Enseo is one of the established names in hotel in-room entertainment, deployed through installed per-room hardware and enterprise contracts. Better Hotel delivers the modern guest experience, personal welcome, streaming, casting, digital compendium and PMS integration, from a small device in the HDMI port of the TVs you already own, at a fraction of the per-room cost.
Talk to us about your roomsEnseo is a full-service, enterprise in-room entertainment provider: interactive TV, streaming and casting delivered on installed hardware, typically through multi-year agreements, with a large footprint in branded hotels. Better Hotel delivers the guest-facing essentials of that experience without the infrastructure project: one HDMI device per TV, provisioned remotely, integrated with your PMS, managed in one dashboard across hundreds or thousands of rooms. There is no headend, no rewiring and no long contract, and the screens can earn revenue through on-screen promotion of your own services.
Traditional hospitality entertainment systems are installations: per-room equipment, property-wide infrastructure, professional install crews walking every floor, and agreements sized to match. That model suits large flagged properties with capital budgets and brand standards to meet.
Better Hotel is a plug-in platform. Each room needs one small Android TV device in the back of the existing television. Provisioning happens remotely, updates ship over the air, and the whole estate is visible in one dashboard. A refresh that would normally be a capital project becomes a delivery of small boxes and an afternoon per floor.
A plug-in guest TV platform on your existing screens:
An enterprise in-room entertainment installation:
| Consideration | Better Hotel No Infrastructure | Enseo |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware model | HDMI device on the TVs you own | Installed per-room equipment |
| Property infrastructure | Your existing network only | Property-level installation |
| Deployment | Plug in, provision remotely | Professional install project |
| Contract shape | No multi-year lock-in | Typically enterprise agreements |
| Welcome screen from the PMS | ✓ Guest name, dates, WiFi, checkout | ✓ PMS-integrated messaging |
| Streaming & casting | ✓ Yes, cleared at checkout | ✓ Yes |
| Digital compendium | ✓ Yes, always current | ✓ Property information channels |
| Revenue from the screen | ✓ Promote your own services and partners | Varies by deployment |
| Fleet management | ✓ One dashboard, OTA updates | ✓ Managed service |
| Cost per room | A fraction of a traditional rollout | Enterprise pricing via sales |
| Best fit | Independents, boutiques, groups, resorts | Large flagged hotels with brand standards |
The expensive part of upgrading in-room entertainment has never been the software; it is the installed infrastructure and the contract wrapped around it. Better Hotel removes both. Your TVs stay on the wall, your network carries the traffic, and each room goes live in minutes. The per-room cost lands at a small fraction of a traditional hospitality TV rollout, and the home screen promotes your own restaurant, spa and late checkout, so the screens work for revenue rather than sitting as a cost line.
To be even-handed: Enseo is a proven enterprise vendor with a long track record in major hotel brands, a managed-service model, and a product family that goes beyond entertainment. If you operate a large flagged property whose brand standards specify an approved in-room entertainment vendor, or you want a fully managed installation with an on-site service relationship, Enseo belongs on your shortlist. Better Hotel competes for every property that wants the modern guest experience without the infrastructure cost, which in practice is most independents, boutique groups and resorts.
If you are quoted a six-figure refresh for a system your guests will mostly use to open Netflix, it is worth pricing the plug-in model first. Better Hotel delivers the welcome screen, compendium, casting and PMS integration guests actually notice, on the TVs you already own, with a per-room cost that changes the maths entirely. If your brand mandates a specific installed vendor, run us in the properties where you have the freedom to choose.
Tell us your room count and current system, and we’ll come back with a rollout plan and a per-room cost that will look nothing like the incumbent quotes.
Talk to us about your rooms Explore Better HotelYes, for the guest-facing experience: personal welcome screens, streaming and casting, digital compendium, PMS integration and fleet management. Better Hotel delivers these from a small device on your existing TVs rather than an installed enterprise system, at a fraction of the per-room cost.
No. Better Hotel runs from the HDMI port of the TVs you already have, over your existing network. There is no headend, no coax work and no requirement for hospitality-mode televisions.
Yes. The platform was built for fleets: one dashboard covers every room across every property, with over-the-air updates, per-room configuration, live device health and automatic guest privacy clearing at checkout, whether that is 50 rooms or 5,000.
Because there is no installed infrastructure and no professional install, the per-room cost is a small fraction of a traditional hospitality TV rollout. Tell us your room count and we will price it for your property; there is no obligation and no multi-year lock-in.
Enseo is a strong enterprise choice for large flagged hotels; Better Hotel delivers the modern in-room experience everyone else actually needs, without the infrastructure project. Also compare Better Hotel vs SONIFI and BetterSTR TV vs LG Pro:Centric Stay, or see the full Better Hotel page.