What would you like to see on the new IFE System?

[Deleted member 29185]

I've been told my glasses mentioned in post 113 above, have been upgraded to the latest model (52" virtual screen rather than 40") and should be here in 4 days! I'll believe it when I see it. I wonder if they can be gate to gate.......who's to say they're not sunglasses because I don't like the glare from the BSI sunrise theme.

 

[lovestotravel]

I hope that Tab's don't break to easily!

Noticed 3 x Digiplayers being dropped off tray tables over the weekend

Why? Because there is not enough room for food/drinks and a portable IFE

 

[greenfish]

I've been told my glasses mentioned in post 113 above, have been upgraded to the latest model (52" virtual screen rather than 40") and should be here in 4 days! I'll believe it when I see it. I wonder if they can be gate to gate.......who's to say they're not sunglasses because I don't like the glare from the BSI sunrise theme.

Wishful thinking on gate to gate - you'd need earphones too I think, the cabin crew will be less than enthusiastic if you have any sign of electronics turned on.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

I hope that Tab's don't break to easily!

Noticed 3 x Digiplayers being dropped off tray tables over the weekend

Why? Because there is not enough room for food/drinks and a portable IFE

That was a forgone conclusion blind Freddie could see, so surely they would have budgeted that into their calculations.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Wishful thinking on gate to gate - you'd need earphones too I think, the cabin crew will be less than enthusiastic if you have any sign of electronics turned on.

Yes, I was indulging some wishful thinking there a little. As Sam said, I don't like going backward from what we had (ie: gate to gate). Personally, I can't see the issue with electronics. I never have trouble hearing the messages even with earphones in and I think the "interference" with navigation equipment sounds like any excuse in a storm style thinking. I know pilots who use their mobile phones whilst flying and they say there's no interference at all even from them, so surely an ipod playing is nothing.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

I've been told my glasses mentioned in post 113 above, have been upgraded to the latest model (52" virtual screen rather than 40") and should be here in 4 days! I'll believe it when I see it.

I received my cinema glasses yesterday (5 days ) and on a very quick look, they seem pretty good. The updated model does not have the external box, it's all in the glasses themselves. I can't yet try them on movies.....because I don't know how. You travellers that seem hell bent in favour of the BYO IFE solution, may I ask where/how you download movies? All our DVDs are copyright protected, out T-Box at home downloads only to T-Box, I'm in no way supportive of bit torrent downloading, I see i-Tunes does it but only to i-Devices.......so how does one get a (for eg) .avi or .wmv movie file, legally???


The drawbacks with the glasses themselves as far as I can see so far are 4:3 rather than 16:9, slightly pixelated viewing (although very watchable @ a resolution of 432 x 240), permanantly attached ear phones (like the freebie economy ones DJ have) which a) are uncomfortable; and b) if damaged will be difficult to repair/replace.

Battery life is suggested as being 2-3 hours but it can have an external supply source connected whilst watching (I'm sure there are commercial back-up battery products available). It connects to a computer via USB 2.0 high speed, has 2GB of onboard memory and takes a 32GB TF (micro SD) card. I'm led to believe it can access iDevices with an adapter but I'm unsure how. When it's plugged into a computer, it loses all it's control capabilty ie. I can't explore the PC hard drives from the glasses but I can upload files to the glasses, so I'm not sure how you'd access iDevice files (unless perhaps there is a iPhone to TF adapter that may let the glasses see the iPhone as simply a card???? Any ideas from the tech-heads? (Like can the iPhone support an external display?)

There's support for music (Mp3, WMA, Flac, APE), video (RM, RMVB, WMV, AVI, MPEG 1,2,3,4, FLV), pictures (Jpeg, BMP, GIF) and Ebook (TXT).

They are comfortable to wear (both with and without prescription glasses on) and watch and the audio is crisp and clear. All in all, so far I am happy and I can see these being an answer to my DJ ife problems and if I can actually connect to the iPhone, it should be great as it will then be able to use the wifi to access DJ streamed content as well.

 

[ash.1111]

LOL, sorry, but I could never wear such things in public! I'd be worried about the looks I'd get... then again, I wouldn't be able to see them for myself.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

LOL, sorry, but I could never wear such things in public! I'd be worried about the looks I'd get... then again, I wouldn't be able to see them for myself.

And here I was thinking you were space cadet material