JetBlue TrueBlue - When do Movies Start?

My first trip on JetBlue is coming up.

Do movies all start at the same time, or is it an 'on-demand' type system that starts the movie when you swipe your credit card?

It is not an on-demand system.

The movie channels start their programming as soon as the wheels are retracted. They run some short programs for the first few minutes of the flight before the movies start playing. The movies will run on all TVs for the first 30 minutes as a free preview. After the 30minutes, if you haven't swiped your CC the TVs will block out those channels. On longer flights the channels become available again as soon as the first round of movies are complete as they do run a second time on those transcon flights.

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The movie channels start their programming as soon as the wheels are retracted. They run some short programs for the first few minutes of the flight before the movies start playing. The movies will run on all TVs for the first 30 minutes as a free preview. After the 30minutes, if you haven't swiped your CC the TVs will block out those channels. On longer flights the channels become available again as soon as the first round of movies are complete as they do run a second time on those transcon flights.

Has JetBlue ever considered going to an on-demand style programming for the inflight movies?

Has JetBlue ever considered going to an on-demand style programming for the inflight movies?

That would require a rather significant re-engineering of the LiveTV product. Right now the movies are effectively just broadcast to one of the channels on the TV system. Switching to on-demand would require a mechanism for storing the movies that allowed multiple asynchronous playback streams as well as 2-way controls at the seat to be able to handle the start/stop functionality. Even LiveTV3 (the one CO has) doesn't have these features. If they come at all they'll be a ways out, I think.

My first trip on JetBlue is coming up.

Do movies all start at the same time, or is it an 'on-demand' type system that starts the movie when you swipe your credit card?

I don't want to be negative but you MUST bring some sort of back up entertainment (book, magazines, IPOD, etc). I have had a few flights lately with TV issues. My last two flights required complete entertainment system restores (the button in the ceiling type restores). Once it worked, once it did not. Even when it worked, it was thirty minutes into the flight before it worked.

Has JetBlue ever considered going to an on-demand style programming for the inflight movies?

I don't think so. We would have to retrofit the entire fleet and operate off of a different system. $$