Sales of Philips MediaSuite TVs to top 300,000 by year end

Sales of Philips MediaSuite Hotel TVs are set to top 300,000 by the end of this year, after reaching 100,000 just over a year ago in May 2021.

MediaSuite is now the market leader in the DACH, Benelux and Nordic regions, with Chromecast built-in MediaSuite TVs chosen by some of the world’s largest hotel groups.

MediaSuite TVs are also seeing exponential growth in the North American market, after the series became available there last year.

Philips MediaSuite Hotel TVs and B-Line Business TVs for the corporate, food and beverage sectors are the only professional displays to feature Chromecast built in. PPDS, the company behind Philips pro displays, has made a long-term strategic commitment to the technology.

Jeroen Verhaeghe, global business development director for hospitality at PPDS, commented: “Philips MediaSuite TVs have been designed exclusively around the in-room hotel room experience, understanding and providing the solutions required and craved after by both the hotel and its guests. Our goal is to support hoteliers in ensuring all expectations are achieved or surpassed, and Chromecast plays an important role in this being achieved.

“In our recent PPDS Guest Behaviour Survey, we found that 71 per cent of hotel guests turn on the TV in their hotel room. If the features and functionality on that TV don’t mirror or exceed those achieved at home, then the experience is immediately compromised.”

Jan van Hecke, global product manager for professional TV at PPDS, added: “Rather than an add-on service, we literally built Chromecast into our TVs – a first for any professional TV in this space. This provides a unique and seamlessly accessible solution to meet guests’ entertainment needs and is, of course, backed with a level of security that is not easily achievable with external dongles, for added peace of mind.”