3 Best 4K Blu-ray Player for Mac (macOS High Sierra included)

A lot of users are looking for a Best 4K Blu-ray Player for Mac so that they can enjoy Blu-ray movies on Mac freely. However, the trouble is that currently Mac can not afford Blu-ray movies because Apple does not support Blu-ray discs natively playback, even if an external Blu-ray drive is equipped. Then how can we watch Blu-ray on Mac? In this article, we will list top 3 Blu-ray Player software for Mac with detailed reviews so that you can pick one. (Click Here to find Best Blu-ray Player for PC)

Since Mac can not play Blu-ray movies with Quick Time or other media players from the original source, a powerful Blu-ray Player is needed. While before introducing the top Blu-ray Players, we'd like to talks about external, USB Blu-ray drive first.

The first step to be able to play Blu-rays on a Mac is to purchase a Blu-ray drive. Here to share with you some reviews about some Blu-ray Drive.

1. Pioneer BDR-XD05B

Pioneer BDR-XD05B is the lightest and most compact Blu-ray drive we tested, it was the fastest at burning and ripping DVDs, and it comes with a USB 3.0 Y-cable, which is handy if your computer can't power the drive from one port. The Pioneer is slower to rip Blu-rays than competing drives and a bit noisier, though.

2. LG WP50NB40

If you have a big Blu-ray collection to digitize and only rarely use DVDs, or if our Pioneer Blu-ray pick spikes in price, get the LG WP50NB40 instead.

After picking a suitable Blu-ray Drive, You'll also need software to watch your Blu-ray movies. Below 3 Best 4K Blu-ray Player for Mac (macOS High Sierra included) list will give you some clues.

Top 3 Blu-ray movie Player for Mac

No.1-Brorsoft Video (Blu-ray Player) for Mac

It is designed to play all Blu-ray Discs, Blu-ray ISO files, or Blu-ray (BDMV) folders with high quality on all Mac computer - MacOS X(10.12 included) Sierra, Mountain Lion, Snow Leopard, Mavericks, El Capitan etc.

With it, users can watch Blu-ray/DVD disc in lossless quality, regardless of disc protection and region code, as well as 3D videos and the 4K/5K/8K Ultra HD video like 4K MP4, and 4K MKV, 1080P Full HD video like HD MP4, HD MKV, HD AVI, HD TS, HD VOB, etc., 720P HD video and SD video like MP4, MKV, AVI, FLV, etc.

Note: If you are a PC user, pls turn to Blu-ray Player for Windows version (XP/7/8/10 included)

Now, download and Launch this Blu-ray 8K Player on Mac to experience outstanding playback features.

After running the program on the Mac, Click arrow button to get the popup playing menu, and tap "Open Bluray" to load the Blu-ray video you want to play into it after inserting the Blu-ray disc into the Mac external Blu-ray Drive. Then, it will begin playing without any delay.

Additional Tip:

This powerful Blu-ray Player also supplies other options during playback process.

>>Add Bookmarks to the Video for Recent Playing Point
>>Capture Screenshot of Every Moment You Want in the Video
>>Equiped with Video recording Function for Tutorials and Screencasts
>>Automatically Loop to Play Single or Section of the Video you Love for repeating

No.2-VLC Media Player

VLC 2.0 or later version supports the Blu-ray playback with some extra operations. To install the Blu-ray plug-ins, you always need to follow the guide as follow, after getting the necessary files from http://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/

1. KEYS Database
Mac OS: put it in ~/Library/Preferences/aacs/ (create it if it does not exist)
2. AACS Dynamic Library
Mac OS: right-click on VLC, choose "Show package contents" and put that file in Contents/MacOS/lib/

Although VLC released a plugin for playing Blu-ray movies, to install VLC on Mac for playing Blu-ray is much complex for regular users. In other words, it is not a best way to watch Blu-ray movies via VLC.

No.3-Macgo Mac Blu-ray Player

Macgo Mac Blu-ray Player can play all commercial and non-commercial blu-ray discs, folders and ISO files in different regions on Mac and PC, as well as on iOS devices, such as iPhone / iPad / iPad mini / iPod touch (iTouch). It is powerful enough to support almost all kinds of video, audio, photo formats. However, it's a pity that this software doesn't support 3D Blu-ray movie.