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Old Dec 6, 2019, 9:57 pm
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Originally Posted by aerobod
As mentioned quite a while ago, it is an issue relating to the RIAA and movie house approval for specific certified DRM packages which are all ancient, when playing recent movies on personal devices. It is a bureaucratic issue that Panasonic and other providers are caught in, with varying technology problems on PCs and Macs due to this certification issue. They need to approve the platform, so an iOS app deployed on a Mac would still need to pass through the bureaucracy.
In the meantime, the "How to connect to IFE" card in the seat back should include the wording "THIS WILL NOT WORK ON A MAC LAPTOP"

Saying you have something, and allowing customers to fiddle around trying to get it to work, when it really doesn't work on a Mac is actually worse than not having the system at all.
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