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Set-top boxes
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Set-top boxes, 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 5 complaints
- Remote control interaction is laggy and painful to use2025-10-03
- Typing text with a remote requires tedious directional button sequences2023-09-15
- Software is so bad the boxes are close to unusable2020-07-15
- Set-top box interfaces are slow, unresponsive, unintuitive and uninformative2014-05-13
- STB interfaces getting more complex, hard to keep simple for TV users2010-08-25