Hotel D* - how do they do that?

[JEFFinINDY]

I'm staying at a Holiday Inn Express this week, and the LG TV in my room has DirecTV along with a DirecTV remote. I push the guide button and it comes up with the normal blue and black guide and it looks like any DirecTV receiver. The box has a single coax cable running from the wall to the TV and most of the channels are in HD.

What kind of TV or set up do they have to make this possible to work in HD without a box?

 

[Big Dawg 23]

It's probably an RF remote to a box on the floor. I stayed at a Hilton Garden that had Directv and guide but a standard TV remote. I like when it's same channel numbers to prevent searching.


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[goaliebob99]

It's probably an RF remote to a box on the floor. I stayed at a Hilton Garden that had Directv and guide but a standard TV remote. I like when it's same channel numbers to prevent searching. Posted Via The FREE SatelliteGuys Reader App!

Nope, it's a RVU setup. The tv is the receiver. LG TVs can do this.

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[JEFFinINDY]

It's interesting that a lot of channels show up in the guide but some are missing like BTN and FS1. But if I tune to those channel numbers directly it works.

 

[Jam3s]

Do hotels do RVU? I thought it would be some kind of commercial install...

 

[JEFFinINDY]

There's also a Holiday Inn logo next to the channel logo:

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Could be a ProIdium (Hope I spelled that correctly) setup as well.

 

[goaliebob99]

Do hotels do RVU? I thought it would be some kind of commercial install...

They do its a commercial version of it, programmed for the hotel specifically.

 

[Sparkman]

I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express in Georgetown, KY that has the same setup. It just remodeled and was converted from a Holiday Inn to a Holiday Inn Express.

 

[Claude Greiner]

It's called a DRE system. Basically all the receivers are networked together, and the receiver is built into the television, or in some cases mounted behind the television or dresser.

There is a central server in the building that is tied to the check in system.

When you check out the receiver is reset to factory defaults.

Also if the hotel has DVR in each room, the system will clear the DVR play list upon checking out.

 

[Jimbo]

It's called a DRE system. Basically all the receivers are networked together, and the receiver is built into the television, or in some cases mounted behind the television or dresser.

There is a central server in the building that is tied to the check in system.

When you check out the receiver is reset to factory defaults.

Also if the hotel has DVR in each room, the system will clear the DVR play list upon checking out.

Interesting ....

 

[Claude Greiner]

I'm actually certified to install these types of systems.

Not really different than a residential system, just requires a decca for every 8 receivers and then all the deccas get networked together with eithernet or fiber switches.

Then 1 big central server behind the front desk

 

[Pinoyxprss]

I've only seen old DRE systems using bunch of D12's each brodcasting one channel to all TVs in the hotel. No access to channel guide, just standard TV channels. You wont even know its directv when ur watching.