Lots of Apple TVs in a hotel

Hi all.
Is it possible to setup a Hotel scenario with Apple TVs? What would be the limitations and how could it work? How many could be combined, is it even a good idea?
Regards

I suppose it depends on what you want to do.
If you wanted to let guests rent movies, it might be a little difficult. They'd either have to have an itunes account already or create one, which some might not be willing to do. You could of course have your own account and just let guests use that, but if you were going to charge guests for what they use, you might run into difficulties because sometimes it can be a couple of days before the itms notifies you of purchase and it doesn't tell you which device (room) rented it.
If you were thinking of using it for netflix, you might need to have some sort of commercial arrangement with netflix and that might not work with the apple tv. You could I suppose have a netflix account for each unit.
If you were thinking about streaming from an iTunes library, you might come up against the 5 limit that the current Apple tv has, although no-one knows yet whether this limit will apply to the new model.
Sorry scrub the netflix stuff, I see you are in S Africa.
Message was edited by: Winston Churchill

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