Monday, January 09, 2012
Hotel TVs
I stay in hotels a lot. In the first 9 days of this year I have been in hotel rooms for a third of them. But as time has gone on I am less likely to turn on the TV. There are a couple of reasons. Most hotels now have some form of WIFI so when I get back to my room I am often more interested in using my laptop than in watching the TV - even though most hotel TVs are flatscreen and high resolution. Second, most hotel TVs have a set of options most of which I do not find appealing. They include some relatively recent movies (I carry a half dozen movies a want to watch on my iPad); a soft porn channel; a set of games (have them on my laptop or my iPad); and regular TV channels. Even though many have a guide somewhere in the room - it is always a hassle to flip through the 30 or so channels that are a mix of local and national (CNN, ESPN 1-7, Fox, etc) that quite frankly I do not watch at home. SO when I get back to my room the TV does not go on because it is not worth the hassle. I wonder what percentage of hotel guests never turn on their TV.
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Hotel TVs are ubiquitous. I use the sort of tv available as a reference of quality. If a hotel advertises 42 inch flat screens with ipod and mp3 players, I feel better. Bedbugs hate flatscreens. Now if the television is an analog chained on the upper wall, well I tend to stay away.
I never watch the tv either and somehow I always feel ripped off when I leave since I never got to see the tv that I paid for.
sigh.
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