Products · Pattern or everyday thing
DVD menus
Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 8 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
- 1DVD menus are confusing to navigateUnreviewed
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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 13 complaints
- Overly complex menus confuse kids and delay starting the movie2026-10-08
- User is utterly incapable of navigating DVD menus with the remote2026-10-08
- Forced waits and unskippable logos, warnings and ads before playback2026-10-08
- Many DVD menus are confusing to navigate2026-10-08
- Remote buttons are poor and the DVD player takes two seconds to respond to each press2026-10-08
- Menus fail to highlight the selected item when buttons are pressed2026-10-08
- Slow, overly complicated menus make starting a movie harder than needed2024-12-11
- Leaving a menu to play video jumps to a language/subtitle menu every time2021-08-25
- Disabled skipping, subtitle and soundtrack switching, forcing viewers through slow animated menus2019-10-05
- Unskippable previews, animated menus, and badly paginated scene lists make it hard to resume a movie2017-08-09
- Forced FBI warnings and stupid menus can't be skipped, wasting time2012-01-08
- Disc menus are hard to navigate while driving, forcing risky attention to the screen2011-03-22
- Fancy DVD menus make usability worse and differ on every disc2010-02-26