What's worst is the black screen in between the channel switch. If you used to watch TV with your lights off, you now stop doing that.

Yeah, I remember when that first started happening, and I agree it was really frustrating. The funny thing is that I no longer channel surf, so I no longer hit this. I realized the other day that I haven't watched cable TV in a long time. My TiVo is empty and has been for a long time, but I watch TV every night using streaming devices instead.

> The funny thing is that I no longer channel surf

The cynical side of my brain feels that this is exactly what TV stations and show producers wanted. If it's fast and easy to spin the dial and maybe stop on a competitor (and more importantly, watch their ads instead of yours) then you have to put our quality product and not annoy the customer with as many loud and irritating ads, which means that you don't make as much money from the content that bookends your ads.

This is my new favorite "first world problem".

The worst is they "fixed" it with "digital knobs" now. But due to anti-glitching logic, they are still not as responsive as you want and annoying to use. Especially volume controls.

There's nothing quite as annoying as having to use the cheapest rotary encoder, that already feels like shit, but the firmware is also polling it incredibly slowly, and is debouncing it incorrectly, and it probably bounces like hell, so not only does it feel bad to use it, but it actually doesn't work half the time and goes a step or two in the wrong direction, even if you spin it evenly into the other.

These things are like these fake volume controls reddit made up.