Tip on apparent lockup on extended pause for Gemini

I was having issues with extended pause on the Gemini.

Pausing Directv satellite channels went to streamed ads, but pressing play again went back to where I was, and play a second time resumed. OK, that is fine.

The next issue I had was extended pauses on Apps (netflix, hulu, etc). It appeared that a DTV streaming channel came up, looked like an over the air channel, and no audio.

But what was really happening was the screen would blank, and then my Samsung TV detected no signal, and the Samsung went to local channels from my OTA antenna. Since the TV took over, then no audio because the Denon receiver did not know to pick up the TV audio on the HDMI reverse audio channel.

When this happened, the only key that seemed to do anything was the Home button, and then I had to call up apps, and then go back into Netflix... what a pain.

What solved the issue, is enabling the DTV screensaver (nice pictures from Google), and then the TV never sensed a loss of video, and it minded it's own business.

So as much as I hate screensavers, this is the easy solution.

Greg