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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.

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[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

It may be for the aesthetic rather than to stop people from tampering behind the TV.

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago

Neither would surprise me. Been in rooms where they threaten to charge anyone that unplugs an hdmi cable

[-] SaltySalamander@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

It's more likely that it's a theft deterrent.

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's a small TV anyway I couldn't enjoy watching anything on that

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

And very likely, the TV would be in Hotel lock mode and ignore any devices connected to it.

[-] bappity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

is it a plastic or some weak kind of frame or straight up cement/plaster? how completely unnecessary >_>

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I'm out of the hotel right now, and didn't pay much attention to it, but it seemed like wood

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