I can't say exactly when this started happening, but my memory is that I used to be able to say 'skip ahead 3 minutes' using the voice command on the remote. Now when I hit the microphone icon button on the remote the recording stops and exits to the previous screen.
Like I said, my MEMORY is that I used to be able to do that but maybe I'm wrong. It's handy to use the voice command like that vs scrubbing to skip commercials.