Your Hotel Room's Fancy Flatscreen Ain't Nothin' Without HD Service
Ever notice how sometimes your hotel room's fancy flatscreen TV has a bit of a craptastic picture quality? You know the deal: stretched-sideways images, low resolution picture? The dudes of Gossip Girl look significantly wider and less attractive -- albeit ever-so-slightly -- than normal?
That's cause hotels are buying those sleek flatscreen TV's -- and not springing for the HD service to go along with them.
Today's New York Times reports that while many hotels are making the shift to more modern flatscreen televisions (thank you!), budget constraints are keeping a pretty hefty number of properties from offering the HD service to match. As a result, what we get is the standard square-shaped picture from the old tube TV sets...except stretched out and low-resolution. Lame.
According to the article, hotels are installing the flatscreen TV's because it's what consumers are generally installing in their homes nowadays, but the cost of putting in HDTV service adds up to around $100,000 per property -- which is a bit too much for many hotels to bear right now.
We get that these businesses have finite funds to spend on upgrades like this, but it's kinda like drinking boxed wine out of fine crystal stemware, isn't it? Maybe? Or was that analogy a big stretch -- like the picture on a nice flatscreen with not-nice service? HA.
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