re: Directv freezing every time a certain Lexus commercial comes on

Lexus, Intel, and Carnival commercials seem to be common, as well as local commercials.

I'm reading that some commercials are stored on the receiver's hard drive. The local commercials might be stored so they don't have to broadcast so many different streams. The big name commercials might be stored as part of a targeted advertising scheme. Anyway, apparently there is a bug when the receiver tries to finish playing the recorded commercial and then switch back to the broadcast. Some say DTV is working on a fix, others say DTV says they haven't heard of the problem.

I would probably call them every time it happens.