Blu-ray is getting more and more popular for its large storage and excellent quality. Do you want to play Blu-ray on PC or HTPC like on Blu-ray DVD player? Unfortunately, for Sony’s licensing on Blu-ray, it is pretty difficult to play Blu-rays on laptop or in the living room on an HTPC with a Blu-ray drive, let alone enjoy Blu-ray movies with true HD video quality and the experience of navigating disc extras and menus, so, what you need is a powerful Blu-ray media player that’s up to the task. After searching and testing, I recommend the top 3 Blu-ray compatible media players as follow.
UFUSoft Blu-ray Player
UFUSoft Blu-ray Player lets you play any disc (in another player), regardless of its region code, and is one easy-to-use player software for windows 8/7/Vista/XP PC or HTPC. It can help users enjoy any Blu-ray movie (Retail BD disc included) with outstanding and perfect video quality at home. This amazing player can not only play Blu-ray Disc, but also support Blu-ray folder and ISO image files. UFUSoft Blu-ray Player is also capable of playing popular video files. Users can enjoy videos in HD video, AVCHD video, MTS, M2TS, MXF, TS, TRP, MKV, MPEG, FLV, WMV, and MP4, etc. formats. The price for this UFUSoft Blu-ray Player is only $39.
VLC Player
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as Blu-ray, DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. Which plays most codecs with no codec packs needed:MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3… Runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix… Completely Free, 0 spyware, 0 ads and no user tracking. Can do media conversion and streaming player.
For the steps to play blu-ray on pc, laptop or htpc, just follow this guide.
CyberLink PowerDVD
PowerDVD is the number one choice for Blu-ray and DVD player software on PCs with 100 million copies sold annually. PowerDVD 12 plays all types of media content – Blu-ray and DVD movies, videos, photos and music, bringing the best-in-class media entertainment to your PC and mobile devices. With the award-winning TrueTheater technology, you can also play videos into eye-stunning HD and 3D quality. Power DVD comes in three flavors, Standard for $40, Deluxe for $56, and Ultra for $60.
Hope this helps you play Blu-ray movies on your PC, laptop or HTPC.
