LG webOS TV

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2016–2026), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with LG webOS 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 12 complaints

Remote navigation is unpredictable, not using standard up/down/left/right buttons, and auto HDR switching blanks the screen during playback2026-01-25
Setting to boot into last input is buried several menus deep under advanced settings2025-12-10
Menus take seconds to load and stutter, with apps reloaded every time they're opened2023-04-08
Home screen lags for seconds at boot while loading ads2023-01-14
Can't figure out how to disable a feature that resumes playback on motion2021-11-25
Pointing at small on-screen targets with the magic remote is ridiculously difficult2021-04-30
Laggy and cluttered interface with unwanted content2021-04-05
Switching between satellite and TV takes more than five button presses2021-04-05
TV freezes, needs power cycling to launch Netflix, and menus are slow and unresponsive2020-09-23
On-screen cursor gets in the way and is hard to control2018-03-19
Menus lag, so users press twice and the input cycle repeats2018-03-19
Channel change takes about ten seconds, with long delays after each button press2016-02-04