Hilton Launches Home-Theatre Experience with Sight+Sound Rooms in Chicago and San Francisco

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Following extensive conceptual development, Hilton Hotels has launched home theatre-like Sight+Sound Rooms™ at two hotels, including 25 guest rooms at the Hilton Chicago O’Hare International Airport and 30 guest rooms at the Hilton San Francisco.

“It has been, and continues to be, our responsibility to fill the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality.”

“Travelers desire more digital entertainment options in the hotel guest room than ever before. The Hilton Sight+Sound Rooms are designed to provide a more enriching experience to business travelers and families, enhancing their journey by providing the ultimate in-room entertainment,” said Tom Keltner, CEO – Americas and Global Brands, Hilton Hotels Corporation. “Representing a long-term vision for our hotels, the Sight+Sound Rooms underscore our overall strategy of providing a more personalized experience in-room – giving guests choice and control over their surroundings.”

“Featuring a wide-screen, high definition, television, a digital surround-sound system, and an easy-to-use connectivity panel for music, videos, games and laptops, the Sight+Sound Rooms will enable guests to connect, watch, and experience their favorite entertainment,” said Tim Harvey, chief information officer, Hilton Hotels Corporation.

This cutting-edge, fully enabled high definition system with a stunning selection of high definition movies, TV channels, and interactive menus, features home theatre-like qualities of surround sound from Yamaha, a 42-inch plasma screen, as well as sports packages and Monster Cables for easy connectivity.

Watch+Listen

The Sight+Sound Rooms will enable guests to catch up on compelling content, including recently aired popular primetime TV series and catch-up specials. The rooms also feature all-day sports packages on demand, including football, basketball, baseball, hockey and college sports. Programming from DirecTV will include 14 high-definition channels among 40 total network and cable channels and five or more XM Satellite Radio stations.

Explore

Hilton has paired with highly esteemed entertainment brands to provide state-of-the-art equipment: LG 42” flat-screen plasma televisions, a Yamaha YSP-800 digital sound projector, high-definition TV programming from DirecTV, and a user-friendly electronic programming guide and high definition menu system for easier navigability, from LodgeNet. LodgeNet also was integral to planning and installing the system.

Connect

Guests also can bring their own media content and plug portable devices such as MP3 players, laptops, digital cameras and video recorders into a specially designed easy-to-use connectivity panel, which LodgeNet developed and provided for the project. To support the connection, Monster Cable is providing a cable pack in the event guests leave their cables behind.

“The Sight+Sound Rooms represent an important extension of the strategic entertainment and technological solutions designed for our guests,” said Jeffrey Diskin, senior vice president – brand management, Hilton Hotels. “At Hilton, we know that travel should take you places®, and our newly designed rooms are geared to ease, enlighten, entertain and refresh the mind, body and soul while you’re traveling.”

Guest feedback on the Hilton Sight+Sound rooms will help the company create a compelling offering for future guests of all the Hilton Family of Hotels.

About Hilton

By year-end 2007, Hilton will complete installation of its new Hilton Serenity Collection^® of luxurious in-room amenities in all guest rooms. The Hilton Serenity Bed features the Serta Suite Dreams^® mattress and box springs, Pacific Coast^® down duvet, Super Topper mattress pads, and high-quality linens and pillows. The Hilton Serenity Collection in-room coffee system features world-renowned Lavazza^® coffee from Italy, and an exclusive Cuisinart^® dual-cup, single-brew coffeemaker. The Hilton Serenity Bath Collection offers the exclusive Crabtree & Evelyn La Source^® line of bath amenities. Each guestroom also has the easy-to-set Hilton Family alarm clock with MP3 player connectivity, an executive desk with an ergonomic chair and wireless high speed internet access. The brand is continuing to install flat-screen televisions within all of its North American guest rooms.

