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Arrived at the Hotel

Luckily, my flight was on time out of IAD and on time landing at ORD. The Hyatt Regency is nice. It is where we held the council meetings at Annual this past summer. It is fairly massive. Hopefully finding things tomorrow will be easy. I have started to see signs, so I am confident I will find things ok.

I am loving my 32 inch flat screen in my room, I must say. However, I have to get on my soapbox here. Hotels are doing well putting in nice displays. But the picture is still bad, just bigger. Will hotels ever start using HD feeds to maximize the utility of the nice equipment they are installing? I am sure a Professional AV person could help them with that. :)

Anyway, I am looking forward to the sessions tomorrow. I just wish there were more of me here so I could go to more sessions.

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December 11, 2007 at 11:00 AM
AlDizzle said…
I agree whole heartedly with the HDTV comment...the picture looks horrible stretched out in standard definition but hopefully soon that'll change with Over the Air standard def going away in 14 months or so. The rooms at the hotel are great though!
December 12, 2007 at 1:26 PM
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