Why won't ffwd or rewind work on hbogo app any longer

Normal Apple TV rewind and fast forward on HBO GO does not seem to work anymore, but chapter skipping does. To jump ahead or backwards, press the DOWN button on the Apple TV remote. This will show you the bar with the segments, little black lines on the blue bar. Now click left arrow or right arrow in order to skip a segment back or forward. Click the Play button if it freezes. Hope that helps!

I just started experiencing the same issues. I can chapter skip though. No rewind or fast-forward. Tried restarting AppleTV to no avail.

Same here. Just started so not sure if an update is causing the issue but it is REALLY annoying and defeats the point of streaming content! Restart sometimes helps. Didn't know about the chapter option. Will try that next time in lieu of restarting.

I briefly got the 2x FF and rewind to work a couple of times, now it just freezes up, and I could not get 4x and 8x FF or rewind to work. Now I am just chapter skipping segments which is 4 minutes at time, but if you miss a word or a scene you have to go back and watch the whole 4 minutes over again. Hope Apple fixes this in the next update since it worked fine in the past.

Having the same problem. - unable to Ffd or Rwd. I can only use the scene skip function (down button on the Apple remote). Can we get some help from Apple on this or perhaps a redirect somewhere we might? Thanks!

So here's what just worked for me. First, and I did not know this, apparently there is an option to "Pair" your remote. Because it worked out of the box I don't guess I ever paired it. Settings > General > Remotes

That helped return the FF feature, but only with a blank screen.

I decided to try to my iPhone remote to see if that would work and having reset my Apple TV, I had to turn on the home sharing feature within Apple TV.

Once I did that, using my regular silver Apple TV remote, everything went back to normal. Yeah!!

I hope this helps some others. Please let me know if I can help.

Okay - so THAT worked for all of about five minutes. Now it's the same thing. No matter which remote I use (iPhone or silver remote that came with the Apple TV.

I'm going to return it. If Apple can't fix this, or at least officially respond to this thread (LONG OVERDUE) I'll be changing devices. This is just messed up.