Thoughts about politics, economics, societal trends in our lives and anything else that tickles my fancy. In the Spring and Summer the Sacramento Rivercats become part of this rant.
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.
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.
ReplyDeleteI 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.