Sharp BD-HP20U

43% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Top-notch picture and audio quality ; Turns on practically immediately

No Divx support

But that's complaining about small stuff. Where it really counts, this is one great Blu-ray Disc player

Quick-Start feature speeds player start-up time.

Very slow at starting playback. Poky menu navigation. Clips detail over HDMI. Poor video processing with interlaced material. No indicator for 24-Hz video output.

This Blu-ray player's quick start-up time doesn't make up for its overall sluggishness and inadequate performance.

Quick-Start feature speeds player start-up time.

Very slow at starting playback. Poky menu navigation. Clips detail over HDMI. Poor video processing with interlaced material. No indicator for 24-Hz video output.

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Quick Start mode begs the question: Why do other Blu-ray players take so freakin’ long to load movies? Upscales old-fangled DVDs to 1080p. Supports Dolby TrueHD for lossless digital audio. The remote can also control a Sharp Aquos TV; one less clicker...

Silvery façade kinda fugly. No support for DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks. (The other lossless-audio white meat.) Quick Start mode disabled out of the box-WTF?. Non-backlit remote scores negative one-million on the style meter. 0 for a DVD player-any...

The Sharp BD-HP20U's Quick Start feature loads certain discs superfast; excellent video quality using 1080p/24 output.

The Sharp BD-HP20U only supports Blu-ray profile 1.0; no onboard decoding for high-resolution DTS soundtracks or bit-stream output; poor 1080i deinterlacing on Blu-ray movies; no Ethernet port for firmware updates; poor performance with video-based...

The Sharp BD-HP20U is a decent Blu-ray player that can load some discs superfast, but there are better options out there.

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Sharp’s first foray into the land of Blu-ray is excellent in many respects, especially the Quick Start feature and the friendly remote, but it falls short in others. Of most concern to me was the slightly reddish skin tones and the dramatic degradation...

As a standard definition DVD player, the BD-HP20U is adequate but not exceptional. Although picture quality looked fine when playing a few episodes from Boston Legal's third season, the BD-HP20U struggled with a few tests on Silicon Optix's HQV...