Products · Pattern or everyday thing
DVD players
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 7 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.
Every issue, all time, most people first
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 8 complaints
- Over-engineered menus with scene previews and poor navigation UX delay getting to the movie2026-10-09
- Grandparents gave up playing media because discs need menus and navigation2026-10-08
- DVD menus and slow loading make it tedious to start playback2026-04-09
- Grandfather couldn't grasp that remote arrows move menu selection and Enter plays2022-02-11
- Elderly relatives struggle with DVD menus and can't tell which remote button to press2019-04-05
- Cannot skip or fast-forward through trailers and intros on DVDs2018-07-17
- DVD player software is slow to boot and crashes, with odd UI behavior and a forced workflow2013-03-02
- Unskippable ads injected into movies cannot be skipped, forcing viewers to sit through them2010-12-22