Sharp BD-HP75U 3D Blu-ray Disc Player

 (5 customer reviews)

Owned an older Sharp BD player and generally was happy with it, but decided to upgrade for wireless N and better Netflix integration. Bought a BD-HP80U, and returned it - didn't work with 50% of the discs I played, and Netflix interface was....problematic, at best.

This unit is much better. Plays everything I've tried, loads much faster than my old unit, and Netflix interface works well.

I selected this DVD player based on favorable Amazon reviews. It was to replace an older LG player, whose network access problems became really unbearable.

This Sharp player, unfortunately, manages to be even worse. Possibly because it's at the low end of the product line, it's CPU is woefully underpowered. The interface is really, really slow to respond, and, to make it worse, the UI provides no acknowledgement of clicks on controller buttons. (*edit* sorry, it's not really the "low end of the product line" - I was confused. It's slow no matter what :-)

The player is supposed to have access to DLNA servers on the local network, but that seemed not to work at all (it would do nothing but complain about "not being able to connect to the network" even though I could clearly see it connected on my router, and it could get to Netflix and Youtube.)

The YouTube interface *looks* nicer than my older LG, but as far as I could tell it doesn't work at all. I...Read more

Excellent product and well packaged.
Tested fine, and has been playing 3D movies as advertised.
Thanks for a wonderful job done.