Samsung Electronics America, a display market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, and PureHD, a number one provider of digital high-definition television solutions, today announced the launch of the primary Samsung North American IPTV and interactive services enabled hotel, the Radisson Blu Mall of America, which celebrated its grand opening on March 15.
Samsung and PureHD outfitted the hotel’s 517 guest rooms with Samsung’s 40” Class 790 Series and 46” Class 590 Series Hospitality LED TVs and Samsung LYNK™ SINC, a strong, secure and value effective content management solution. These technology advancements enable Radisson Blu to raise guests’ in-room entertainment experience, keeping per the vision for its newest property.
Enhanced In-Room Entertainment Experience
In each Radisson Blu Mall of America guest room, interactive hotel content is seamlessly integrated through a completely converged IP infrastructure into nearly 70 channels of crystal clear high-definition programming delivered by PureHD from Verimatrix to the latest Samsung smart HDTV models. This empowers the hotel to take control in their guest room televisions and deliver a branded message with customized information that’s controlled and managed by the hotel staff, instead of a 3rd party company. It also provides hotel staff with a simple and price effective solution for managing and updating interactive content, consisting of room service, local attractions and hotel amenities, and enables them to push instantaneous updates of data and content to guests during their stay.
“Hotel guests today have high expectations in terms of the in-room entertainment experience,” said Jonas Tanenbaum, vice chairman sales and marketing, Hospitality TV at Samsung Electronics America, Inc. “With the 1st US implementation of Samsung LYNK™ SINC we’re furthering our commitment to delivering the industry-leading entertainment technologies that cater to guest needs, in addition providing the solutions that assist in making managing these technologies easier and more economical for our hotelier customers.”
Seamless, Efficient and Secure Content Management
“PureHD is pleased to be a part of this giant leap forward with Samsung at the ability for hoteliers to regulate and manage their interactive television environments,” said Thomas Pullen, president of PureHD. “For this hotel to move live it took an unprecedented collaboration between Samsung, Carlson-Rezidor and PureHD and that i commend the teams in this great success. PureHD serves the primary Radisson Blu hotel in North America, the Chicago Aqua property with over 60 HD channels and we’re pleased to continue to give the Radisson Blu brand with a state-of-the-art high-definition television experience.”
Samsung’s full range of edge-lit and direct-lit hospitality LED TVs combine superior picture quality and enhanced energy efficiency in a swish form factor. Its hospitality TV lineup incorporates a breadth of LED TVs, including ten different models that differ in size from 22 to 55 inches as a way to meet the desires of almost any space, from a regular room to a collection.