remember, I just bought this camera (HD110) and have only a few days working with it, having just switched from the HVX200,

so, this seems a little strange to me... in order to see the data in the LCD screen with the picture, I'm supposed to press the Display button to cycle thru picture, data (large) and picture + data.
However, I only get picture, data Large, and picture with 16:9/4:3 lines. The only way I can get the data + picture to show up is to press the VCR button, where the data does show up, then switch back to camera.

Is this right?

as always, thanks for your advice!!

Try pressing the menu button to cycle through the amount of data shown on-screen.