LG to Bring AirPlay to Hotel Room TVs Later This Year

[MacRumors]

LG Electronics will be one of the first TV manufacturers to support Apple's AirPlay expansion, which will see Apple bringing easy access AirPlay to hotel room TVs.

In a press release (via ZDNET), LG said that later this year, it will introduce LG Pro:Centric Smart Hotel TVs that include built-in AirPlay technology.

"This is a major advancement for in-room entertainment in the travel and hospitality industry, and underscores how closely we are listening to the needs of consumers who increasingly demand simple access to their personal media options on the biggest screen, wherever they are," said LG Business Solutions hospitality vice president Michael Kosla. "Hotels that offer this feature will have an immediate leg up with travelers who use Apple devices, boosting guest satisfaction while providing real differentiation from local competition."

LG worked with Apple to make an easy-to-use AirPlay solution. iPhone users will be able to scan a QR code to access AirPlay, allowing them to to securely play content from an iPhone or iPad to a hotel room TV with no need for extra equipment. LG says AirPlay will work on the TVs it is releasing this year as well as "recent year's models."

Apple at WWDC said that it is partnering with select hotels to bring AirPlay to supported television sets. IHG Hotels & Resorts, which operates 6,000 locations worldwide, will be one of the first companies to support AirPlay in its hotels.

Article Link: LG to Bring AirPlay to Hotel Room TVs Later This Year

 

[jjudson]

You mean I can stop my weekly training on "How to be a Hotel TV Hacker" just so I can watch my own stuff...?

 

[Apple Fan 2008]

I've seen Chromecast in hotels before. It's about time that we can use Airplay instead.

 

[Justin Cymbal]

This is such a great feature!

I hope that more hotels add this in the future

Apple keeps partnering with various hotels to add more awesome features - Last year, Apple added the ability to unlock your hotel room with your iPhone:

I’ve taken my Apple TV with me when I’ve stayed at hotels in the past to set up at my hotel room and watch sports games but it will now be so much easier to be able to AirPlay pictures or YouTube videos without needing to set up my own Apple TV

 

[Solomani]

Very good move LG!

 

[gaximus]

Everything else equal, I’m choosing the place with built in Apple AirPlay.

 

[jz0309]

Well, wouldn’t a visionPro be better for a hotel room???
/s

 

[icanhazmac]

Call me skeptical but I don't know what the hotels or LG has to gain from this... without Airplay they harvest data from people that (stupidly) log in to their streaming services. I'm not sure what either has to gain from Airplay. 🤔

 

[falkon-engine]

Samsung should follow suit.

 

[SFjohn]

Call me skeptical but I don't know what the hotels or LG has to gain from this... without Airplay they harvest data from people that (stupidly) log in to their streaming services. I'm not sure what either has to gain from Airplay. 🤔

Did you actually read the article? 👀

 

[newyorksole]

Samsung should follow suit.

eewww

 

[zapmymac]

I’ve stayed at 2 different tiers of Marriott hotels in the last 12 months, and both had LG 📺📺 and horrible Netflix and Prime Video interfaces.

No way I will log into their systems with my private credentials and assume they will honor the logout and wipe cookies process!

I always bring either my Roku Premiere+ (2016)[works perfectly] or my backup tv and hook into Ethernet.

Roku works hands-down better.


I’ve only had to request once for the wired access fee [🙄🤯😠🤑] to be waived, and that was 6 years ago at another but different Marriott.

Also, I always bring along my AirPort Express. I have the will, therefore, there will be a way.

 

[apparatchik]

I’ve stayed at 2 different tiers of Marriott hotels in the last 12 months, and both had LG 📺📺 and horrible Netflix and Prime Video interfaces.

No way I will log into their systems with my private credentials and assume they will honor the logout and wipe cookies process!

I always bring either my Roku Premiere+ (2016)[works perfectly] or my backup tv and hook into Ethernet.

Roku works hands-down better.


I’ve only had to request once for the wired access fee [🙄🤯😠🤑] to be waived, and that was 6 years ago at another but different Marriott.

Also, I always bring along my AirPort Express. I have the will, therefore, there will be a way.

This is the way.

/s

 

[Longplays]

Hotels should prefer guests that can do $429-1599 smartphones.

 

[G5isAlive]

Call me skeptical but I don't know what the hotels or LG has to gain from this... without Airplay they harvest data from people that (stupidly) log in to their streaming services. I'm not sure what either has to gain from Airplay. 🤔

Loyal paying customers.

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

Guess who pays for all those brand new, expensive Hotel TV's? Yep. Us, in the form of increased room rates.
Once most hotels have them, so much for "providing real differentiation from local competition."

I remember back in the day when hotels who hung out the "HBO" sign got the business. Now, who give a s$#*.

 

[iGeneo]

Call me skeptical but I don't know what the hotels or LG has to gain from this... without Airplay they harvest data from people that (stupidly) log in to their streaming services. I'm not sure what either has to gain from Airplay. 🤔

Read the post two above yours... that's why

 

[nottorp]

I don't understand. If a TV has AirPlay it has AirPlay. Why would it need anything special if it's in a hotel?

Or they mean.... there will be an extra fee to enable it in your hotel room?

 

[snow755]

not sure if this is a good thing or bad thing or both lol

 

[svish]

Good. Samsung and others should be following soon

 

[Fromthehiptothehop]

Everything else equal, I’m choosing the place with built in Apple AirPlay.

When everything else is equal, of course you’d choose that way.
Would be more interesting, if you will choose the place with built in airplay if some other things would be worse than in a place without.

 

[FelixDerKater]

The closer it feels to home, the more likely people are to return.

 

[AriaAmaris]

I travel all the time. I barely ever turn the TV in the hotel room anymore. YouTubeTV is better.

 

[RemedyRabbit]

It’s mad just how awful hotel TV systems are. You can stay at a beautiful hotel with otherwise excellent facilities, but the TV is nearly always small and outdated with a horrible interface and limited choice, if it even works properly at all.

I can understand why a big hotel might not be able to offer 4k streaming over their network to 100+ rooms, but having airplay and chromecast should be a no brainier.

 

[MrCrowbar]

Errrr, they already have that in Japan on fairly ancient (thick) LG flatscreens in cheap hotel rooms, maybe it's not the TV itself but the result is the same.

TV displays a WIFI QR code, you connect to it and then you can just airplay to it from your phone and use the internet on your phone as well. It's probably just a little router with airplay and hdmi in every room, but it looked very well integrated on the TV's hotel mode.