The BD-HP20 is of superb build quality, it will function quietly and it's operation is logical to anyone.

The finish of this player looks great, with a piano black finish. The BD-HP20H provides 1080p resolution for either Blu-ray discs or DVDs (by upscaling to 1080p). It also comes with a 24p progressive scan, so you will watch films as they were meant to watched.

There have been a few complaints in the past about Blu-ray players being a bit slow, so to counter these complaints, The BD-HP20 offers a "Quick Start" feature, this promises to begin playback "within seconds" and also offers full Blu-ray Java support.

Some other important features to mention are the energy saving features, support for HD sound formats with a whopping 5.1 output, HDMI 1.3, along with playback of DVD-R, CD-R, DVD-RW and CD-RW formats.