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Neil13764
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Solving Freezing & Recording Live TV

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I put a 32 GB USB in my Roku Ultra. I was wathing ESPN (live program) on the Roku and it will not freeze the play.

Please help me freeze the playing for ESPN

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Strega
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Re: Solving Freezing & Recording Live TV

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The page you linked says: "Live TV Pause is only available on the Live TV input of your Roku TV". Roku streaming players like the Ultra are not TVs. Roku TVs are TVs (including antenna and cable box inputs) with Roku functionality built in to them.

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renojim
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Re: Solving Freezing & Recording Live TV

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@Neil13764, the USB port on an Ultra is strictly for media playback. Most live streams cannot be paused (it varies by channel/app). Roku TVs can use the USB drive to pause live over the air broadcasts, but even they can't pause live streams.

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Neil13764
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Re: Solving Freezing & Recording Live TV

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Thank for the response. I was looking at the Roku support site and found this: https://support.roku.com/article/115005649508

Which says that the USB can be used for freezing and recording. Does that only apply to some other models?

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Strega
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Re: Solving Freezing & Recording Live TV

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The page you linked says: "Live TV Pause is only available on the Live TV input of your Roku TV". Roku streaming players like the Ultra are not TVs. Roku TVs are TVs (including antenna and cable box inputs) with Roku functionality built in to them.

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Neil13764
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Re: Solving Freezing & Recording Live TV

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Thanks, I missed the fact that it is only on the Roku TV not Rolu devices

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