Products · Broad category
TVs
Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2012–2025), in 11 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with TVs, 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
- TV sometimes won't power on, and power cycling blind via one button is hard2025-12-15
- Text becomes nearly unreadable on many TVs due to chroma subsampling and sub-pixel layouts2025-11-05
- Input lag on some TVs made wall jumps in Mario 64 impossible to time2022-02-05
- TV won't wake from sleep on computer input, so user must reach for the remote2021-12-07
- Users struggle to find the input or source button to switch between sources2019-10-21
- Regular users get confused by inputs, remote buttons, cabling and getting back to the main menu2019-06-17
- TV user experience is the worst of all tech, hard to use2019-05-11
- Mouse cursor lags 200+ms behind, making the TV frustrating to work with2019-04-07
- Factory picture settings look bad and must be manually changed2017-11-27
- Mac silently uses poor color mode unless TV input is labeled PC2017-01-31
- Frame processing delay makes games feel laggy and hard to play2012-01-04
- Default settings degrade images, and fixing them requires searching through menus2012-01-04