Talk:In-flight entertainment

David Flexer

David Flexer, the inventor of the in-flight movie, deserves his own Wikipedia page.209.183.32.50 (talk) 01:15, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Important factors

At the beginning of the article, there is a list of important factors that should be taken into account when designing an IFE system. One that is not included, which I think is always considered, is weight. There's not much point having a state-of-the-art IFE system if it's too heavy for the aircraft. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.144.112.160 (talk) 16:59, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Pan Am Installed TV When?

Article state Pan Am was the first to install TV monitors at 1962 in their L-10 Electras? Some how I think that not to be true. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.1.163.86 (talk) 16:50, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

In Flight Wi-Fi

This article doesn't contain any information regarding in-flight wi-fi as it pertains to the airlines. I have compiled information on what each airline is launching in the following link: http://dailymarauder.com/2008/05/09/in-flight-wi-fi-you%e2%80%99re-free-to-surf-the-friendly-skies/ In Flight Wi-Fi I think the chart is a quick and easy way to propose the information. 68.175.58.81 (talk) 10:41, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

I added a Wi-Fi subsection. Perhaps you could add to it. OccamzRazor (talk) 04:40, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Needs re-doing

this article is very poorly written; it needs a total renovation and redo. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.221.81.98 (talk)

I would also recommend the transfer of the Personal Television section as a subsection of the video entertainment section. --58.69.182.65 02:25, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Only airlines in the world without PTVs in economy

I have to disagree with PAL having no orders of PTVs in long-haul economy class flights. It has recently ordered 777-300ERs which feature AVOD in economy. It is even possible that it will refurbish its existing long haul aircraft with AVOD technology in economy too as what this link says:

Howabout Aeroflot? Does it even have PTVs at least in economy or plan to fit them in future orders at all? --58.69.182.65 02:21, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Innovative Systems

I've re-written the section, with a couple of focus points:

• Removing loaded words such as "innovative" and "best-in-class"
• Making sure that features present in traditional IFEs are not stated over and over again (like phones)--focusing of what's innovative about them.
• Reduction of verbosity
• Some incorrect information of Virgin's system
• Cabin lighting can hardly be called part of the entertainment system (unless you're very easily amused)

--Dali-Llama 06:18, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

• • You might want to think twice about not anything related to Malaysia Airlines into this section... the Malaysian Wikipedians are already dead jealous and on the toes of this page by claiming non-identified sources etc! -le petit vagabond 15:21, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Is there a Malaysia vs. Singapore feud I don't know about? LOL. --Dali-Llama 16:12, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
      • Nothing about that. Its just that, why these 3 systems are claimed to be the "next generation"? There are lots others worth to be mentioned. I personally believe, we do not need this section at all. --Zack2007
        • Of course, Malaysia Airline's inflight entertainment system should always be considered as one of the best, be it true or not. ;) -le petit vagabond 18:21, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm okay with reducing the size of the article to just what's innovative about them (that's kind of what I tried to do), but I think it's important to point out how IFEs are evolving.--Dali-Llama 18:25, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

• • Oh please, Lepetitvagabond. There is nothing in Malaysia Airlines flight entertainment worth mentioning in it. I just felt that by just having 3 so-called next-generation IFE sounds a bit biased and sorta have a blanket advertisement for these 3 systems (it should be better for them to be mentioned in separate article, say their own article). Later there will be other newer IFE system other than these, and do we still need to add it is it? Jet Airways have come up with new IFE system. Should we add it? I really think, for the sake of NPOV, they should only be mention briefly in the other section, rather than having a so-called "examples" of next g IFE. --Zack2007 01:30, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

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Start Class Rationale

As per WP:Aviation Assessment criteria, I have listed this article as "Start-Class" for having at least "one subheading which fully treats that subject." I have not assigned it B-Class due to its prose and extensive use of hierarchical structure when not needed. Codharris (talk) 00:01, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

PanAm NEVER had Lockheed L188 Electras...

