Portable media player maker digEcor announced that long time customer Pacific Blue has placed an order to upgrade to the company’s digEplayer XT. The digEplayer XT features an 8-inch TFT screen, integrated credit card reader, 60 gigabyte or larger hard drive, USB 2.0 port, and two independently controlled headphone jacks. The content provided by digEcor which will include: movies, TV, music, music videos, and video games. Pacific Blue will be renting the digEplayer XT’s to passengers exclusively on international flights from Christchurch and Auckland to Australia as well as on all flights to the Pacific Islands.
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A USA Today article speaks to a move by US airlines to give economy passengers greater control and selection of movies, audio, and games.
Airlines worldwide spent $1.4 billion on in-flight entertainment hardware last year, research firm IMDC says. It’s projected to increase to more than $2 billion by 2012. The result: monitors in individual seatbacks, digital transmission for clearer picture, on-demand delivery that lets passengers pause and rewind, hundreds of movie and song titles, games beyond Hangman and Sudoku, seat-to-seat texting and even e-mail.
Most travelers and analysts agree that foreign airlines have been more aggressive about adopting the latest and fanciest features.
via USA Today
Flickr user Crashworks has some excellent pics of Virgin America’s RED IFE system in action. Below are some samples.
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I was recently introduced to SeatGuru.com. Have you ever ended up in a seat with limited ability to recline or so close to a lavatory making it a high traffic area during your flight? Wish you could have chosen an alternative seat? If you have the ability to select your seat prior to your flight SeatGuru.com will be invaluable to you. The SeatGuru database include seatmaps for more than 300 airplanes from more than 45 different airlines. The simple color coded seatmap and specific comments for each seat grouping helps you find a “green” seat. The database for each airline and aircraft also includes a list of in-flight amenities and airline information.
SeatGuru.com also has a noise-canceling headphone review in their Travel Resources section in which six noise-canceling headphones are reviewed.
Virgin America and Revision3, the groundbreaking Internet TV network built for the web generation, are partnering to bring original, cutting-edge web-based television programming to guests on the next generation carrier’s flights. Revision3 programming on Virgin America will make its debut this March and will be available on the airline’s flights to New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Las Vegas, San Diego and Seattle.
Revision3 on the Red™ Inflight Entertainment System will launch with a unique array of broadcast quality web-based shows, including Revision3 favorites like Diggnation, Tekzilla, The Totally Rad Show, Web Drifter, XLR8R TV and The Digg Reel.
