{"id":412,"date":"2007-04-04T08:40:25","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T15:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/hd-hotel\/"},"modified":"2007-04-11T22:45:02","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T05:45:02","slug":"hd-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/hd-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"HD Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IMDb reports: <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/news\/sb\/2007-04-02\/#film5\">High-Definition Movies Coming to Hotel Rooms<\/a>. The story says that the capability will be provided by an outfit named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nstreams.com\/\">nSTREAMS<\/a>; they presently produce all kinds of large boxes that provide multimedia entertainment to hotels, hospitals, schools, and karaoke bars. I don&#8217;t see any boxes on their website that specifically tout HD support, but they must be coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>I gained a small interest in these hotel-based entertainment solutions just recently when I came across a thorough investigation of something called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripoint.org\/kevtris\/mappers\/famicombox\/index.html\">Famicombox<\/a>, apparently a pay-per-play <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nintendo_Entertainment_System\">NES<\/a> solution installed in hotel rooms a long time ago. These systems never made it to the U.S., but there were successors at least in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nintendo_64\">N64<\/a> generation and I believe for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System\">SNES<\/a> as well. I think PlayStation might have gotten in on the hotel action as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMDb reports: High-Definition Movies Coming to Hotel Rooms. The story says that the capability will be provided by an outfit named nSTREAMS; they presently produce all kinds of large boxes that provide multimedia entertainment to hotels, hospitals, schools, and karaoke bars. I don&#8217;t see any boxes on their website that specifically tout HD support, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multimedia-presswatch"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}