Short answers for owners, operators, brand teams, and signage firms comparing an in-room entertainment or digital-signage last mile.
Hotel IPTV is in-room entertainment delivered over the building LAN instead of a tap on every guest-room coax run. Licensed live TV still originates at the property headend. A property entertainment server publishes the guide, branding, and menus. A media box on HDMI is the last mile in the room.
A managed coax or iTV contract usually bundles the channel path, field techs, and a multi-year fee per endpoint. Lumina leaves live TV on the headend you already pay for. You own the property entertainment server and the media boxes. Channel and creative changes happen on the server the same day.
Yes. Sports, news, and locals stay on the licensed live-TV headend the operator already pays for. Lumina does not sign programmer deals and does not replace that contract. The media box plays the lineup the headend already carries.
A small HDMI endpoint behind the television. It boots a branded hotel home, keeps the remote on the operator menu, and stays awake when the screen is off. Swap the set without recertifying a hospitality TV operating system.
Yes, if the set has HDMI. Guest room, bedside, resident studio, or a public display. The same clone image. You do not need a new hospitality TV model to start a pilot.
Yes. A dedicated display is a room with no folio. Lobbies, elevator banks, menus, and partner walls clone from the same golden image as the in-room box. Idle guest-room TVs can show property ads until someone picks up the remote.
No. In hospitals Lumina is comfort television and operator messaging only — bedside live TV, a simple remote, education the hospital already owns, and waiting-room screens. It is not a medical device, not nurse-call, and not a certified clinical record.
Yes. Resident rooms get large type, a short tile list, meals, activities, and a printed Cast code for family. Dining rooms and lounges show the same calendar. The same media box can sit in a private home for agency check-ins.
A printed room code gates the session. One device at a time. Checkout rotates the code so the next guest cannot join the last stay.
On the hotel product, yes. Charges show on the set. Zero-balance stays can check out from the Your Folio tile. Photographed F&B posts to the room, the ticket hits the kitchen, and the charge hits the folio.
Week 1–2 is a headend survey, property-system mapping, and brand skin. Week 3–4 is a golden room, golden wing, or golden display. After that you clone the floor. Ask for one floor, one wing, or one lobby — not a property rebuild.
The operator keeps the media boxes and the headend. There is no remaining-term clawback on a vendor plant you never leased. Illustrative industry ranges in the decks are not a Lumina quote.
Canada and the United States. Conversations start with owners, operators, brand teams, and the signage or AV firms that already hang the screens.
Use the pilot form. Name the building and the vertical. Lumina replies with the matching deck and a time to talk. Decks are not posted for public download.