After spending a lot of time looking around I decided on this player given its price and reviews at that time were good.
Last night I purchased a new release and the player stopped 20 minutes in. Knowing this can happen with any BluRay player I went to the Sharp website, downloaded the updates and installed it on the player. The player breezed through the movie and overall performance across menus seem better as well.
Great player - competes with anything else out there.
Only reason for giving it a 4 vs. 5 star is boot time could be a little faster.