When I hit the fast forward button like 1.5x, 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x, it will fast forward for a while but then revert back to just the regular play speed after only a few seconds of fast forward.

It will drop out of Fast-Forward all by itself after just 3-5 seconds

This is such a basic piece of functionality, I don't understand how they could put all that effort into nice packaging, nice instruction pamphlet, nice interface, even nice remote, but then forget to do something as basic as fast forward properly