This thread on Hacker News terrifies me

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday, September 1, 2018 6:46:38 AM MDT rikki cattermole via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 02/09/2018 12:21 AM, tide wrote:
> > On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 05:53:12 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> >> On 01/09/2018 12:40 PM, tide wrote:
> >>> On Friday, 31 August 2018 at 22:42:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> >>>> On 8/31/2018 2:40 PM, tide wrote:
> >>>>> I don't think I've ever had a **game** hung up in a black screen
> >>>>> and not be able to close it.
> >>>>
> >>>> I've had that problem with every **DVD player** I've had in the last
> >>>> 20 years. Power cycling is the only fix.
> >>>
> >>> Two very different things, odds are your DVD players code aren't even
> >>> written with a complete C compiler or libraries.
> >>
> >> And yet they manage to run a JVM with Java on it.
> >
> > Not the one's Walter is talking about. I rarely have to power cycle any
> > smart device, even my phone which is running so much shit on it.
>
> For some reason I have memories related to DVD players containing a JVM
> to provide interactivity. But it doesn't look like those memory were
> based on anything. So ignore me.

I don't know if any DVD players have ever used Java, but all Blu-ray players
do require it, because unfortunately, the Blu-ray spec allows for the menus
to be done via Java (presumably so that they can be fancier than what was
possible on DVDs).

- Jonathan M Davis