Forum Discussion

Gpeirce's avatar
Gpeirce
Streaming Star
3 years ago
Solved

Live TV Pause has disappeared

I can't get pause to work on Live TV.  As you can see, it's not even an option in settings.  Setting up Live TV Pause used to show up under Rename Remove.  Can you help?    
  • RokuArjiemar's avatar
    RokuArjiemar
    3 years ago

    Hello! DaveLessnau,

    Thanks for the post,

    We're sorry to hear about your issue with pausing live TV. We're happy to help.

    Live TV Pause is only available on the Live TV input of your Roku TV and requires a dedicated USB 2.0-compatible flash drive with at least 16GB of storage for recording the video. As soon as you tune in to a digital channel, Live TV Pause begins recording up to 90 minutes of live television. Live TV Pause is only available when watching "over-the-air" broadcast TV from the Live TV input. It is not available when watching live-streaming TV from The Roku Channel.

    For more detailed information, please check this out: How to Pause Live Television on Your Roku TV

    Thanks,

    Arjiemar

DaveLessnau's avatar
DaveLessnau
Streaming Star
3 years ago

"Live TV Pause is only available when watching "over-the-air" broadcast TV from the Live TV input. It is not available when watching live-streaming TV from The Roku Channel."

Well, that explains that.  But, let me ask:  WHY?  What difference does it make if I have to run to the bathroom while watching OTA programming vs watching streaming programming?  Live TV Pause should be available for all inputs.

505's avatar
505
Newbie
2 years ago

I do not have a roku tv.  You need to change it back to being able to pause and fwd on all channels.!!! NOW!!!

  • joespinach's avatar
    joespinach
    Channel Surfer
    10 months ago

    To the people in charge at Roku, whoever you are.  We have  a TCL Roku TV.  It came with a pause/resume feature for LIVE OVER-THE-AIR TV.  It DOES work with streaming shows.  Fine.  But no longer on LIVE OTA.  It worked wonderfully, for a while.  We loved the feature!  It stopped working.  I've tried EVERYTHING that I've read here as solutions.  Re-starting, removing flash drives, re-formatting, use flash drive with the right storage capacity, and so on.  It seems that the usual protocol is to hear from a Roku rep, asking me for more details, and have I tried this or that, and yes I've tried this AND that. And they say make sure you do this, so I make sure I do that.  Is there really a fix?  Or if you've decided to discontinue the feature, please be up-front and tell us!  I'm sorry if I'm coming across as rude.  But I'm frustrated.  I really like an answer.  I want this to work just as it did when we got the TV.  Thanks.