With nearly 500 hotels on six continents, Hilton Hotels continues to be an innovative leader in the full-service hospitality segment and the most recognized name in the industry. Hilton celebrates the accomplishment, enlightenment, renewal and celebration that travel enables. This commitment to personal guest achievement infuses all decisions about products, programs and amenities, and is underscored by the belief that travel can and should be transformative. Each unique Hilton Hotel was designed to reflect the sense of place of its location; each team member chosen to reflect the local culture and community. For more information, please visit www.hilton.com.

About LodgeNet

LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation is the leading provider of media and connectivity services designed to meet the unique needs of hospitality, healthcare and other visitor and guest-based businesses. LodgeNet serves more than 1.8 million hotel rooms representing 9,300 hotel properties worldwide in addition to healthcare facilities throughout the United States. LodgeNet's services include on demand movies, games, television programming, music and information, along with subscription sports programming and high-speed Internet access. LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation owns and operates businesses under the industry leading brands: LodgeNet, On Command and StayOnline. LodgeNet is listed on NASDAQ and trades under the symbol LNET. For more information, please visit www.lodgenet.com.

About Monster Cable

Monster Cable is the world's leading manufacturer of connectivity solutions for high performance audio, video, car audio, computer, console and computer gaming, professional audio and sound reinforcement. The Monster Power division is the leading manufacturer of high performance AC power line conditioning and protection products for audio/video systems. www.MonsterCable.com.

About Yamaha

Yamaha Electronics Corporation (YEC), USA, based in Buena Park, California, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha. YEC offers Home Theater components and systems, featuring A/V Receivers, Amplifiers, DVD/CD, Speakers, Mini-Systems, Video Projection, as well as A/V & IT Convergence Products.

About Hilton San Francisco

The Hilton San Francisco is the largest hotel on the West Coast with 1,908 guest rooms and 110,000 sq. ft. of premium flexible function space. Ideally located in the downtown Union Square area close to shopping and cable cars, the Hilton can be considered an urban resort with features such as the 13,000 sq. ft. Spa Fusion & Health Club (www.spafusion.com), and an outdoor heated swimming pool and whirlpool. For more information and reservations, please call 1-800-HILTONS or visit www.hilton.com.

About Hilton Chicago O’Hare International Airport

The award winning Hilton Chicago O’Hare Airport is the only hotel situated on the airport's property. There is no need to take a cab or a shuttle bus since the hotel is connected to the airport terminals by underground pedways. It's unique location makes it an extraordinarily convenient meetings destination. Complete with 858 deluxe guest accommodations and 59 conference, banquet and meeting rooms, the Hilton Chicago O'Hare Airport has the perfect setting for any event-large or small. Additional information on the Hilton Chicago O'Hare Airport can be found at www.ohare.hilton.com.

About Hilton Hotels Corporation

Hilton Hotels Corporation (NYSE:HLT) is the leading global hospitality company, with more than 2,800 hotels and 480,000 rooms in 76 countries and territories, including 100,000 team members worldwide.

The company owns, manages or franchises a hotel portfolio of some of the best known and highly regarded brands, including Hilton^®, Conrad^®, Doubletree^®, Embassy Suites Hotels^®, Hampton Inn^®, Hampton Inn & Suites^®, Hilton Garden Inn^®, Hilton Grand Vacations™, Homewood Suites by Hilton^® and The Waldorf=Astoria Collection^®.

The Hilton Family of Hotels adheres to founder Conrad Hilton’s philosophy that, “It has been, and continues to be, our responsibility to fill the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality.” The company put a name to its unique brand of service that has made it the best known and most highly regarded hotel company: be hospitable®. The philosophy is shared by all brands in the Hilton Family of Hotels, and is the inspiration for its overarching message of kindness and generosity.

Hilton Hotels Corporation’s sponsorship of the U.S. Olympic Team will extend through the 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing, China, and includes the 2008 U.S. Paralympic Team(s) and the 2007 U.S. Pan-Am Team.

For more information about our company, please visit www.hiltonworldwide.com, and to learn more about our be hospitable philosophy, please visit www.behospitable.com.