The IEEE Spectrum blog offers a wonderful overview on modern day IFE systems.
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The annual World Airline Survey by Skytrax (carried out between August 2007 and June 2008) has annointed Emirates’ ICE system the best airline IFE for the fourth consecutive year. The Emirates system edged out Singapore Airline’s KrisWorld which came in second again. Other strong performances in the survey were again achieved by Cathay Pacific (3rd) and Virgin Atlantic (4th).
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
Annual survey conducted by Skytrax Research crowns Emirates as the airline with the best in-flight entertainment. Survey respondents nominated airlines in the 2007 Best IFE Awards, based upon the quality attributes for the different factors listed below:
- Best Total quality of IFE
- Best selection of movies – (including language choices)
- Best selection of “short / magazine” video programs
- Best selection of Audio programming
- Best selection of Games and other interactive options
- Reliability of AVOD programming
- Ease of usage for AVOD program systems
- Quality of headset / sound quality
2007 Top 5
- Emirates
- Singapore Airlines
- Cathay Pacific
- Korean Air
- Virgin Atlantic
via Skytrax
Apple announces teaming up with Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM & United to deliver seamless integration between iPods and IFE systems. Additionally, Apple announced that they are working with Panasonic Avionics Corporation to bring even more leading airlines in-flight iPod connectivity in the future.
via Apple PR
