Projectors Reviews, price and comparision

You don't always get what you pay. Sometimes, an expensive device can be less expensive overshadowed by competitors. $299.99 (List) is the sharp BD-HP35U 3D-fähigen certainly price a premium Blu-ray player. It has even the stylish chassis of a premium Blu-ray player. Unfortunately, its shiny surface and hefty price tag are some problems making pale the player $200 compared to competitors.

Design
The front of 2.0-by-15.9-by-7.8 inches (HWD), is 5.1 pounds flat, black and shiny. A ring of blue LEDs in the middle and a small LCD on the left side of front panel lights for the BD HP35U serve as notification. The disc tray is from the right side of the front panel. Power, tray open / close and "Playback Control" sit on the top of the left edge of the area, so that you get some control without the remote control. Finally, a USB port under the buttons are there, ready, a flash drive or the to accept Wi-Fi dongle. The outputs on the back of the player are barebones: are HDMI and optical audio outputs only, a second USB port and an Ethernet jack. It is strange, a Blu-ray player without any you will find art analog output as video component under. The second USB port is important, because the BD HP35U no onboard memory; If you want to access BD-live functions without an Ethernet connection, you must both ports, one for a USB flash drive and the other for the Wi-Fi dongle. This dongle: While the player not with integrated Wi-Fi, is the small dongle, the Wi-Fi networking enables bundled. It rectangle that fits the player's front USB port without jutting undemanding a small plastic is too much.

The 6.6 inch remote control is simple and functional, with no bells, whistles or wasted buttons. While the playback buttons feel a bit small navigation pads are easily the number to see the thumb and a separate option box column (power, input, volume and channel) TV HDTV access basic functions, if the display is HDMI-CEC compatible. This type of control can with sharp HDMI-CEC enabled LC 60LE835U ($ 2,799.99, 3.5 star) 60-inch HDTV be sure, that shares the BD HP35U 3D features.

The BD-HP35U is on the screen surface rough and unattractive. It offers very little in the way of graphical flourishes or animations and only a handful of sparse symbols of different against the hard, blocky text which add menus. The menu system looks more like a back-end service interface as a mechanic would enable, if fixing your cable box. Compared with the much more polished interfaces in Sony, Samsung, seen and Panasonic Blu-ray menu system only looks player, sharp's well, ugly.

Unfortunately the Web apps are limited, available to the player Access Netflix, Vudu, YouTube, CinemaNow, Pandora, and that's pretty much it. It is a small range in comparison with the services you find on the Sony BDP-S770 ($ 249.99, 3.5 star) or Samsung BD-C6500 ($ 249.99, 4 stars), for example.

Performance
According to our laboratory testing speed is the BD HP35U a very slow. As most Blu-ray devices a fast commissioning property is, the player boot faster and can be. Without the quick start up function is enabled took it on average 27.3 second switch on and go to the image in the main menu. The feature enabled it took about 3 seconds to start. However the function took the deck slower shut down, turn the player off and return to a full on / off switching cycle again about as much time as it needed to start without using the. Our older, not BD-live test-disc (Talladega Nights) took a respectable average of 16.6 seconds start. Our BD live test discs (predators and it always sunny in Philadelphia's season 5) took much more time. the Blu ray disc Disclaimer screen appeared on average 47 seconds, and the first video in the form of the Studio logo appeared trailer, sequence and FX network, on average 1 minute and 25.7 seconds. If you want to see a newer Blu-ray disc, you have time to get a cup of coffee after the close of the player tray. The Sony BDP-S770, is loaded on the other hand not BD-live discs in 15.5 seconds and BD-live discs in 29.7 seconds.

According to sharp, the BD-HC35U, the film can only process and output 1080p video at 24 frames per second (fps), the standard set. For this reason, the player is all our processing tests for 30 / 60 frames per second video motion failed. It still showed the video, and it was jerky and produced take in moving text and panning scenes. It performed very well in the film motion processing tests with 24 fps video, but when watching TV shows on Blu-ray (or any other video at 30 frames per second), the player shows his error. As far as media read 3D, 3D performance can be evaluated for a Blu-ray player. everything after that is dependent on the 3D display ability to show the image. The BD HC35U was unable to read the discs and to our test HDTV to send, so it passes this test at least the image.

The blue circle and smart design could make the look sharp BD-HC35U striking, but it is a mediocre Blu-ray player with a high price under the hood. An unattractive interface with some Web services, slow download speeds, and affect a bizarre mood with 30 fps video from that player's appeal. The $250 Sony BDP-S770 or the Vizio VBR W200 ($ 199.99, 3.5 star) reduce costs and provide better overall performance, more comfortable menu systems and considered a variety of Web applications.