A good little second player
I bought this player last year during one certain websites price SNAFU (sub seventy bucks with shipping)(with big thanks to the "heads-up" from the fine folks at [...]). I bought it as our second Blu-ray player for our bedroom (our first is a PS3 in the living room).

My biggest problem was that certain new Blu-rays did not load past the menu. But I emailed support at [...] and they sent me a link with a new firmware. I downloaded the firmware contents, burned it to a CD, and loaded it up to my Sherwood BDP-5003 in a matter of minutes. Now it works great!

Yep, the remote is rather crappy, but it actually will allow you to adjust the volume without having to find another remote for your TV or receiver (a rather nice feature). Yep, the sound isn't comparable to the high end brands, but for the low price that Amazon offers, it's a good deal. If I found another for less than seventy bucks, I'd definitely buy a few as a gift for a friends/relatives.

Sherwood Blu-ray DVD player review
A very good price for a Blu-ray DVD player. Does not have all the bells and whistles of higher end models but, it serves my purpose fine.

Good Blu-Ray Player, Misleading Specifications
I purchased this player elsewhere (suprising I beat Amazon prices). Playback is good and clear. Unlike the box and specifications, this player does NOT have any built in decoders - Dolby TrueHD, DTS Master Audio, or Dolby / DTS anything. The support referred to is the ability to send the encoded signal, via HDMI only, to a receiver with the decoders built in to perform the actual decoding of the signal. If your receiver does not have an HDMI port, or is "pass through" only, this will not work. Note that I am using optical audio and the signal processing supposedly only for HDMI seems to work with this option - contrary to the manual?? - basically PCM 96K, downsampled 48K, or re-encoded DTS.
Overall a good basic (kitchen, secondary use) player with very good 1080p picture. I consider the advertising / specification misleading / false advertising. If the box / specifications states, as this Sherwood Blu-Ray player does, it is DTS Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD, only to find out in the fine detail - in the manual, it simply forwards a signal is very deceptive. Shame on Sherwood. That's kind of like a UPS driver claiming a PhD because he delivered the documents to a graduate. WTH?

No muss, No fuss Blu-Ray player
I buy and rent movies, usually now on Blu-Ray disc. Usually all I want to do is watch the movie and perhaps a few of the extras. For that mission a player such as the Sherwood BDP-5003 is perfect. It puts out an excellent video and audio signals on the HDMI connnector, and since my AVR can decode Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD I'm all set. I'm very pleased with this purchase.