I have a HXD-710 and usually upon waking it up from standby it takes about 3 seconds to turn on and display a channel on the TV.

However sometimes, the "Welcome" message on the screen stays on for about 10 - maybe 20 seconds with nothing appearing on the TV. At first I thought it had frozen and tried to turn it off but couldn't even do that. Now I know just to leave it and eventually it will "wake up".

Has anyone else's unit done this. Do you know what it's doing? Is it a fault? I wondered if it was reorganising the hard disc or something. I do have a lot of recordings on my HDD - about 60 currently, about 60GB free space.

Any help appreciated,
Stuart

I've just got this problem as well yesterday (after a month of daily use). It takes now a minute to "wake up" instead of few seconds. My HDD is only 1/3 full after the Xmas period. Strange enough, it was working fine a day before with the same number of programmes. I don't know what's going on. Is there a way to reorganise (defragment) the HDD ?

I think mine too was just over a month old when it started doing this. Only happened for a couple of turn-on's and then has been fine ever since.

I do not think that there is a way to manually defragment the HDD but I'm pretty sure I hear it doing this in the background, say, when you are just viewing a channel.

Also, to correct my initial post, it actually says "Sony DVD" on the display rather than "Welcome".

Stuart

Exact same thing: happened a couple times, but it seems OK now.
Strange...
At least, it is not a behavior linked to my machine only.

thx Stuart

Bill

PS: the message is indeed "Sony DVD"