The Best Television System for Hotels, Hospitals and Multiple Dwelling Units

A (SMATV) Satellite Master Antenna Television or (CATV) Community Access Television can go a long way in a Free to Guest atmosphere. These systems are usually referenced when a Hotel, Hospital or large multiple dwelling complex needs television service from a satellite provider like DIRECTV and DISH Network or Cable Company like Time Warner and Charter Communications. Also known as a Headend, these systems are ideal for large businesses and properties because the equipment works within the buildings own infrastructure.

Today, these systems can be found in Hotels, Hospitals, Casinos, Prisons and Nursing Homes or virtually anywhere there's a multiple dwelling unit. The Video Signal is commonly sent out over a distribution network to each monitor or television set. Service is generally accessible with the room's television remote control.

There are typically two forms of service being distributed to every room.

Free to Guest service may include:

Up to 100 Channels

Cable or Satellite programming

Local Stations

Digital Standard or High Definition

Cable and Satellite Services are generally Free to Guest as additional charges are not passed along directly to the consumer. Second, Interactive Television is commonly used as an interface media that is stacked together with the cable or satellite channels for an unforgettable in-room entertainment.

Interactive Services may include:

Hotel or Hospital Welcome Screen

Hotel or Hospital Services - Bill Summary, Check Out, Room Service, Laundry, etc.

Information Channel that displays news, weather and local information

Video On Demand

Internet, Messaging and Email

Video Games & Fun Activities

Applications like Twitter, Facebook and other social networks

Internet Television or rental services like Netflix and Hulu

Option to shop for Hotel Amenities, products and services

Common SMATV and CATV Signal Distribution Configurations

L-Band - requires a set-top box for every room, no modulation necessary

Pro:Idiom - distributes High Definition over coaxial cable with digital encryption to Flat Panel Monitors

IPTV - internet protocol television delivered over the internet

FTA - free to air from local towers

Today, most hotels and hospitals are just wired with coaxial cables. A Headend Television System can be distributed over coaxial cables via L-Band or Audio Video Modulation must considered for the system. Modulation will needed for SMATV, CATV, and Pro-Idiom Technologies.

Programming options include Standard and/or High Definition channels including: Local Stations, News, Kids, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Latino, Learning, Movies, Music, and Sports. Monthly charges are generally based upon drop count. When you choose a programming lineup, it is the type of channels you want to display that determines the price of the package. For example, say you wanted local stations, movies, and sports. The package price is $5 per drop. If you drop movies, the package would be $2 less per drop monthly, even though it's the same amount of drops your saving money each month. Take the final package price and multiply it by the number of drops (beds or rooms) and your figure will equal the price per month, less tax.

Why invest in a SMATV System?

Become your own operator and buy only the channels you want. Own your own equipment and stop paying lease fees. Utilize you current infrastructure and save money!
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Points to Bear in Mind During the Installation of a Home Theatre System

Why do you purchase a home theatre system? It is to get a cinema hall kind of effect, so you need to do everything right to create that kind of effect. First and foremost you need to choose the appropriate room to set-up your home theatre system. Nowadays television is a major source of entertainment in many households, especially where there are elderly or home-bound people, who are unable to go the cinema theatre to watch their favourite movies. The major advantage of a television is that on it you not only watch movies, but serials or matches you love. You can also save time and money. So once your room is finalised, bring the best home theatre home after doing the research well online or by getting information from your friends.

So basically these are the points to bear in mind while installing your home theatre system.

1) Planning your set-up - Planning your set-up is very important like I said before, as to which room you are going to set-up your home system, especially if you have teenagers, elderly people etc. It should be set-up in a room where it does not create hindrance for each one of them while performing their routine activities like when you or anybody else is watching the television it shouldn't be a hindrance to study for the teenager and vice-versa.

2) Choosing a dark room - The next point is you should be choosing a darker room for installing your home theatre system and if a brightly lit room is one, which you find most suitable you must either put curtains or drapes to make it dark.

3) Placing the home theatre system straight in the line of your view - The alignment of the television screen should be such that the centre of the screen is in line with the view of the seated person.

4) Central Channel Speaker - The central channel speaker should be placed above or below the television. If it is placed on the top you must make sure that the front edge of the speaker is aligned with the front of the television screen.

5) The speakers are placed at an equal distance from the television - It is very important that the right and left speakers are placed at an equal distances on either side of the television facing the front. The height should be also be in alignment with the height of your central speaker.

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Smart TV Users Lack System Intelligence

A recent YouGov survey into the use of smart TV sets in the UK has revealed that, amongst other key statistics for connected TV viewing, almost half of owners do not know what a smart TV is designed for.

In a general survey of 2,000 panel members (1,300 of which owned a smart TV set), YouGov found that while around 25% of UK viewers currently use an on-demand service to cover most of their shows, only 8% of those questioned in the first Smart TV Tracker survey claimed to own one, with a further 7% intending to buy one in the near future (this figure rose to 14% in Wales, showing a clearer interest in the format in that country).

However, only 53% of those smart TV owners actually managed to summarise what a smart TV is for (a TV able to connect to the internet (without external devices)), meaning that 47% were not up-to-speed with the main attraction of their living room. Meanwhile, 91% of viewers were unaware of what ‘apps’ were available for smart TV, while 97% did not know that apps for BBC iPlayer and YouTube were amongst them (96% showed a similar lack of knowledge that social networking website Facebook was available in app form for connected TV).

A key purpose of smart TV which more people seem to be aware of, though, is on-demand viewing, a practice said to be done more regularly (than watching on ‘linear schedules’) by 35% of viewers, with those numbers rising in the cases of young adults (18-24 demographic) and ‘family’ households.

The picture above shows the results of a multiple-choice survey on why users bought a smart TV, with the leading reasons (as more than one was allowed to be selected) being the desire to have a more ‘up-to-date’ set (56%) and high picture quality (47%), with other varied reasons featured including connecting to the internet or another device (27% & 17%), replacing a broken set (22%), and the digital switchover (14%).

YouGov ‘media consulting director for financial services and media’ Dan Brilot said of the findings: “These figures show that Britons are entering into a new paradigm in the way that TV is consumed – ‘TV 2.0'. TV 2.0 is all about consumers rather than schedulers deciding what to watch and when; whilst linear TV is still at the core of most things that most people we watch, the next generation who are growing up with the internet’s new mode of serving and searching content will increasingly focus their viewing attention to on-demand services.”

Further multiple-choice questions found that 57% usually watch whilst doing something else, despite the fact that 47% claimed TV watching ’is a big part of my life’. For added viewing experiences, 29% regularly using ‘Red Button services’ for additional content, while 23% claimed to choose content based on recommendations from the smart TV set. With fairly inconclusive results over the state of the average smart TV viewer, is the landscape of viewing changing, or are TV audiences as unassuming and potentially unpredictable as ever?

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