It shares revenue from the room charge. TV Web surfing Some hotels are offering dual systems, a plug-in on a desk for laptops and an Internet service through the television. After choosing to surf the Internet, guests can point and click with their TV remote like a computer mouse, or use a wireless infrared keyboard. Stocks, news and sports would be a click away. It would work the same as a personal computer, but you can't download files because there's no hard drive for memory.
Hotels can also offer links to local restaurants and attractions.
Since the TV version is likely to be used by more leisure travelers, hotels also want to have high-speed lines for laptop hookup in the same room. Even in vacation markets, high-speed Internet access is being viewed as an essential in an age when nobody ever really stops working.