Brought my Chromecast with Google TV to a Hotel, TV is framed.

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.

user1234,

The TV is innocent, it was framed!

Mnemnosyne,

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.

downpunxx,
@downpunxx@kbin.social avatar

Invest in a cheap amazon projector or large expensive tablet add one more thing you gotta schlep around on business trips

hologram,

Go out and explore?

Tanza,
@Tanza@kbin.social avatar

definitely an option after a long day of already going out and exploring and being tired at 9pm

kratoz29,

Of course, but I am not that adventurous to do that in CDMX at night.

Ghostalmedia,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

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.

bappity,
@bappity@lemmy.world avatar

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

kratoz29,

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

mp3,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

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,

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

goferking0,

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

SaltySalamander,
@SaltySalamander@kbin.social avatar

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

linearchaos,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Jimmycakes,

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

_cnt0,
@_cnt0@unilem.org avatar

Why does this photo(?) look like digital concept rendering from ~2000 without antialiasing?

kratoz29,

Shitty light and shitty camera… oh and shitty upload quality compression I guess.

_cnt0,
@_cnt0@unilem.org avatar

It’s actually a bug in my client (Boost): unilem.org/comment/1749581

SaltySalamander,
@SaltySalamander@kbin.social avatar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a8f1dd3c-6474-4000-9cf1-c1d76ef4c25d.jpeg

It doesn't.

_cnt0,
@_cnt0@unilem.org avatar

Weird. Must be some scaling issue in Boost. It even looks like that when I view it full screen and zoom in:

https://unilem.org/pictrs/image/7718bcf7-94dd-4e65-a611-03f8a0a8fbf0.png

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