Products · Broad category
Digital TV
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 7 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Digital TV, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Digital public TV described as absolutely unusable by the commenter2026-06-27
- Elderly user with poor eyesight can no longer operate TV without help after switchover2024-09-20
- TVs struggle to get a picture because digital streams have little redundancy2024-09-17
- Digital radios and TVs take too long to change stations, so people avoid scanning2022-02-09
- Every remote button press lags a second or two before acting2021-01-11
- Digital tuners take too long to switch channels, making channel surfing slow2017-07-17
- Channel changes take noticeably longer to display than analog TV2010-01-14