Sharp BDHP35U Blu-ray Disc Player, Black

• Play back 3D Blu-ray Discs in Full HD 1080p resolution, or upscale your DVDs to a new level of detail
• Access online BD Live bonus content as well as the latest from CinemaNow, Netflix, Vudu, YouTube, and Pandora
• Enjoy music, video, and image files from USB thumb drives and networked DLNA-certified devices
• Includes Sharp Wi-Fi adapter for a quick and easy wireless network connection
• High-definition, multi-channel audio with decoding of Dolby Digital TrueHD and DTS Master Audio
• 3D BLU RAY player, Wireless
• Divix HD, Iphone & Ipad control

The Sharp HE BDHP35U DVD BluRay Player works great coupled with my SHARP HDTV 46" LE810UN. Previous to getting this player, we were using a PS2 as our DVD player. I could have probably got a BluRay player for less but the integration with my existing SHARP TV was my main criteria and I was willing to pay a little extra for it. If your TV is compatible with AQUOS LINK (which mine is), you can control both the TV and the player with simple operations. I am able to perform simple functions of the TV with the player's remote and functions of the player with the TV's remote. When the playback on the player is started the TV automatically knows the input without having to specify the input (which I would normally have to do with our game consoles PS2 and Wii). When the player is stopped, turning off the TV automatically turns off the player too. When you switch to the LCD TV input terminal connected to this player, the power of this player will be turned on automatically. The image quality is wonderful on up-converted standard DVDs. I recently watched the BluRay "Gnomeo and Juliet" with the kids and the picture quality with this player on my Sharp 46" was nothing short of incredible! With the AQUOS LINK, images are automatically adjusted to the most suitable image quality for the AQUOS TV. So far I am really happy with this player and the integration with my SHARP TV. The eject seems a bit slow as does the load time of DVDs, but nothing that is completely intolerable. Note: the manual is clear that there may be firmware updates on Sharp's product page, which there are, which will improve playback of discs and Netflix. Normally I go with Amazon, but I purchased this from Abt Electronics because they had the best price at the time.

Pros: Excellent Image Quality, Easy Set-Up, Seamless Integration with Sharp TVs, Backwards Compatible DVD Up-conversion, Wireless Internet via included dongle that plugs in the back.

Cons: A bit pricey compared to other BluRay players out there, but it does include the wireless dongle, and is 3D capable (which I don't care about).

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I bought this on sale at Fry's. What a mistake. For very basic BluRay discs, it does a fair job of playing them (hence the nominal 2 stars). The interface looks like it was designed in the early 80's, and many discs simply won't play properly on it. Example: Iron Man (first one) about halfway through, it simply freezes. You will wait and wait and you'll get like 3 frames in 5 minutes. Finally, you stop the disc and eventually you get the atrocious interface back. I thought it was the disc, but returned the disc to the store and the exact same thing happened with a new copy of the disc. Other friends have the same disc plays fine on their players.

Oh, and try to update the firmware that'll fix it, right? Not so fast partner! If you try to do a network update, it lies to you and says you're up to date. Go to the website and you see your firmware is way out of date. Go through the retentive and stupid USB flash update, it gets about 10% through and it tells you the update has failed. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Oh, and did I mention that the login for both Netflix and YouTube doesn't work? When you try to access the text input box for Netflix, you can't select the text up-down-left-right don't select the alpha characters, they select the interface behind that dialog box. So, Netflix is worthless. For YouTube login, you can activate both the username and password dialogs, but it refuses the OK button for the login button.

One more thing the product is supposed to support BD-Live. It does sorta. However, if you utilize the wireless connection it won't work unless you have a freshly formatted USB flash drive inserted where it can store content (there's NO internal storage). Try finding that detail in the manual. Give up? Good 'cause IT'S NOT THERE!

I haven't bought a Sharp product since the early 1990's (a crappy VCR as I recall). Maybe I'll try them again in another 20 years this one's going back!

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If you only play discs with this player, you'll have no serious problems, only that it might be a bit slow to react.

If you want to connect it to a wireless home network, you'll face the most unfriendly interface I have ever encountered. Very non intuitive.

Here's a tip: When you get to the screen where you must enter your network password, make sure that box is highlighted and then press enter (that's right, you must press enter before you can enter anything). A sort of very complicated set of letters/numbers will appear. You must scroll to each character, press enter, then move to the next one you want to enter. It's long and unpleasant.

After that, you can access Netflix, Vudu and Youtube without too much trouble. Getting out of Netflix is not easy, I always have to wait a long time or turn off the player. After you've used the online features, the player gets really mixed up and doesn't respond to the disc functions, so you have to cycle it (power off-on).

Two more things: at first it kept telling me that the LAN adapter was not inserted although it was. I kept inserting it and cycling until it did recognize it. And the last thing is don't forget to update the firmware as soon as you manage to get on your home network. Maybe by the time you read this there will be a firmware update that will solve some of the problems.

It's not a very good device, but for the price, I'll keep it until a really better model comes out. Like many, I have a Sharp TV I'm happy with and I appreciate being able to control it with the Blu-ray player remote.

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We got this blu-ray player as a freebie with our purchase of a Sharp AQOUS 60" LED TV. The set up is easy, the picture is outstanding and whatever problems others have mentioned with playing BR disks has not occurred with our BR player. Nothing but good to say about it, not to mention it was FREE.

I bought a Sharp LC60LE835U 60" a few months ago & wanted a Sharp Bluray player to help unlock its potential. I researched the Bluray players Sharp currently makes on their website & found that there is a large price range ($99-$500). Despite the variance in price, I could not discern a difference in performance or features, save the one that includes a 5.1 audio system. They have the same applications, file compatibilities, wireless, connection options, etc. So, after comparing them all side by side for a few days on both Amazon & Sharpusa.com, I decided to get the second cheapest one ($125). If it could do all the same things as the more expensive ones, why not?

I'll tell you my guess as to why not after owning it for a few weeks now. It is slow & glitchy. It does what it is advertised as doing, but it goes about it at a maddeningly slow pace. If you want to watch Netflix, no real problems. Works pretty great for Netflix & Bluray discs (aside from very poor info options & controls). If you want to use Youtube or any of the Vudu applications, be patient. They load slow & sometimes don't load. If they don't load, it usually means I have a frozen player on my hands & I have to reset it by holding the power button on the player. This happens maybe 40% of the time (excluding Netflix). The options for typing if you need to search something are archaic. It looks & feels like you're working with a computer system from the late 80s. The Youtube one is the worst; absolutely wretched. If you want to maximize a video, for instance, you press a button for that option to appear & you'd better select it fast or it fades away. But don't overshoot the buttons when you want to select them or your cursor disappears off screen. It does not go from the far right item to the far left as is standard with this kind of thing; it just disappears & does not come back if you press the opposite arrow. You just have to wait for the options to fade & restart the process. It's made worse by the fact that the response of the player to your commands is rarely immediate. So, you may press an arrow for it to go right & it doesn't go, so you press it again. Before you know it, the item selection travels off screen again because you pressed it too many times thinking that it just didn't get the command (which is sometimes the case too).

Very disappointing product. If it worked as well as my Sharp TV, I'm sure I'd be much happier.