hi, I`ve the hdr1800t.
Still suffering from machine freezing sometimes.
However, returned from weeks hols and machine would not switch on, light remained red. Had to switch off/on at wall socket. After it got back to life I checked the media button to see all my recordings had recorded, but nothing came up. I got a message “HDD needs to be formatted to record programmes”. Now it appears that all my recordings over the past 2 months have been lost. Any help over this is appreciated.