6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
No muss, No fuss Blu-Ray player,
April 23, 2009 datarush (Atwater, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sherwood BDP-5003 Blu-Ray Disc Player (Electronics)
I buy and rent movies, usually now on Blu-Ray disc. Usually all I want to do is watch the movie and perhaps a few of the extras. For that mission a player such as the Sherwood BDP-5003 is perfect. It puts out an excellent video and audio signals on the HDMI connnector, and since my AVR can decode Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD I'm all set. I'm very pleased with this purchase.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Sherwood Blu-ray DVD player review,
June 8, 2009 Anthony V. Lauro "inyouendo" (Staten Island, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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A very good price for a Blu-ray DVD player. Does not have all the bells and whistles of higher end models but, it serves my purpose fine.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Good Blu-Ray Player, Misleading Specifications,
April 30, 2009 Michael W. DaBose "Mike D" (Kissimmee, FL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sherwood BDP-5003 Blu-Ray Disc Player (Electronics)
I purchased this player elsewhere (suprising I beat Amazon prices). Playback is good and clear. Unlike the box and specifications, this player does NOT have any built in decoders - Dolby TrueHD, DTS Master Audio, or Dolby / DTS anything. The support referred to is the ability to send the encoded signal, via HDMI only, to a receiver with the decoders built in to perform the actual decoding of the signal. If your receiver does not have an HDMI port, or is "pass through" only, this will not work. Note that I am using optical audio and the signal processing supposedly only for HDMI seems to work with this option - contrary to the manual?? - basically PCM 96K, downsampled 48K, or re-encoded DTS.
Overall a good basic (kitchen, secondary use) player with very good 1080p picture. I consider the advertising / specification misleading / false advertising. If the box / specifications states, as this Sherwood Blu-Ray player does, it is DTS Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD, only to find out in...Read more
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