV for Daydream View, PS VR, Gear VR, VR Box 2.0, Oculus Rift CV1, Oculus Rift DK2, HTC Vive, etc. What's more, Pavtube ByteCopy can rip 4K Blu-ray to HEVC MKV, H.265 MP4 keeping 4K resolution. - Keep Multiple Audio/Subtitle tracks
Normally, Blu-ray contains DTS, AAC, Linear PCM (LPCM), Dolby Digital (DD), Dolby Digital Plus (DD+), Dolby TrueHD, DTS Digital Surround, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio, DTS-HD Master Audio. The best 4K Blu-ray Ripper can allow you to rip 4K Blu-ray keeping DTS-HD Master Audio, DTS Digital Surround, etc audio. - Customize 4K Blu-ray Movie Parameters
Allows you to adjust video parameters like video audio codec, frame rate, bit rate, resolution, sample rate, channels according to your needs. This feature-rich software also work as a proferssional video editor. With it, you can trim BD movies length, add external subtitles to it, replace or mute audio, and more.
Quick Guide to Convert UHD Blu-ray Movies
Step 1. Load UHD BD with this program
Install the best UHD Blu-ray ripper on PC. then open it, click the "Load from Disc" icon to import the UHD Blu-ray Disc. You also can load the BDMV folder by choosing the "Load from folder" from the dropdown list of "File", of course, you also can choose to load the ISO images too.
Step 2. Choose output format according to your own needs
Click "Format" bar, you will see hundreds of video formats here. You can navigate to "HD Video" and select "H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)". Or you can choose other formats as you like.
Tips: For those people who want to preserve multiple video/audio tracks you can navigate to "Multi-track Video" > "Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV(*.mkv)" for output. You can get lossless audio streams without transcoding. At the video setting windows, you also can choose the chapters, audio tracks, and subtitles.
Click the Setting button and adjust the video. Here you can rip Blu-ray with Dolby 5.1/7.1 tracks, open "Multi-task Settings" window, click "Audio" tab, check "Encode" to get encoded MKV files with Dolby Digital 5.1/7.1 audio saved. In this way, you also can rip Blu-ray with original DTS-HD Master audio track.
Step 3. Adjust video parameters
If you have defined the output format, then click the "Settings", here you can adjust vdieo parameters like: video/audio codecs, bitrates, frame rates, channels, etc.
Step 4. Start the UHD Blu-ray conversion
After all settings are done. Return back to main interface, and click convert, it will begin to copy your UHD Blu-ray movies. Wait for a while, when it is over, click Open, and it will pop up a folder with generated files. Now you can transfer the covnerted movies to your target devices for watching on the go.
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