Hi All,
Sorry for the time lag in this reply.
The hiss on mine is bad, so much so that the whole chassis was replaced by my dealer in an attempt to cure it, and it made NO difference at all. Their reply was "they all do that, even the one in the showroom". At the moment I am trying to get the specifiction for the signal to noise ratio out of B&O for this but have had no luck to date. This much noise on a high spec unit is not correct or acceptable. Does seem strange that they do not include this info in the technical specifications published.
As part of the replacement chassis I also got a new DTV module and it is the latest DTV-HD module, I thought great so now I will be able to see HD TV pictures on my HD TV.... but no.... it cannot work with the UK system, shame on B&O as every other manufacturer seems to have had no problem with the UK system.
The long startup time was introduced with one of the many software/hardware changes done including the last one that was supposed to fix it. It did start up faster (about 8 seconds) but after a few weeks it mostly reverts to the slow start up that takes longer than an old valve set used to take. Then when you change channel sometimes it starts up all over again, (yes another 35 seconds wait).
Not too impressed with B&O as you can imagine at present.