I'm sorry that I'm not directly answering your question. However, I'd like to make a point. To preface, I'm the CTO for a busy medium sized company and have a good amount of experience not only in technology but in public system administration.

I've been in a few hotel rooms in the past year that have independent computers in each room. These computers have never worked very well.

I suspect that between patron abuse, in-room dust, and a variety of other factors that the support and ownership costs of putting a computer in each room (mac or pc) isn't a very good solution.

What I'd look deeply at is a thin client solution with a custom multicast client to play movies on demand.

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