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A few thoughts... I rolled my eyes when I first saw it. Another silly gadget when my Roku does just fine. At some point it just becomes too stupidly small, rig

by cjoh 15y ago

A few thoughts... I rolled my eyes when I first saw it. Another silly gadget when my Roku does just fine. At some point it just becomes too stupidly small, right? Then I watched the video where he plugs it into the hotel TV and it all made sense. As someone who probably rents overpriced hotel movies about 4 times a year, this device may pay for itself relatively quickly. Built-in Bluetooth you say? I wonder if I can pair a keyboard to it... Also -- come to think of it, Google's best marketing strategy for GoogleTV might be to get widespread hotel adoption for it. It'd be a huge convenience for me to be able to, when I get to a hotel, simply auth myself into GoogleTV and have my whole experience personalized.

georgemcbay 15y ago
That would be great for GoogleTV (and great for the user) but I can't imagine hotels signing up unless they got some money from Google out of usage even in the case where the user buys nothing new while at the hotel. If I've got a bunch of stuff stored to Google Movies or UltraViolet or whatever and I watch that via GoogleTV instead of buying a PPV movie via the hotel's existing system, that's no good for the hotel.
nantes 15y ago
I think that is a really interesting idea. However, in my previous position I worked to help get a local chain hotel some bandwidth beyond their dedicated T1 connection. That's right, they had more than 50 rooms plus the hotels staff all using a 1.544mbps connection. They were ecstatic that we were talking about bringing in 20mbps via fixed wireless. However, there was tons and tons of red-tape with their corporate IT department. Moral of the story: the infrastructure is so uneven that using GoogleTV in hotels will be really hit and miss. Unless, they do it in Kansas City with Google Fiber ...

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A few thoughts... I rolled my eyes when I first saw it. Another silly gadget when my Roku does just fine. At some point it just becomes too stupidly small, rig

by cjoh 15y ago

georgemcbay 15y ago
That would be great for GoogleTV (and great for the user) but I can't imagine hotels signing up unless they got some money from Google out of usage even in the case where the user buys nothing new while at the hotel. If I've got a bunch of stuff stored to Google Movies or UltraViolet or whatever and I watch that via GoogleTV instead of buying a PPV movie via the hotel's existing system, that's no good for the hotel.
nantes 15y ago
I think that is a really interesting idea. However, in my previous position I worked to help get a local chain hotel some bandwidth beyond their dedicated T1 connection. That's right, they had more than 50 rooms plus the hotels staff all using a 1.544mbps connection. They were ecstatic that we were talking about bringing in 20mbps via fixed wireless. However, there was tons and tons of red-tape with their corporate IT department. Moral of the story: the infrastructure is so uneven that using GoogleTV in hotels will be really hit and miss. Unless, they do it in Kansas City with Google Fiber ...