Here is a round up of televisions we encountered in the various places we stayed on our recent road trip. Why? Because, why not?
Carson City – Holiday Inn Express – A decade old LG 27″ TV without an onscreen guide or even a cheesy little printed and laminated one. We were reduced to scrolling through endlessly, hoping to come in on something that would identify what channel we were on.
Ely – Holiday Inn Express – A nice newer LG 43″ TV that must have been connected via satellite because there was about a 5 second delay between settling on a channel and getting a picture. Once again no onscreen guide or printed one, but at least the TV showed the channel name in the upper left.
Moab – Scenic View Inn – Beautiful new 50″ Samsung TV hampered by being paired with the lowest tier cable package that didn’t have any HD channels. And with what is becoming a standard, no onscreen guide or printed one.
Santa Fe – La Casa de Sally – A nice new 43″ LG TV with no cable that is usually set on YouTube with round the world web cams accompanied by soft background music. No channel guide required as all it had were some apps.
Flagstaff – Holiday Inn Express – An older LG 43″ TV that is HD with HD channels and an onscreen guide, but it has a replacement remote. The down side was that it had a volume that is either too soft on 2 or too loud on 3, I don’t know if it is the remote or the TV.
Beatty – Death Valley Inn – A 27″ Westinghouse TV that looks like it is the same vintage as that TV back in Carson City. Looks similar in shape too, maybe even made in the same Chinese factory. The remote seems to only work less than 5 feet away from the TV, but we did get an laminated channel guide…for all 12 channels.
Carson City – Holiday Inn Express – A decade old LG 27″ TV just like the first one at this hotel on the way down, but with one key improvement, it does display the channel names. But, we don’t care because we are watching a replay of the 3rd round of the Masters on the laptop.