Hotels televisions are very limited. LG and Samsung want to solve it in a very simple way

Hotel televisions serve for rather little. As a general rule, these screens serve to see a handful of channels that may not be interested in theme or language, or to consult information about the hotel. Be that as it may, the reality is that if we want to see something before sleeping we depend quite the mobile, the tablet or the laptop. How to solve it? Very easy: activating Google Cast, something that LG and Samsung You will do on your televisions from now on.

Hotels and TVS. As a general rule, the televisions that we find in the hotels have activated the “Hospitality mode” or “Hotel Mode”. This mode serves to apply the same configuration to many televisions and limit functions such as the maximum volume, the canal list, the configuration menu, the installation of apps or Access to the HDMI port. On some occasions, the HDMI block is as simple as hitting the television to the wall.

Reasons for using this mode? Several. One is clear and it is to prevent some guests can bother others by putting the highest TV of the account, for example. Another is to prevent the user from being discharged, log in and forget about closing it and another, no less obvious, is that if the hotel has a system of Pay Per View open the HDMI port or the casting It means losing money.

The counterpart is that the host can be forgotten to connect a Fire TV stick or a chromect, a laptop or even a console that is the case. There are guides To unlock televisions, but perhaps it is not interesting to expose something wrong and you have to give explanations to the establishment.

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The Korean proposal. If the user wants to see something on TV, what less than to give him the option. Thus, LG and Samsung have chosen to open Google Cast on their next hotels. These will be presented at the ISE 2025 in a few days. This technology is already commonly used in all homes and, basically, allows content to be broadcast on the TV just by clicking a button. Google Cast adds to Apple Airplay, technology that reached TVs for LG hotels in 2023.

General recommendations. Be that as it may, it should not be forgotten that hotels wifi networks may not be so safe and/or robust as the network of our house. So, It is convenient to use a VPN whenever possible and avoid entering personal information.

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