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Saturday, February 12th, 2022 9:53 PM

Live TV Pausing

When I pause live TV and step away for 10 minutes, I come back, select the play button, and it's at live TV again. I've missed 10 minutes of what I was watching. Is there a setting or something where I can adjust the length of pause time?

ACE - New Member

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3.5K Messages

3 years ago

If you plan on pausing something for a while just record what you are watching. That's the only "workaround" I have found,.

ACE - Expert

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1.2K Messages

3 years ago

Which device are you using?  Pause is not yet implemented on some.

New Member

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3 Messages

3 years ago

Thanks for the response. I'm using a Toshiba smart TV.

ACE - Expert

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6.4K Messages

3 years ago

With what device on the TV?

ACE - Expert

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1.2K Messages

3 years ago

The Toshiba smart TVs (at least the current models) use FireTV built-in. I believe FireTV does not yet have the full pause functionality added yet (didn’t last I checked). I assume it is coming. 

New Member

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3 Messages

3 years ago

Thanks, y'all, yes it's Fire TV. Maybe I need to contact Amazon.

ACE - Expert

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1.2K Messages

3 years ago

No, the limitation would be in the DirecTV Stream app, not an issue with FireTV.  DirecTV has added the support to most of the other apps - I would hope that it won't be too much longer until they add it to the FireTV app.


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