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Sherwood BDP-5004 Blu-ray Disc Player (Black)
	Manufacturer: Sherwood Customer Rating:   List Price: $299.98 Sale Price: $154.21 Availibility: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Now
Product Description
The BDP-5004 is a Profile 2.0 player that outputs at 1080i, 1080p/60 and 1080p/24. It can also upscale standard DVDs to 720p, 1080i, or 1080p through its HDMI 1.3 output. Both Deep Color and XV Color are supported, as well as onboard decoding for Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD Master Audio high-resolution audio formats. Other features: Component and composite outputs, coaxial digital output and 2-channel analog down mix output.
Product Details
Blu Ray Profile 2.0; BD-Live Capable of 1080p output from Blu-ray Discs Scales standard DVD's to 720p, 1080i, 1080p via HDMI HDMI 1.3, component & composite outputs Deep color
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Blu-ray Bargain   Review Date: February 24, 2010 Reviewer: Dominic Lucarelli, I have had this player for a few weeks and I love it. I bought it because of reviews I had read on Internet A/V forums, and also because of its 5.1/7.1 analog outputs, since I could not afford to buy a new A/V receiver with HDMI ports. I have the Sherwood hooked up via HDMI to a LG 47LH40 LCD, and the picture is extraordinary. The upconversion of standard DVDs is near-perfect, Blu-ray looks phenomenal, the analog outputs work great and the front and rear USB2 ports work flawlessly. The manual is pretty basic but serves its purpose. For $157, I'm not going to complain for this kind of quality! A fine multi-region blu-ray player   Review Date: February 18, 2010 Reviewer: T. J. Friedman, Tallahassee, Florida The Sherwood 5004 is a reliable Blu-Ray player. It performs excellently and is very similar to the Momitsu 899. I have set up my player to take advantage of all BD-Live 2.0 features. I am pleased to report that the player performs these functions very well indeed. It loads and plays BD-Live content much faster than does my older Panasonic BDP-35. Using the HD Bitstream setting sent through HDMI cables to my Pioneer VSX-91TXH Receiver, I have found Dolby True HD and DTS Master Sound to sound splendid whether the movie/music is encoded at 7.1, 2.0 or 1.0 channels. Immediately prior to the install of the player, I re-calibrated the room and speakers using Pioneer's built in sound analyzer. The upconversion of pictures appears to be of a higher quality than my older Panasonic, however, I am not certain I can state the same thing about the Oppo DV-981 and will need to look a while longer. At any rate, the Sherwood certainly loads much faster than the Panasonic. This was examined after I reset the various levels on video display on my Samsung 46" monitor using two separate video programs. That said, I heartily recommend the Sherwood, especially given that I have repeatedly switched it from Region A to Region B and back again. The machine handles each very well. Better Than Expected   Review Date: January 31, 2010 Reviewer: J. C. Ortiz, USA I bought this player for what I understand are its multi-zone/region capabilities. While I haven't tested that yet, the unit is quick to start and load a disc. In addition, the quality of the picture seems to be as good as my Oppo 83 and Pioneer BDP-51FD. Upconversion of DVDs also seems to be quite good. All for about $170 delivered from Amazon. Good deal. What would make it a five star? More connectivity options. Great deal for the money. 3-3-2010: Update to original review. I've now purchased two of these units through Amazon. The original from [...] and the second unit from Ritz Camera. I am very pleased with the multi-zone capabilities. The unit plays anything I've gotten my hands on as well as several multi-zone/region discs. Most recently the unit played a European bluray of the Hurt Locker without a hitch and I should note that I didn't have to enter the secret remote codes that one can locate on the internet. Kudos to Amazon and Ritz Camera for refunding me the cost of the second unit and shipping me a new player when the unit that was shipped had problems with going to a green screen after several minutes of use. It took about three weeks for the refund to process and I am happy with the replacement. If you are wondering when the problem occurred, it was immediately out of the box and did not develop over time. It was a factory defective product so please be sure that you hook up the unit immediately and test that it plays before you start throwing out the packaging material. I called Ritz Camera immeidately for the replacement and Amazon processed the refund. Ritz Camera covered the cost of shipping the defective unit back to it. Good customer service. nice blu-ray   Review Date: February 3, 2010 Reviewer: Julia K. Lee, Aberdeen, MS. USA quick delivery from ritzcamera. nice blu-ray that plays any region disc. only downfall is the loud click when loading and hum when playing. Piece of JUNK!   Review Date: February 13, 2010 Reviewer: theoriginalsubguy, Florida Bought it. Got it. Hooked it up and... Took over 30 minutes for initial boot up (websites say it should take 6-10 seconds). Then watched "CARS". Played fine, then powered it down for the evening. Next morning, with disc still in it, it wouldn't boot up. Tried unplugging and replugging in the power as the book suggested. Couldn't eject disc either. There is no over ride for this. After four hours (that's right!), it finally opened the disc tray. Then it froze again, with the tray stuck open. After unplugging and replugging, the tray shut, but then it displayed a strange pattern on the screen. I was on HDMI at the time, but I tried switching to componant, and composite thinking maybe it was a configuration issue during the process. Believe me, I let it sit for much time in each configuration thinking that it would figure out it's own problem. Junk! Got it because of the ease of making it region free, but I think they must be pumping them out with no quality control since it is one of the few that can do region free so easily, and it's in high demand. Avoid until Quality assurance returns to this company (Sherwood is getting these from Momitsu, a clone of the Momitsu 899) Attempting to return it for full refund, but now they want me to pay the shipping. Once received, the retailer will give me a couple free shipping coupons for future orders, which is acceptable. Replaced it with a Samsung P1600, which can also be made region free, but it is much more complex as it involved updating the player wth the firmware for the region you are seeking to play. Funny thing is that each region has different options. For example, when you no longer have the firmware for North America in the P1600, you may lose the youtube and netflix options... The Samsung P1600 is working great. Very very fast startup time, and disc loads up in less than 6 seconds normally. I am very happy with the new P1600 blu ray player.

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