...so how could they have put TVs in them? Pan American never operated the 'modern' turboprop Electra of the late 1950s and early 1960s. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L-188_Electra)

Yes, Pan Am (as Pan American in the 1930s) had a handful of Lockheed Model 10 Electras, but that plane was a small ten-seater with no first class cabin and was operated exclusively by Pan American's Alaskan Division. All of them were LONG gone by 1962, along with the Alaskan Division. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L-10_Electra)

American Airlines had a TV-based IFE system called Astrovision in the early-to-mid-60s that was jointly developed by Sony and used on the carriers 707-123s and 707-323s exclusively. This had movies replayed on a reel-to-reel videotape player (Sony, of course) feeding black and white Sony TV screens throughout the cabin. Though slightly more reliable than the Inflight Motion Pictures system that fed a loop of film through the whole cabin, the Astrovision gear was more expensive and heavier. Worse for American, being black-and-white only (no Trinitrons then), passengers preferred the colour Inflight Motion Pictures set-up. (http://www.airchive.com/SITE%20PAGES/VIN-CR%20SMITH.html - there's a portion on Astrovision about half-way down the page.)

But a PanAm TV-equipped Electra? Smile and say "no".

Bwob (talk) 09:08, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

The black and white limitation back then would have been more to do with the videotape than the TV sets. I assume they used CV-2000 VTRs or something similar - no colour tape systems that were in any way portable existed at the time. U-matic cassettes in the early '70s would probably have been the first colour format that was practical for airline use, though I don't know if they did use them (they were certainly a lot more expensive than film projectors at the time). --Zilog Jones (talk) 15:14, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

First in-flight sound film

The Martin and Osa Johnson page claims "In late 1934 the Johnsons participated in a promotion for Baboona. Celebrated WWI "Ace of Aces" Eddie Rickenbacker was enlisted to fly an Eastern Air Lines plane round-trip between Newark and Miami. In the process they set a new speed record and Baboona became the first sound movie to be shown during flight." There's no citation. Is this information correct? It seems a little late considering the first in-flight silent movie was either 1921 or 1925 according to this YouTube clip, and sound films had been around a fair few years before 1934. 86.159.192.149 (talk) 15:31, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

SBA Airlines

Whatever happened to SBA Airlines? They had In-flight entertainment, the music in the armrests. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.237.237.57 (talk) 22:17, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Persistent COI from Adonis One

I have reverted yet again the conflict-of-interest vandalism being repeatedly added in by an IP user (73.209.12.10 and 76.90.33.50) apparently at Adonis One company. I see that this is not the first time this has happened, another IP user in Portland, Oregon reverted the latter IP's COI edits to the same sections. If you are the offending editor and are thinking of repeating it again, you are strongly encouraged to read the entirety of WP:COI and kindly reconsider your actions.

Perhaps it is time to permanently semiprotect the article. MXocrossIIB ^{(So, you were saying?)}; 05:27, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

I have reverted more IP link spam pertaining to/from Adonis One and I see there is no opposition so I'm going to semi-protect the page. MXocrossIIB ^{(So, you were saying?)}; 16:21, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

FYI the article HAS NOT been protected. Only an admin can protect an article. To get that to happen you need to file a report at WP:RFPP MarnetteD|Talk 19:51, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Deadlier Than the Male

The article currently claims, "Amerlon Productions, a subsidiary of Inflight, produced at least one film, Deadlier Than the Male, specifically for use on airplanes." However, no source is cited for this. Amerlon Productions is not listed as a production company in the article about the film, nor is it mentioned in the film's credits. Furthermore, the first sentence of the plot description says, "The glamorous assassin Irma Eckman, disguised as an air stewardess, kills the oil tycoon Henry Keller with a booby-trapped cigar aboard his private jet, parachuting away before the plane explodes." That sounds like a film intended to be rejected by every airline in the world; it would be like trying to license the in-flight film rights to Die Hard 2. Not to mention that Deadlier Than the Male got an X rating from the British Board of Film Censors; admittedly, it wouldn't be considered an X-rated film today, but I would have expected airlines to prefer milder content than that. -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:28, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

The Amerlon reference is a 1966 NYT article (first citation for the WP article about the movie) which says, "The film is the first to be made by Amerlon Productions, Inc., a subsidiary of Inflight, the company headed by David Flexer that has been showing films on planes, which has acquired movie rights to the Sapper stories." But you are correct, there is no mention of the film's being shown aboard planes. Verne Equinox (talk) 17:47, 21 April 2026 (UTC)