[HankB99]

> Do you think it's due to some kind of network call?

Good call! (No pun intended.)

I often wondered why my fancy Xfinity DVR is so sluggish when I press a button on the remote. It finally connected when my Internet kept going down after some improvement they made and when the Internet could not be reached, the system stops responding to the remote. Can't even pause or exit. It's clear that every button press must make a round trip to Comcast' servers before it is acted on. It's Craptastic!

[anthk]

European user here, with an Android based fiber-TV (Orange top box?) set with the similar slugginness issues.