Adam Bowie, exchanging with Kevin M., in part: > > >> > 1. Barely any hotel or motel has any kind of understanding of aspect >>> rations. They all have widescreen TVs, but mostly they're somehow >>> stretching the picture wrongly even though it too is widescreen. And this >>> has very little bearing on how expensive or not the room is. The best >>> adjusted TV I came across was in a dirt cheap motel. (I'd have a moan about >>> HD downgraded to analogue SD before it gets delivered to the room's HD TV, >>> but that'd be too easy). >>> >> >> This has to do with the type of feed the cable companies sell to hotels >> and motels. Because they have to run through internal distribution >> amplifiers, they aren't typically sent the latest and greatest signals >> because hotel systems have to rescramble them to send to individual rooms. >> In all likelihood, the cheap motel where you experienced decent TV was >> probably due to them being too cheap to have their own dist. amps. so they >> just paid for standard cable for each room. >> > > I pretty much thought that was the case. Most hotels are too cheap to put > new systems in that handle things like aspect ratio correctly. Even quite > big ones. > > Funnily enough, it seems like places that have DirecTV do the best job. It > might be that DirecTV just do most of the work themselves when they sign up > a hotel. Needless to say, everyone has remote that mean you can't really > fiddle with settings or change aspect ratios. >
Kev, the cablers, at least big guys like Comcast and TW, have to be working on updating this sitch if they haven't already. They can't value the travelers any less than any other viewer. B -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
