Any way to switch hotel TV to video inputs????

[SpazzyChicken]

Stupid lodgenet. I am in Cleveland for 3 weeks for training, and the tv in my room has a/v inputs. Sweet, I thought, I brought my ps2 to play, this won't be so bad!!!

WRONG! Neither the tv, nor the remote gives you any way to select the a/v in channel. All I get is lodgenet trying to rape me for $7.00/hr to play gamecube games. Lame.

Anyone know if a universal remote will work?? Or any other way to switch it??

 

[jammur21]

Go to best buy and get the RF adaptor.

 

[nakedfrog]

Buy a TV from Wal-mart and return it when you're done (if you're the unethical sort)
Or maybe hit up a local thrift store and get a cheap junk TV that would still be cheaper than what they're asking.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: jammur21
Go to best buy and get the RF adaptor.

Nowadays they've usually got a sleeve on the back connector that requires a non-standard or cut socket to remove.

 

[jammur21]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: jammur21
Go to best buy and get the RF adaptor.

or cut socket to remove.

So?

Pliars work well on the plastic shield sleeve thing too.

 

[SpazzyChicken]

Hmmmmmmm..............guess I'll buy some pliers too. The tv's have the protective plastic shield on the coax. Although I would like to avoid having to rip it off the tv.

I tried putting a remote program on my pda. No go on the tv/video button, looks as if they have it disabled. Damn it.

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: SpazzyChicken
Hmmmmmmm..............guess I'll buy some pliers too. The tv's have the protective plastic shield on the coax. Although I would like to avoid having to rip it off the tv.

I tried putting a remote program on my pda. No go on the tv/video button, looks as if they have it disabled. Damn it.

why not ask the front desk if there's a way to hook up your PS2 to their tv?

 

[RaDragon]

Originally posted by: KLin

Originally posted by: SpazzyChicken
Hmmmmmmm..............guess I'll buy some pliers too. The tv's have the protective plastic shield on the coax. Although I would like to avoid having to rip it off the tv.

I tried putting a remote program on my pda. No go on the tv/video button, looks as if they have it disabled. Damn it.

why not ask the front desk if there's a way to hook up your PS2 to their tv?

^^ What he said. Normally, the easiest is the simplest solution...

 

[olds]

They will have a full remote for the TV somewhere. They use remotes that only have some of the functions so guests won't change settings. Ask at the front desk.

 

[dartworth]

Where are you in Cleveland?

 

[SpazzyChicken]

Originally posted by: KLin

Originally posted by: SpazzyChicken
Hmmmmmmm..............guess I'll buy some pliers too. The tv's have the protective plastic shield on the coax. Although I would like to avoid having to rip it off the tv.

I tried putting a remote program on my pda. No go on the tv/video button, looks as if they have it disabled. Damn it.

why not ask the front desk if there's a way to hook up your PS2 to their tv?

I did ask first, no go. They sent the "engineer" up here and he told me that the tvs have a card in them that disable the av/inputs and that they couldn't enable them. Sounded like bs to me, but perhaps it is true.

When I tried with a universal remote (pda) the tv tries to tune to the av input, but then gets sent right back to the lodgenet screen. POS.

 

[eakers]

the same thing happened to us at a hotel. We had a coax adapter for the xbox so.. we bought a female to male converter at walmart (like a buck) so then we unplugged the cable that went into wall for the cable tv and hooked it up to the xbox and voila!

 

[SpazzyChicken]

Originally posted by: dartworth
Where are you in Cleveland?

Embassy Suites Beachwood.........what's there to do around here???

Originally posted by: eakers
the same thing happened to us at a hotel. We had a coax adapter for the xbox so.. we bought a female to male converter at walmart (like a buck) so then we unplugged the cable that went into wall for the cable tv and hooked it up to the xbox and voila!

Thats a pretty good idea, thanks!

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Originally posted by: eakers
the same thing happened to us at a hotel. We had a coax adapter for the xbox so.. we bought a female to male converter at walmart (like a buck) so then we unplugged the cable that went into wall for the cable tv and hooked it up to the xbox and voila!

Winnar!

 

[mobobuff]

Some hotels run the CATV over the phone line and use an expansion card on the set which removes everything and provides only the RJ-11 jack. So then you're REALLY screwed. Alls YOU need is a coaxial adapter.

 

[Sluggo]

You might have luck hunting around www.ihacked.com, they had several ways to "enhance" motel room TV.

 

[TallBill]

adaptor ftw.. never woulda thought of that.. ever