Excerpt: Sharp's budget AQUOS BDHP21X Blu-ray player has good looks and performs well. However, there are competing entry-level Blu-ray players that offer more bang for your buck.
Pros: Good Blu-ray movie playing quality, good DVD upscaling, nice design
Excerpt: The Sharp BD-HP21U packs lots of metal - literally. It's a large and heavy Blu-ray Disc player, so much so that you could mistake it for an old Laserdisc player.
Excerpt: While the likes of Sony, Panasonic and Pioneer have been adding to the Blu-ray player population at quite a steady rate, it's fair to say that Sharp 's players are yet to
Pros: Decent Blu-ray and DVD picture quality
Cons: Decent picture quality isn’t enough in this company, low feature-count, sounds bright
Conclusion: For all its flaws though, the Sharp delivers some very satisfying Blu-ray pictures, with bucketloads of detail, vivid colours and a general lack of video artefacts.
Pros: Quick start mode, solid HD pictures
Cons: No BD Live support, lacks DivX, MP3 and WMA playback, no DTS HD Master Audio decoding, no multichannel analogue outputs, dull design