SONIFI Solutions, Inc. ("SONIFI") is an interactive content and connectivity solutions provider. The company serves approximately 1.4 million hotel rooms worldwide in addition to healthcare facilities throughout the United States with core services that include interactive television, broadband, connectivity, and advertising media solutions along with nationwide technical and professional support services.
The company's corporate headquarters are in Los Angeles, California and the primary operations center is in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The company also maintains offices in Silicon Valley as well as offices in Canada and Mexico and a network of field service facilities serving the company's customers throughout the United States and Canada. SONIFI's primary customer base is in the continental United States, and they also deliver services in Canada, Mexico and 15 other countries through relationships with local licensees. SONIFI has had a long-standing partnership with Nintendo, and has brought Nintendo console titles to hotel rooms since the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
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History
SONIFI Solutions was founded in 1980 as Satellite Movie Company. The company was renamed LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation in 1991 and became a publicly traded corporation in 1993. LodgeNet purchased The Hotel Networks, On Command, and Stay Online corporations in 2006 and 2007, and changed its name to LodgeNet Interactive Corporation in 2008.
In late 1993, LodgeNet launched its on-demand hospitality service, including worldwide delivery of Super NES games to hotel guests via its proprietary building-wide networks. LodgeNet eventually reported the system being installed in 200,000 hotel guest rooms by April 1996, and 530,000 guest rooms by mid-1999. By April 1996, LodgeNet reported that its partnership with Nintendo to deliver Super NES games had yielded 200,000 worldwide hotel guest room installations. On June 16, 1998, Nintendo and LodgeNet entered a 10-year licensing agreement for an "aggressive" upgrade to add Nintendo 64 support to their existing 500,000 Super NES equipped guest room installations. LodgeNet says that within the system's previous five years to date, the system had "caused Nintendo to become the most successful new product rollout in the history of the hotel pay-per-view industry". LodgeNet reported that within the middle of 1998 alone, 35 million hotel guests encountered the Nintendo name as an integral amenity, and it reported sales of more than 54 million minutes of Nintendo-based gameplay.
On June 10, 1999, LodgeNet and Nintendo began expanding and upgrading their existing Super NES buildout to include Nintendo 64 support. In mid-1999, LodgeNet reported that its 530,000 hotel room installations were increasing at a rate of 11,000 rooms per month. In September 2000, Nintendo and LodgeNet began delivering newly released Nintendo 64 games to hotel rooms at more than 1,000 hotel sites, concurrently with the games' retail releases, demonstrating "the capacity to update [LodgeNet's] interactive digital systems with fresh content virtually overnight".
On December 31, 2012 LodgeNet announced its intention to file for a prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy as part of a recapitalization that would give control of the company to Colony Capital, a global investment firm with $38 billion in assets under management and a broad range of hospitality and media industry investments. The commencement of these proceedings was announced on January 28, 2013. During this period the company also announced that Colony had signed a memorandum of understanding with DIRECTV under which LodgeNet and DIRECTV would operate as strategic partners within the hospitality and healthcare markets. The agreement extended the parties' current free-to-guest programming agreement to include DIRECTV branding, programming and content, advertising and other operational support.
On March 28, 2013 Colony announced that it had completed the acquisition, concurrent with an approximately $70 million recapitalization of the company and a new $358 million long term credit facility. The investor syndicate led by Colony was issued new common stock representing 100% ownership of the company. This completed the company's emergence from Chapter 11. In the same announcement, hospitality industry veteran Mike Ribero was named the company's new CEO. Tom Storey is the President, Hospitality and Ed Kaufman is General Counsel, and John Chang is the Chief Financial Officer completing the current executive management team.
The company officially became SONIFI Solutions on June 25, 2013 with an announcement at the HITEC trade show.
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Games
Games are offered for multiple Nintendo platforms: Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, and Nintendo GameCube with support for the Nintendo Entertainment System planned.
