What player to buy...

[Leon Liew]

I am always very baffled of other makes of BD players like Sony,Samsung Panasonic whereby there are alot of grouses on the need to have firmware upgrade in order to watch this or that BD title.

Practically non-existent for Sharp BD-HP20 player. My Sharp play all titles
that I bought so far. Initially I was thinking of the Sony or Samsung models
or even the super duper expensive Pioneer(actually my favourite brand-loved their DVD players) but finally chose the Sharp based on price factor and it's
really performing well.

But on reflection perhaps the Sharp is basically a straight forward player,
what we termed as 'bare-bones' and me being not fussy about viewing
PIP bla..bla then I guess it's fine.Maybe the coming BD-HP50 should provide
a challenge on these firmware issues being their 2nd gen model when launched, this has yet to be seen.

My ultimate goal will still be a Pioneer BD player and that's when I go for
total upgrade on A/V amp and HDTV to really enjoy the HD audio/video
marvel.