The 4K Ultra Blu-ray format supports 4K resolution video, with a frame rate of up to 60 frames per second.
Each disc can carry up to 50 GB (Dual Layer) or 100 GB (Triple Layer), and like the Blu-ray Disc, as well as up to 32 audio tracks, and a whopping 255 subtitle tracks.
The audio quality for 4K Ultra Blu-ray Discs can either be Dolby Digital, LPCM, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-ES, or best of all, DTS-HD Master Audio, which is used on all movies played in theaters by today's standards.
There is no regional lockout on 4K Ultra Blu-ray Discs.
Commercial titles from four of the Big Six major film studios began sales of 4K Ultra Blu-ray Discs on March 1, 2016. They were Sony Pictures, Lionsgate, Warner Bros., and 20th Century Fox. Paramount followed on June 14, 2016, then Universal Pictures on August 9, 2016, and finally, Walt Disney on August 22, 2017.
With 4K Ultra Blu-ray titles hitting stores as of 2016, DVDs are expected to decline in sales. However, they still continue to appear in many stores today.
Titles released on 4K Ultra Blu-ray[]
As of May 11, 2021, 78 out of 150 movies (52%) have been released on 4K Ultra Blu-ray.
 The Smurfs 2 (March 1, 2016) |
 The Lego Movie (March 1, 2016) |
 The Peanuts Movie (March 8, 2016) |
 The Angry Birds Movie (August 16, 2016) | ||||||||
 Ice Age: Collision Course (October 11, 2016) |
 The Secret Life of Pets (December 6, 2016) |
 Storks (December 20, 2016) |
 Sing (March 21, 2017) | ||||||||
 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (March 28, 2017) |
 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (March 28, 2017) |
 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (March 28, 2017) |
 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (March 28, 2017) | ||||||||
 The Smurfs (March 28, 2017) |
 The Lego Batman Movie (June 13, 2017) |
 Smurfs: The Lost Village (July 11, 2017) |
 Minions (September 5, 2017) | ||||||||
 How the Grinch Stole Christmas (October 17, 2017) |
 The Emoji Movie (October 24, 2017) |
 Cars 3 (November 7, 2017) | |||||||||
 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (November 7, 2017) |
 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (November 7, 2017) |
 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (November 7, 2017) |
 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (November 7, 2017) | ||||||||
 Despicable Me (December 5, 2017) |
 Despicable Me 2 (December 5, 2017) |
 Despicable Me 3 (December 5, 2017) | |||||||||
 The Lego Ninjago Movie (December 19, 2017) |
 Coco (February 27, 2018) |
 Ferdinand (March 13, 2018) |
 The Incredibles (June 5, 2018) | ||||||||
 Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (October 9, 2018) |
 Incredibles 2 (November 6, 2018) |
 Wreck-It Ralph (November 6, 2018) |
 The Lion King (December 4, 2018) | ||||||||
 Smallfoot (December 11, 2018) |
 The Grinch (February 5, 2019) |
 Ralph Breaks the Internet (February 26, 2019) |
 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (March 19, 2019) | ||||||||
 The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (May 7, 2019) |
 Toy Story (June 4, 2019) |
 Toy Story 2 (June 4, 2019) |
 Toy Story 3 (June 4, 2019) | ||||||||
 The Secret Life of Pets 2 (August 27, 2019) |
 Aladdin (September 10, 2019) |
 Finding Nemo (September 10, 2019) |
 Cars (September 10, 2019) | ||||||||
 Ratatouille (September 10, 2019) |
 Cars 2 (September 10, 2019) |
 Brave (September 10, 2019) |
 Inside Out (September 10, 2019) | ||||||||
 The Good Dinosaur (September 10, 2019) |
 Finding Dory (September 10, 2019) |
 Toy Story 4 (October 8, 2019) |
 The Wizard of Oz (October 29, 2019) | ||||||||
 Zootopia (November 5, 2019) |
 Moana (November 5, 2019) |
 Big Hero 6 (November 5, 2019) |
 Tangled (November 5, 2019) | ||||||||
 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (November 12, 2019) |
 Frozen II (February 25, 2020) |
 A Bug's Life (March 3, 2020) |
 Monsters, Inc. (March 3, 2020) | ||||||||
 Monsters University (March 3, 2020) |
 WALL-E (March 3, 2020) |
 Up (March 3, 2020) | |||||||||
 Beauty and the Beast (March 10, 2020) |
 Mulan (November 10, 2020) |
 Shrek (May 11, 2021) | |||||||||
Every Disney animated feature from The Princess and the Frog to Ralph Breaks the Internet has been released in 4K UHD as of November 5, 2019.
Pixar has released all of its movies to date in 4K UHD as of March 3, 2020.
The last ever 4K Ultra Blu-ray release was Shrek 2, on November 22, 2022, being the only film to ever get such a release within that year.