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You Shall Never Be Without HDTV Again

May 12, 2006 at 11:40 AM | 0 Comments

Are you addicted to watching all your favorite shows in high definition? Do you scoff at friends and family who have not bought an HDTV? Do you dread going on vacation because hotel televisions will not have HDTV or HDTV content?

Well, you're in luck. LodgeNet is planning to put HDTVs and HD channels in their 160,000 hotel rooms by year-end. And it's about time.  

The other day, Fat Mixx was staying at the Hotel Monaco in Seattle and became extremely dismayed by lack of HDTV content.

I was impressed to see a really nice LG flat screen TV (32LX3DC) sitting on the cabinet. The frustrating thing is that there are no HD channels at all. The TV defaults to 16×9 with regular cable coming in. So, every channel is stretched out and fuzzy. How silly is that?

And, of course, NFL Live just started on ESPN with the "Available on ESPNHD" message. It's just taunting me now....

Now you just have to figure out what hotels use the LodgeNet service.

Image via Rwest/Flickr

Related Stories:
· HDTV Content coming to a hotel near you [HDBeat]
· It's almost sad [Fat Mixx]