Products · Pattern or everyday thing
DVDs
Raised as a usability problem by 19 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2009–2024), in 17 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
Unskippable piracy warnings and adverts before playbackUnreviewed
20092026- Unskippable copyright notices and menus before playback waste the viewer's time2022-11-21
- Legal DVDs force unskippable piracy warnings and hard-to-skip adverts before playback2017-05-22
- Protected DVDs can't be easily ripped to archive films they own2012-11-30
Trailers and warnings cannot be skippedUnreviewed
20092026- Forced unskippable menus and trailers delay getting to the main content2019-04-05
- Must sit through unskippable trailers and warnings before the movie starts2017-05-22
- Newer DVDs force unskippable trailers and warnings the viewer cannot skip2014-05-15
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 19 complaints
- Non-skippable screens and ads waste time when you want to start the film2024-12-11
- Unskippable disclaimers and menus with non-standard controls make starting a movie hard, especially for kids who can't read2024-09-10
- Menus and unskippable content make DVDs tedious to get through2024-07-12
- Unskippable copyright notices and menus before playback waste the viewer's time2022-11-21
- Kids can't figure out how to skip the front-loaded ads2022-04-21
- Forced to sit through unskippable ads before reaching the disc menu2021-04-20
- Forced unskippable menus and trailers delay getting to the main content2019-04-05
- Must sit through unskippable trailers and warnings before the movie starts2017-05-22
- Legal DVDs force unskippable piracy warnings and hard-to-skip adverts before playback2017-05-22
- DVD menus are awful and confusing, with unskippable warnings and slow load times2016-12-07
- Newer DVDs force unskippable trailers and warnings the viewer cannot skip2014-05-15
- Protected DVDs can't be easily ripped to archive films they own2012-11-30
- Can't trust that files written to a DVD are all present and correct, so must check2012-01-26
- Accidentally skips scenes when trying to rewind a short way to catch dialogue2011-03-22
- Navigating DVD menus and ads makes it hard to start a movie for kids2011-03-22
- After removing a disc to fix a freeze, users must navigate menus to resume where they left off2010-08-12
- Unskippable FBI warnings and menus, and can't resume where left off2009-10-19
- Can't skip unwanted content at the start of discs2009-10-09
- DVDs bought were awkward or impossible to play on Linux2009-04-22