Sharp BDHP35U Blu-ray Disc Player, Black

 (18 customer reviews)

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...Read more

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 Go to the website and you see your firmware is way out of date.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...Read more

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.