How to Play Blu ray on PC

Blu-ray discs are high definition and optical disc formats designed to supersede the DVD format. They're increasingly becoming the more popular choice when it comes to movie watching, gaming, etc. That causes more and more film producers, game companies, consumer electronics and home computer manufacturers use Blu-ray technology to creat discs. Usually, we can use a blu ray player for blu ray playback on TV, or we can also use our computer by equipping it with blu ray player software to enjoy crisp, clean, home-theatre entertainment.

ArcSoft blu ray player software (http://www.arcsoft.com/totalmedia-theatre/) is a good one for you to choose from all kinds of blu ray softwares, not only because it is a powerful all-in-one media player for blu ray, videos, DVDs, and AVCHD, but also it has received Blu-ray 3D™ (Profile 5.0) Certification from the Blu-ray Disc Association since last year. TotalMedia Theatre supports playback of all three blu ray Disc video formats: MPEG-2, AVC, and VC1, which can perfectly meet all your requirment for a Blu-ray player software. In addition, this Blu-ray software is now optimized with Intel's Core Processor Family so users can enjoy smooth and sharp Blu-ray playback with uncompressed HD sound effects.It also supports playing 1080p Blu-ray.

How to play blu ray on PC? Let me take ArcSoft blu ray player software for example to show you just 3 steps to make it happen.

1. Insert Blu-ray discr
Please make sure you already have a blu ray player for your computer. Install and launch ArcSoft blu ray player software (http://www.arcsoft.com/totalmedia-theatre/). Insert your blu ray disc, and the application will start to playback the disc automatically. Quite easy! Or you can also click the "Open" button on top of the control panel to open the video file manually.

2. Use pop menur
If you'd like to know detailed information about the currently playing disc, you can display the pop menu icon located on the bottom of the control panel. You can use this embedded menu to customize the movie playback. For example, select the "Chapters" option to display thumbnails of the movie chapters. Click on the chapter you want to watch, the playback will directly skip to that position.

3. Use right-click menur
If you'd like to utilize all functions and change settings for the currently playing disc, you can right-click screen of the media player to display the right-click menu. You can use "Titles" to select a specific title, "Chapters" to select a specific chapter, "Audio" to display the available audio options for the current media, or "Subtitle" to display the available subtitles or add subtitle files for the current media. There are also many other helpful options such as Secondary Video, Angle, Closed Caption, Still Off (Continue), Repeat, Aspect Ratio and more.

Now, you know how to play blu ray, start to enjoy your splendid visual feast!