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Barbara, The in-hotel video that I saw all of was at the Imperial Palace. It was your basic segmented production, with each area of the hotel (cheap rooms, nice rooms, suites, resturaunts, bars, casino, shops, etc) having it's own little section. It wasn't too bad, but overused pans, cutting between them. One talking head and two customer type talents were shown, with the talking head doing a description of each area, either on-camera, or off when the talents were 'enjoying' the facilities. All 3 were female, for what that's worth. Most of the shots were pretty wide, to make everything look a little bigger, I suppose. Very little graphics and titling were present, and the vast majority of the transitions were lap dissolves. Most should've been cuts, IMHO. It played in several locations, and on one of the in-room channels as well. Not too bad, overall. In other places (like monitors out front, in the lobby, and I assume on the room cable) of a lot of places had some really horrendous stuff playing. Big arrows and such at every turn. One of the funky fonts in 2.0 was always on, usually just scrolled or cut in and out. Most of the stuff looked like it was shot on 3/4" or maybe Hi8, and was down 2. Of the 10 or so I noticed, at least 6 were Toaster, and the others done on other Switchers/CG's. I guess bad taste isn't a Toaster thing, as the quality of what I saw was pretty well evenly mixed. If you need any more info, let me know. … Nate.