Travel Entertainment – No More Hungarian South Park

Tech guru Dan Weitman (Twitter: @newmediazine) follows all things new media at www.newmediazine.com. He recently posted an item on his news feed about the MediaHub HD, an interesting contraption that allows hotel guests to play their portable devices through the hotel room’s TV.

Although I don’t generally spend much time hanging out in a hotel room when I travel to a distant land, I have spent my fair share of time watching the repeating loop of information on CNN International, typically the only English-language station on the dial. In a decade of trips to four continents, I’ve watched South Park in Hungarian, Dawson’s Creek in French and Air Force One in German. I’ve seen countless soccer matches and scratched my head watching cricket.

While I think it’s a fun part of the whole cultural experience to take in some local television, even cool Japanese TV can get a bit old. Wouldn’t it be nice to just hook that iPhone or iPod right to the in-room TV and watch something you downloaded from home? Here’s hoping all hotel rooms worldwide adopt this technology.

Read about the MediaHub HD here.