Sharp Blu Ray Player Price Comparison & Stock Checker
Sharp Blu-ray Players
Sharp is a leading manufacturer and retailer of consumer electronics and a big supporter of the Blu-ray standard for some time. The company was founded in 1912 in Japan and has grown to be one of the largest consumer electronics companies in the world. Sharp has been responsible for many innovations in consumer electronics and has introduced many leading edge products in their close to 100 year history. They were leading developers in LCD technology and carry that tradition into their current LCD display offerings. They currently sell some of the largest displays in the market and actually build panels for other manufacturers offerings as well. They are also leaders in the PV solar panel market and supply a large portion of the world’s need for this alternative energy staple. Their products in the Blu-ray DVD market are known for their ability to combine a great set of features with a very affordable price in a Sharp blu ray player. In most cases, you will find features on a Sharp blu ray player normally only found on much more expensive players from other manufacturers. This is following in Sharp’s tradition of providing outstanding value to consumers for all of their electronics needs.
Full HD resolution – A Sharp blu ray player offers the full HD experience that Blu-ray provides and gives you a choice of several formats to enjoy your content. A Sharp blu ray player supports a wide variety of resolutions including 420p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p to ensure you complete compatibility with any monitor or display you choose to use. Sharp blu ray players will also support a full HD picture for most larger displays that is cinema-quality in every respect. It also allows you to select between a 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ration as well as letterbox or pan-scan. With all of these choices, you will have no problems connecting your Sharp blu-ray player to whatever display or monitor you are currently using and be assured that it will be compatible with any upgrades you make to your video gear in the future.
HDMI 1.3 Support – Sharp blu-ray players support the HDMI specification and allow you to connect your new Sharp blu-ray player to your display with a single cable. This one cable provides both the video and audio streams to your display and makes connection easy. It will eliminate a lot of clutter behind your audio cabinet and enables other more advanced features on the Sharp blu-ray player like DVD up-scaling and the AQUOS Link function. The HDMI connection was designed to work perfectly for newer high definition playback and is the perfect connection to use if your monitor supports it.
Cinema-like quality – A Sharp blu ray player supports a full 1080p display at 24 fps, which is a very sophisticated feature. You need to be connected to your display through HDMI to use this format, but it guarantees an amazing picture quality. This frame rate is perfect for viewing HD content because it is the exact frame rate that the original file was mastered. Other Blu-ray players that can’t support this frame rate will need to convert the content to another resolution before displaying it, resulting in a reduced picture quality. Because a Sharp blu ray player can display this 1080p 24fps content directly, you get the clearest, sharpest picture possible. It is the same quality you are watching when you head out to your local cinema to enjoy a movie.
5.1 – channel analogue audio out – The Sharp blu-ray players have the ability to directly output 5.1 channel analog audio from the player. Most other players can send this to an external receiver to decode, but this requires you to have an expensive receiver. By having the Sharp blu ray player decode this audio and supply it directly from the deck, you can simply hook up a 5.1 channel speaker system to the back of the Sharp blu ray player and enjoy your movies.
AQUOS Link – This feature enables you to control other HDMI connected devices with a single remote. To use this feature on your Sharp blu ray player, you need to have these other components connected through HDMI. Once you make the connection, any HDMI CEC supported piece of audio or video gear can be controlled through a single remote. You can change volume setting, control all functions of the video playback as well as make adjustments to the picture quality. This also allows you to simplify the control of your media equipment and reducing clutter by eliminating the need for multiple remotes.
Quick Start Feature – The Sharp blu ray player has a Quick Start feature that allows you to insert a disc and start enjoying your content almost immediately. Most of the other players on the market require up to 45 seconds of load time for a disc to be ready to enjoy. The Sharp blu ray player will do this in less than 10 seconds and lets you get right to enjoying your movie.
Upconvert standard DVD – The Sharp blu ray player will also allow you to enjoy your older DVD’s through the player. Even though you may be buying your current movies in Blu-ray format, you may have a large collection of older movies on DVD. The Sharp blu ray player can play these standard DVD’s and will actually improve the viewing quality. The Sharp blu ray player has the ability to up-scale these older DVD’s to a full 1080p resolution as long as you are connected to your display through HDMI. This means you achieve an HD quality picture from the DVD. It will actually be a much better quality than if it were played on a standard DVD player.
Wide Selection of Media – The Sharp blu-ray players can play many different formats of media and are backward-compatible with most of your media. They can easily play full HD Blu-ray content. They can also play BD-ROM (both BD-RE and BD-R). Additionally, they can play standard DVD’s and up-scale them to 1080p. The Sharp blu ray players also play a wide range of DVD recordable media including DVD-RW, DVD-R. DVD+R. DVD+R.