[1] The first Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs were officially released in the United States on February 14, 2016.

[12] Ultra HD Blu-ray technology was licensed in mid-2015, and players had an expected release date of Christmas 2015.

Ultra HD Blu-Ray discs also support a 12-bit per color container via Dolby Vision.

[18] Moreover, Dolby Vision makes use of dynamic metadata, which adjusts the brightness and tone mapping per scene.

In contrast, standard HDR10 only makes use of static metadata, which sets the same brightness and tone mapping for the entirety of the content.

Broadcasters just need to produce a single feed, and the technology allows content to be converted into a format for both legacy screens and HDR screens.”[24][25] Only computers with activated Software Guard Extensions (SGX) support Ultra HD Blu-ray playback.

Intel introduced SGX in the Skylake generation Core processors in 2016, enabling PCs to play protected Blu-ray discs for the first time.

In January 2022, Intel deprecated support for SGX for the Rocket Lake and Alder Lake generation desktop processors, leading to Ultra HD Blu-ray discs being unplayable on those systems, even with licensed software such as PowerDVD.