If I'm watching native content on the Gemini I can pause a program for a long time and the screen just stays there on the paused scene, but if I am using an app like HBO, Apple, etc. and pause, the box itself turns off after about 5 minutes. The screen goes to the TV's screensaver and then I have to turn the Gemini box back on, find the content I was watching and try to resume where I left off.

Is there any way to keep the Gemini from turning off like this when pausing app content?

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Made the trek to Costco yesterday and figured might as well fill up what the tank will hold while I'm there. Surprised to find that their gas was not any less expensive than most of the normal gas stations around town. Premium was $5.59, same as the Chevron right near home.

For as long as I can remember it's always been considerably less, weird.

I know this is most likely not a DTV issue, but tonight's House of the Dragon episode, S3E7, will not record as a new episode if you have it set for series recording. For some reason it says the episode date is 7/7/26, which I think is why it did not pick it up as a new episode.

I know anyone can still stream it even if they miss the recording, I just thought this was an interesting tidbit to share.

After a month of nagging emails I finally went through the multiple steps to create a free Peacock 'Premium' account only to find out that Peacock is like wandering into a 20-year-old Blockbuster store.

Seriously? People want this stuff? Why did I bother?

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I really appreciate that there are scheduled broadcasts of the Formula 1 content on the Apply TV channels, but the programs seem to be cutting short by 5 to 10 minutes versus the streamed versions on the app. Seems odd since there are not other programs following these, so why cut them short?

It's acting like a computer that's out of memory, very slow responding, some buttons on the remote won't do anything, then the program skips all the way to the beginning, to the end, or some random spot. Guide won't hardly scroll either.

Tried resetting, still doing it. Internet tests out fine.

Anyone else?

UPDATE: Changed out the remote batteries and that has helped, but the unit is still acting weird. Last night while watching Apple TV app it just froze and said no network connection, but I quickly changed over to the Apple TV app on my Sony TV (same wifi) and it worked just fine. Even 30 minutes later the Gemini said no connection. Did a restart and everything was fine again. Did a network test and it came back Great!

Then this morning every time I would hit the pause/play button the screen would just go black. I had to hit Home and go back and forth a few times and then it was normal again.

Coming from the days of videotape, then TIVO, then the Genies, now to the era of the 'cloud DVR' - I'm wondering how this new system actually works?

We are all getting the same content fed to us (maybe with regional ad differences). If you and I both 'record' the same program, the actual recording is identical, right? So does DTV actually put two complete copies of this content on a server somewhere? If ALL streaming users record the same program, are there hundreds of thousands of copies of the same thing sitting out there like there would be if we all had physical DVRs again? That makes no sense, especially since DTV went to the 'record from beginning' feature, so everyone gets a complete end-to-end version no matter when they actually hit the record button. It would make more sense that there's ONE complete copy of the content and everyone's 'recorded' flag just points to this one copy when you want to 'play' it, right? One complete copy on a server and everyone gets fed this one copy upon request. Essentially it's video-on-demand for everything. The same reasoning applies to the ability to 'restart' a program if you come in partway through.

The reason I'm asking is because of this issue of missing the end of programs, particularly live events, when you set them to record. I SWEAR there are times when I've watched a recorded event and the recording has ended before the end of game or race, but I don't delete it, and then a couple days later I watch it again and miraculously there's now the whole thing all the way to the actual end! Am I imagining this?

This solution where they tell you to record the program that follows the live event doesn't make any sense if they are keeping a single copy and everyone gets a pointer to that one copy, but it does explain how my recorded version is suddenly complete when it wasn't originally. The 'auto-extend' feature just needs to know how much extra time from the following program to add on to the original program when someone asks for a replay of the recording.

Is there a way to set a program airing on one of the 4K channels to record through the web or phone app? You can't view those channels or see them in the guide, so how do you set a recording?

I've had my Starkey RICs for 3 years. The right ear receiver went bad the other day. My audiologist replaced it and told me in conversation that they generally only last a year or so. Is that what other users experience? I had no idea these were considered a maintenance item like wax guards and domes.