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Old Dec 3, 2005 | 12:11 pm
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Originally Posted by RTWFF
I stay a lot in Marriott hotels; they all seem to take a very limited sub-set of DirectTV to play on the room TV. If I'm a DirectTV subscriber at home is there any gadget I can get that will plug into the coax in my hotel room to give me a wider selection (I'm talking legit here, of course)?
Not directly via the TV, but if you're using broadband you can try using a Slingbox to watch your home channels on your laptop. No personal experience, but sounds neat.
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