Good Evening all, first time poster so please be gentle!

I have an SVR-HDT500 HDD recorder which has worked fine since i bought it 18months ago(ish!)

For the last few days the unit has been slow to respond to the remote. This evening it flatly refused to be turned on. My first thought was batteries, which i changed for new one's with no joy.

The remote will turn on the television (Bravia KDL-32W5810) but not the HDD recorder. In addition, the recorder will turn on with the button on the front, but there are no other controls to operate it.

I have tried using the reset button on the front of the recorder and it will reboot, but the fault remains. I have also cleaned the remote sensor and gone through the troubleshooting directions contained in the user manual with no joy.

Any advice anyone could give me would be greatly appreciated before i go hunting for reciepts.

Many thanks in advance.