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Of course, most are playing the cost card as the reason why they have yet to offer up any HD channels on those wasted HDTVs, although not all hope is lost. At Hilton, you can expect each and every room to have a flat-panel TV and HDTV service by June of 2009, and LodgeNet, which began offering high-definition service in 2005, expects to add a half million new HD-served rooms this year alone. Please, travel venues -- don't force us to watch stretch-o-vision while away from home. [From: NY Times]
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsAngiebabySep 16th 2008 1:34PM
Hope the airline managers don't see this. Just imagine the cost savings by charging passengers a mandatory fee for updated technical entertainment services, but "neglecting" to have the services started up for the fleet! That is income without expense. Damn. I should charge the airline managers for my financial services!
Scott KochmanSep 16th 2008 2:48PM
Boston Intercontinental anyone?
toniSep 16th 2008 3:00PM
The upscale hotel I was at was so bad, youcould barely make out any station through the static. Forget HD, I think they had the flat screen hooked up to bunny ears in the lobby.
ROBSep 16th 2008 4:45PM
Good grief. Just goes to show how spoiled most Americans have become. What is wrong with a regular tv with HD programming.
SteveSep 16th 2008 7:56PM
Uhhh--maybe it's because you can't see expensive HD programming on a non-HD set....?
JLSep 16th 2008 11:46PM
Mom???....is that you running the hotels???????
My 80 yr old mother has this same tech problem.
She wants a sleek new flat screen with HD....but just can't wrap her mind around the concept that she has to have a "clunky old box" that increases her monthly bill to go with it, that enables the technology.
To her,if the TV says "HDTV"....well....what else could she be watching????? :D
katSep 18th 2008 11:26AM
I LOVE YOUR MOM!! I am in my 30's and feel the same way! :)
MichelleSep 16th 2008 5:23PM
who goes on vacation just to sit in a hotel room watching TV? -- get a life!
and if it's a business trip, shouldn't your business take precedence over the TV schedule?
PatrickSep 16th 2008 6:03PM
Michelle,
I spend about 80 nights a year in hotels for business and yes, I do watch TV in my room, at night. I spend my days doing "business" and my nights are not always spent wining and dining clients or studiously working on my laptop but just vegging out after a long day on the road. If you are a road warrior some of the amenities in a hotel are quite important. I don't watch a ton of TV but after paying $100-$150 a night in a hotel I think it is fair to demand a TV that works properly and actually has some decent reception and a good HD channel selection.
GerrySep 16th 2008 6:27PM
I was furious when the beautiful flat screen picture in a lovely motel room, squeezed the picture so that I couldn't see the score of the football game I was watching last Sunday. It also did not show the scores of the other games in progress. I will never stay in a room with a flat screen TV , when I'm trying to watch a sporting event.
Road-WearySep 16th 2008 6:41PM
I don't give a rat's hindquarters if the room has HDTVs, CDs, BVDs, or the Heebie-Jeebies. First, television programming, regardless of pixel power, is for children and morons and, second, all I really want is a good night's sleep on clean sheets. Thank you, and good night.
FanfootSep 17th 2008 12:58AM
Ummm... you know you're reading a technology blog right?
BethSep 16th 2008 7:51PM
Seriously?
BearSep 16th 2008 8:17PM
Roadweary--That is the funniest comment I have read in a long time. I am seriously laughing out loud. I dont really care about the TV either. I usually take a good book with me when i settle in for the night.
steveSep 16th 2008 8:29PM
HD is over-rated. There are more important issues in the world than whether or not your tv has HD, as example; should you squeeze the charmin?. Its not important in any way what so ever. If it matters to you, you need to get your head out of your ass and look at what is going on in the whole world. Not what is going on in your hotel room.
I am ashamed of my country when I hear stuff like this. HD was developed as another way to take earned dollars away from you. No other reason. How sad we have become.
FanfootSep 17th 2008 1:01AM
I feel ashamed of my country when I see comments like this from people online. In other countries people would have more empathy, and wouldn't use their ability to post anonymously to disparage other people and make them feel bad. Sir, you should be ashamed of yourself!
cathy rohrscheibSep 17th 2008 8:45PM
i was in a hotel once that had only a few channels .believe it or not there is a time you want a chill an for what you pay you should have a selection than one channel thats a hoot.hd is a waste then give me reg model
GregSep 17th 2008 8:50PM
Hogwash...I'm going to the stove to get my corn on the cob!
greg belter
ryan zyskowskiOct 10th 2008 9:34PM
You idiot, where did any mention of the wynn come from? You dummy. How do you go from thinking that because that room resembles one of any number of hotels that they are talking about one specifically? From there, how do you assume that they are making any sort of implications about said hotel?
Talk about creating something out of nothing. Incidentally, you clearly do not know what constitutes the definition of libal as far as the eyes of the law go. You shouldn't be talking about libal when you have no idea what it is while you agressively defend a hotel that no one is talking about.
You stupid fool.
ryan zyskowskiSep 19th 2008 9:22AM
Oooooh, Mr. Wynn loves these kind of battles, ooooh, journalists everywhere be SCARED!!! Mr. Wynn LOVES these kind of BATTLES... .....ooooooooh.
So listen up aol, you'd better be careful about what picture that you pick for your articles, because if it resembles ANYTHING at all, than SOMEONE will take issue with it and there will be A BATTLE, possible with the POWERFUL and THREATENING Mr. Wynnn, ooooooooh.