Tide Pods
I used Tide Pods one time, well actually almost one container, and decided I'm good to stick with powder. The clothes really didn't feel clean, but had more of a filmy texture to them. I have a newer belt-drive Whirlpool, but thankfully it's not an HE model, and with the options on it I can choose the water level and leave it set to Fabric Softener-On (which fills completely and does a traditional rinse cycle). I usually wash with warm water unless I have a load of more delicate darks, and for towels and whites, always hot (in which I flip the cold water outlet valve to almost a trickle to maximize the amount of true hot water entering), so even with washing with plenty of water and good temps, it seemed to have sub-par results. It wasn't until after I noticed a bluish film ring around the drum that I threw them out. I never had the stains on the clothing though, just the dinginess and the film in the machine.