TiVo

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 11 threads.

People raised many different problems with TiVo, 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 13 complaints

Interface lagged so fast-forward with auto-rewind no longer worked consistently2026-09-07
UI is slow to respond; streaming boxes take 20 minutes to reboot2025-10-08
Cancel button missing from site, support only linked to docs describing it2024-07-11
Latency made channel changing feel unusable compared to analog TV2021-12-10
Commenter found the new TiVo interface unimpressive in preview, so they haven't adopted it2018-02-28
The interface is clunky and hard to navigate2018-02-28
Menus need more button presses, can't navigate with d-pad select, and are hard to memorize2018-02-27
UX is not as efficient as the user would like2016-07-04
Slow interface, bad menu design, and standard-definition UI on HD boxes2014-04-21
Back button doesn't take you back to the previous screen2014-03-20
Tivo is laggy and streaming on the home network takes many hoops2012-11-14
Cancelling requires a phone call of 20+ minutes; no online option2011-10-25
No search, and slow input makes the Netflix interface harder to use2011-04-25