Originally Posted by
FlyingEgghead
No doubt, most here remember the dropdown screens since AA had them on some planes until
just a few years ago. They were in Y as well as F. When you say "in the aisle", I think you mean on both sides of the aisle under the overhead bins, centered over the 2 seats (F) or 3 seats (Y).
I think OP is talking about the onboard screen a generation before that. Before drop down small flat screen on under the overhead bins, 738 and 752 had cathode tube TV like (do you remember those?) screen mounted on the celling in the aisle. The celling at the front area was low so that screen in the front of the first row of first class was drop down mounted in the celling. FAs had to manually pull down the TV for safety demonstration and in flight Entertainement. I remember that those screens had to be stowed during takeoff and landing, when going to the lav during the flight, I had to clear my head a little to avoid my head slamming into the screen.