LodgeNet HD reaches 17,000 hotel rooms, offers HD VOD
By Darren Murph 
posted Jan 15th 2007 11:40PM
posted Jan 15th 2007 11:40PM
If you're going to travel, you might as well travel right. While LodgeNet made some stout promises concerning its rollout of HDTV services in 2006, it seems the company is actually following through, as it recently announced that its Signature HDTV services had been "contracted to over 80,000 hotel rooms and was deployed to more than 17,000 already." Additionally, those lucky enough to land a room with this luxury will notice that "around 20-percent" of the films on demand are of the HD variety. Although the size and model of the HDTV can vary from room to room, it's tough to complain about a widescreen flat-panel television that's pumpin' out 1080i when you're on the road, and just think, seeing "Free HBO" used to be all it took to swerve over to a given hotel. Kudos for raising that bar, LodgeNet.
How many flat panels output 1080i?
Most all HDTV plasmas output 1080i. 1080p is the rarity:
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6449_7-6361600-1.html
Wrong...most HDTV's are actually 720p (1280x720); the fact that they can display 1080i isn't really that useful...as it can't display all of those pixels, so it could actually be advantageous to use 720p as it is progressive.
Room price just went fifty bucks North ?