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DJ Rob

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The Apple TV On Screen Display of the progress bar and related info takes ~5 seconds before self-dismissing after most actions such as play and pause. But for me, 5 seconds is excessively long when pressing the skip back button (rewind). For instance, pressing skip back once rewinds 10 seconds and the OSD dwells for about 5 of those seconds. This is particularly annoying with embedded subtitles, since the overlay covers the area where those subtitles are usually displayed- making them very difficult to read (which was often the reason I skipped back). Obviously, I can skip back more than 10 seconds to compensate for the OSD time (and do), but rather the OSD dismisses quicker.

It's a minor annoyance and not the end of the world, but interested if anyone knows of a setting to reduce the OSD dwell time. tnx
 
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This is particularly annoying with embedded subtitles, since the overlay covers the area where those subtitles are usually displayed- making them very difficult to read (which was often the reason I skipped back).
I think, at least with tvOS 16, it lifts subtitles up on screen, while OSD is displayed.
This is what I see, when watching on the embedded player (eg Computers app).
 
I think, at least with tvOS 16, it lifts subtitles up on screen, while OSD is displayed.
This is what I see, when watching on the embedded player (eg Computers app).
You're correct about the dynamically generated subtitles or closed captioning. The subtitles I'm referring to are the statically overlayed text for translations or other information that was inserted during editing, such as when a character starts speaking in a different language, such as:

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