Pro:Idiom is widely used in both hotel and hospital environments. Most TV sets sold to the hospitality industry now have Pro:Idiom because it eliminates the set-top and all of the headaches that go along with it. It is installed on about 1.5 million out of the 5.5 million total screens in the U.S. hospitality industry.

In a hotel, or other commercial installation, a cable or satellite signal will be decoded by its standard method and then transcrypted with the Pro:Idiom encryption with specialized equipment from Technicolor, Blondertounge, or others that make this equipment. The HD video signal sent to the hotel rooms are encrypted and must be decrypted by a Pro:Idiom TV or Pro:Idiom set-top-box.

The Pro:Idiom set-top-box can allow standard TVs to use Pro:Idiom signals.

The Pro:Idiom TVs typically cost much more than standard TVs ($150 - $300 more) because of this ability, and are usually only needed in commercial installations.

Pro:Idiom will not help in a house to decode cable channels or satellite signals. It is only used for commercial facilities like hotels, stadiums, restaurants, etc.

Pro:Idiom can also be used in IPTV encryption, but Pro:Idiom TVs do not support the IPTV. For these, an set-top-box is used for Pro:Idiom IPTV.

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