This started yesterday. On YoutubeTV when I fast forward though a recorded show it works fine early in the show, but later in the show the problem arises. At some point I fast forward through commercials, and when I hit play it stops and the "standby" (buffering?) circle spins in the middle of the screen. Then after a minute or so the screen goes black except for the spinning circle and that's how it stays, stuck and spinning away, unresponsive. It's only the fast forward that's problematic and that's only late in the show. I've tried it on a couple of YoutubeTV channels and at least ABC, PBS, my local Fox station, MSNBC, Bundesliga, and the NBA have the problem (I haven't had a chance to try others so I don't know how widespread it is). When I exit to the home screen then open YoutubeTV again any show that was stuck still is stuck in the same place but everything else works if I haven't fast forwarded it. I rebooted the Streambar and the problem persisted. I removed and reinstalled YoutubeTV and rebooted and the problem persisted. I unplugged the Streambar and plugged it back in half a dozen times and the problem persisted. Tonight I bit the bullet and did a factory reset and when I reinstalled YoutubeTV the problem was still there with the exact show that had been frozen, still frozen in the same spot. The network is a constant 46Mbps, and having reset just the Streambar, I guess everything is up to date. I've now hooked a laptop up to the TV so we don't have to deal with the Roku. Thoughts? Netflix and Max seem to be working just fine and I have never seen anything buffer before on any of the services. Well, except for Apple TV which was unusable so we cancelled. Oh.. also, it's not a smart TV. Dumb as a post.
