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January 24, 2004
Pining for plasma
Not a week after reading this Wall Street Journal article about hotels installing flat screen TVs in their rooms, I experienced it.
Last week, I stayed at the Millennium Hilton in New York City. The hotel's website said it had 42-inch plasma screens in every room. OK, I'm there!
Upon check-in, the hotel assigned me a lovely corner room on the 26th floor, huge for New York standards. The view was spectacular. But no plasma TV! A call to the front desk brought the explanation that corner rooms have too many windows, making it difficult to install a large plasma TV anywhere. (Perhaps the hotel could examine this concept: television screens built inside window panes.)
Call me crazy, but I would rather have a smaller room with a plasma TV than a corner room with a view. A transfer to a new room brought me into close proximity with one of these shimmering plasma beauties. Was it worth it? It was very cool, to say the least. Here's a pic:
If high-end TV manufacturers are not subsidizing their expensive plasma and LCD TVs for hotels, they should be. It's a perfect bite-size chunk, a way to experience a product -- in this case, a $4,000 investment -- without having to take a $4,000 risk.
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I can't imagine any High End Hotel nor having a plasma or LCD in the room anymore. They are so affordable now and the rooms aren't cheap!
