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Apple TV App Comes to Philips MediaSuite Hotel Room TVs

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Apple's official TV app is now available to hotel guests whose rooms come with a Philips MediaSuite hospitality television set.
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PPDS, the global provider of Philips TV products for the hospitality market, has partnered with Apple to bring the TV app to Philips MediaSuite installed hotels, where guests can now gain access to their Apple TV+ subscription when away from home.

With the Apple TV app, travelers can watch original series and films from Apple TV+, get curated recommendations for what to watch, and pick up where they left off on the shows and movies they're currently watching.

The partnership adds to existing deals with other leading streaming providers, such as Netflix – coupled with 4K Chromecast built in – to offer hotel guests an extensive choice of streaming TV home entertainment.
"I am absolutely delighted that we can now offer access to the Apple TV app, which features Apple TV+, one of the world's most popular TV streaming services, to Philips MediaSuite," said Jeroen Verhaeghe, PPDS's international business manager for hospitality. "Bringing even more choice to hotel guests by allowing them to stream the content they enjoy, in the ways they want. Heightened by the pandemic, streaming services have never been more popular, so it's vital to PPDS and the hospitality industry to keep pace and meet the new needs of today's travelers with our Philips professional displays."
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The Apple TV app can be added to MediaSuite TVs through the Google Play store after the latest Philips MediaSuite firmware update has been installed.

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PPDS, the global provider of Philips TV products for the hospitality market
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This article reads weirdly like an ad.

("PPDS" is apparently "Philips Professional Display Solutions". Guessing they're preparing a spin-off since the actual Philips company doesn't seem interested in products any more.)

Smooch said:
The position of the tv in that image is really awkward...
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Everything in that room looks like death.
 
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As a VERY frequent traveler, it’s appalling what hotels are doing with their in-room TVs. In this day and age, they continue to lock down the external inputs, preventing guests from plugging their own devices in. The sets themselves tend to be in many cases old computer-style, low-rez monitors. The ports sometimes are difficult to reach due to nonsensical mounting methods. Over the years, I’ve become a television hacker, carrying my own programmable service remote and learning how to access the service menus. It’s absolutely ridiculous to have to go through this just to watch HBO from my iPad.

All of this might have made sense back when hotels offered pay-per-view channels, but those pretty much don’t exist any longer. I purposely search out hotels with accessible, modern TVs. I applaud this hotel chain for adding the Apple TV app, but I’d be curious how connect-able the sets themselves are.
 
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When did Apple TV+ become "one of the world's most popular TV streaming services" - I must have dozed off... We have no idea on subscriber numbers which Apple keeps extremely tight-lipped about. I have TV+ as part of my Apple One subscription but rarely dip into it ?
 
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I always carry a fire stick with us when we travel. I had trouble getting inputs switched a few days ago when we were in a hotel, but finally figured it out. I use Apple TVs at home but a $20 fire stick is perfect to keep packed in our luggage.
 
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That's a nice room, ruined by the tiny TV. Either don't put a TV at all or put a better one.

Looks photoshopped in actually.
 
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This is a very important rumor. Which guest would choose their hotel based on a television set after all?
 
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Apple's naming scheme strikes again. The Apple TV app gives you access to more than just Apple TV+. You can also access any of the subscription channels you purchased through Apple, along with any movies or tv shows you purchased including things that sync via MoviesAnywhere.
 
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As a VERY frequent traveler, it’s appalling what hotels are doing with their in-room TVs. In this day and age, they continue to lock down the external inputs, preventing guests from plugging their own devices in. The sets themselves tend to be in many cases old computer-style, low-rez monitors. The ports sometimes are difficult to reach due to nonsensical mounting methods. Over the years, I’ve become a television hacker, carrying my own programmable service remote and learning how to access the service menus. It’s absolutely ridiculous to have to go through this just to watch HBO from my iPad.

All of this might have made sense back when hotels offered pay-per-view channels, but those pretty much don’t exist any longer. I purposely search out hotels with accessible, modern TVs. I applaud this hotel chain for adding the Apple TV app, but I’d be curious how connect-able the sets themselves are.
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I defnitely enjoy hotel rooms that allow me access to the TV as a monitor. It makes all the difference when I want to watch the content I want to watch and when I want to work as well.
 
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So how exactly is this supposed to work? Do I log in with my iCloud credentials and then try to remember to log out before leaving?

i notice that the “smart TVs” with build in Netflix invariably are already logged in to a previous guest’s account when I check in. I sometimes leave it playing soft core videos on Netflix when I leave the room as a way of helping tune the recommendation engine for them.
 
That photo is a luxury hotel room, right? You Americans don’t really live in houses as big as those on your TV shows, right?
 
garylapointe said:
I don’t want it have to login with my email/password on a device that isn’t mine, I want it to give me a code that I can use on MY device to authenticate.
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Not sure about this specifically but I had to login to the Apple TV app on my LG tv yesterday and it showed a QR code which I scanned with my iPhone and it activated the app.
 
jjudson said:
As a VERY frequent traveler, it’s appalling what hotels are doing with their in-room TVs. In this day and age, they continue to lock down the external inputs, preventing guests from plugging their own devices in. The sets themselves tend to be in many cases old computer-style, low-rez monitors. The ports sometimes are difficult to reach due to nonsensical mounting methods. Over the years, I’ve become a television hacker, carrying my own programmable service remote and learning how to access the service menus. It’s absolutely ridiculous to have to go through this just to watch HBO from my iPad.

All of this might have made sense back when hotels offered pay-per-view channels, but those pretty much don’t exist any longer. I purposely search out hotels with accessible, modern TVs. I applaud this hotel chain for adding the Apple TV app, but I’d be curious how connect-able the sets themselves are.
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Why even care or bother about any of this? Doesn’t everyone just carry a laptop around for traveling and can watch whatever the hell they want?
 
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