shaag@smallcapss.com is the email that I've found Steve Haag to be most responsive to. In my experience, he's been pretty open when asked questions like yours. I'm not positive, but I seem to recall your questions being discussed on this board several weeks ago. You may have to just take a couple hours and read a bunch of back posts here. And if you hear anything from Steve that you feel you can share here, by all means do so! Good luck.
I believe that Prakash addressed this on the TIVU conference call back in March and if I remember correctly he said that the hotels are providing upfront funding for the TV'S.
I know that he did note on the call that Doubletree paid $356K already up front for their installation.
I don't have the time to relisten but the recording is still available by dialing 1 (641) 715-3413, passcode 143798#.