This thread on Hacker News terrifies me

[rikki cattermole]

On 02/09/2018 1:15 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> 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

Harry potter 1&2 had games as part of their menus as of 2001/2, so it 
was already pretty sophisticated.