Fuck my prior preparation day with the Chromecast with Google TV before the hotel checking....
I don't travel too often so my Chromecast needed some tweaking (AKA updating system and apps etc), I like to take it as a travel companion and found out this shitty frame around the TV.
It is the first time it happened to me, I can see this being annoying for frequent travelers.
21 Comments
mp3@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 2y
I'd leave a terrible review solely based on this, fuck everything about that.
At least add an HDMI port below the TV as a part of the cabinet if you don't want customers to fiddle behind the TV..
cRazi_man@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
It may be for the aesthetic rather than to stop people from tampering behind the TV.
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org · 12 pts · 2y
Neither would surprise me. Been in rooms where they threaten to charge anyone that unplugs an hdmi cable
SaltySalamander@kbin.social · 5 pts · 2y
It's more likely that it's a theft deterrent.
linearchaos@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
I stayed at a hotel in California near San Francisco that did this. 2 days into my trip I figured out that they had mounted a remote plate around the corner and underneath.
user1234@lemmynsfw.com · 27 pts · 2y
The TV is innocent, it was framed!
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y
Last month I stayed at a W Hotel - Marriott’s upscale hotels. Their way to encourage paying for TV was to simply not even offer free internet access. I was there for a week and they wanted $75 for internet access. I pay that for a month of gigabit fiber at home.
_cnt0@unilem.org · 6 pts · 2y
Why does this photo(?) look like digital concept rendering from ~2000 without antialiasing?
kratoz29@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
Shitty light and shitty camera.... oh and shitty upload quality compression I guess.
_cnt0@unilem.org · 4 pts · 2y
It's actually a bug in my client (Boost): https://unilem.org/comment/1749581
SaltySalamander@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a8f1dd3c-6474-4000-9cf1-c1d76ef4c25d.jpeg
It doesn't.
_cnt0@unilem.org · 2 pts · 2y
Weird. Must be some scaling issue in Boost. It even looks like that when I view it full screen and zoom in:
Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
Back in the day they used to do similar things. I have disassembled, with tools, some hotel mountings and such, so I could hook up my Super Nintendo or PlayStation back then.
jet@hackertalks.com · 3 pts · 2y
I've stayed in hotels like that, but they usually have some panel or port somewhere with TV inputs.
hologram@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Tanza@kbin.social · 10 pts · 2y
definitely an option after a long day of already going out and exploring and being tired at 9pm
kratoz29@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
Of course, but I am not that adventurous to do that in CDMX at night.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 2y
And very likely, the TV would be in Hotel lock mode and ignore any devices connected to it.
sagrotan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
bappity@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
is it a plastic or some weak kind of frame or straight up cement/plaster? how completely unnecessary >_>
kratoz29@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
I'm out of the hotel right now, and didn't pay much attention to it, but it seemed like wood
downpunxx@kbin.social · 0 pts · 2y
Invest in a cheap amazon projector or large expensive tablet add one more thing you gotta schlep around on business trips
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 2y
That's a small TV anyway I couldn't enjoy watching anything on that