If you pause a video you'll never see your chosen screensaver. It will be a blank screen or "Logo rain".
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This "glitch" of defaulting to the raining Roku screensaver, or a black screen, when pausing a video, never occurred on my older Roku Streaming Stick that I recently replaced with the newer 4K. It always went to the screensaver I chose, no matter what. Why change this? It seems more like a downgrade IMO and I hope it can be corrected in a software update. Other than this I love my Roku as always. Thanks.
Lore4, was your old stick a 4k device and are you using the same screensaver? I haven't figured out a rhyme or reason why some devices get "Logo rain" and others don't (and I've seen the same device act differently depending on the phase of the moon, I suppose 🙂 ), but I don't think it's a "glitch" and I doubt it's going to be "corrected". If anything, they'll probably change it to something more annoying.
My old one is not a 4k, just a plain Roku Streaming Stick, a few years old, and it also came with a remote that has voice search and headphone jack, PLUS included ear buds! This new 4k streaming stick's remote lacks a headphone jack, so is a downgrade as far as the remote goes. It was the only streaming stick available for my older TV. With the unpredictable screensaver, not sure what the advantage is with this 4k Stick. I waited too long to hook it up, so it's too late to return it now. It works, but the screensaver is annoying. I wanted the aquarium one to display all the time, and it's unpredictable.