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
There were 48 Super Nintendo Entertainment System titles available to play on LodgeNet hotel televisions and on airlines equipped with Nintendo Gateway System, which LodgeNet used for their hotel service. Some titles were not playable on airlines.
- Blackthorne
- Boogerman (Not available on airlines)
- Boxing Legends of the Ring
- The Brainies
- Clay Fighter 2: Judgement Clay (Not available on airlines)
- Clay Fighter: Tournament Edition (Not available on airlines)
- Claymates
- Donkey Kong Country
- Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (Not available on airlines)
- Dr. Mario (standalone, exclusive to the service)
- Tetris (standalone, exclusive to the service)
- Final Fight
- F-Zero
- Hagane
- HAL's Hole in One Golf
- Hangman (exclusive to the service)
- Killer Instinct (Not available on airlines)
- Kirby's Dream Course
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- Lost Vikings II
- The Lost Vikings
- Mega Man X
- Noughts & Crosses (exclusive to the service)
- Panel de Pon
- Postcard Puzzle (exclusive to the service)
- Prehistorik Man
- Pro Mah Jong Kiwame
- Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye
- Street Fighter II
- Street Fighter II Turbo (Not available on airlines)
- Super Adventure Island
- Super Bonk
- Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts
- Super Mario All-Stars
- Super Mario All-Stars & Super Mario World (unknown availability)
- Super Mario World
- Super Metroid (Not available on airlines)
- Super Play Action Football
- Super Punch-Out!!
- Super Soccer
- Super Solitaire
- Super Street Fighter II (Not available on airlines)
- Super Tennis
- T&E True Golf Classics: Pebble Beach (listed in a Nintendo Power Article about the Gateway Service, unknown availability)
- Tetris Attack
- Tetris & Dr. Mario
- Vegas Stakes
- Wario's Woods
Nintendo 64
There were 38 Nintendo 64 titles available to play on LodgeNet hotel televisions.
- Mario Tennis
- Excitebike 64
- Mario Kart 64
- Paper Mario
- Super Smash Bros.
- Hydro Thunder
- Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits
- Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA
- 1080° Snowboarding
- Mario Golf
- Namco Museum 64
- Dr. Mario 64
- Super Mario 64
- Ready 2 Rumble Boxing
- Mario Party 3
- Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
- Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
- Mortal Kombat 4
- Wave Race 64
- Pokémon Snap
- Extreme-G
- Iggy's Reckin' Balls
- Forsaken 64
- San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing
- Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
- Milo's Astro Lanes
- Virtual Pool 64
- Yoshi's Story
- Donkey Kong 64
- Star Fox 64
- The New Tetris
- Rampage 2: Universal Tour
- F-Zero X
- Pilotwings 64
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Gauntlet Legends
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
- Virtual Chess 64
Nintendo GameCube
There were 43 Nintendo GameCube titles available to play on LodgeNet hotel televisions.
- 1080° Avalanche
- Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
- TMNT
- Super Mario Strikers
- Mario Power Tennis
- Mario Party 7
- Backyard Baseball 2007
- Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
- Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles
- Battalion Wars
- Super Mario Sunshine
- Tomb Raider: Legend
- Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour
- Kirby Air Ride
- Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness
- The Urbz: Sims in the City
- Pikmin
- Pikmin 2
- Animal Crossing
- Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
- Pokémon Colosseum
- Mario Party 6
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Master Quest
- Mario Party 5
- Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
- Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
- Wave Race: Blue Storm
- Mario Party 4
- Luigi's Mansion
- The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
- Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
- Metroid Prime
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
- Pokémon Channel
- Wario World
- Custom Robo
- WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$!
- Chibi-Robo! Plug Into Adventure!
- The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition (includes The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, a 20-minute playable demo of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, a retrospective of The Legend of Zelda series, and a special movie of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Some content may or may not be on this version.)
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
- Star Fox: Assault
- Geist
See also
- Nintendo 64 controller#LodgeNet variant
- Interactive television
- Smart TV
References
External links
- Official website
Source of article : Wikipedia
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