Does anyone here remember the Old drop down Screen on B738 first class
Jun 16, 2024 | 6:27 pm
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It appears to be a training mock up from this company: https://www.newton-design.com/lm-cabin-service
Jun 17, 2024 | 9:34 am
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That is old for 2009. I flew AA 767-300 South America to New York in 2002 in J and was given a DVD player with a binder full of DVDs to choose from.
Jun 17, 2024 | 9:42 am
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Back in the woolly-mammoth days, you got the Sony Mini Tape player and an assortment of tapes was in the J galley. That DVD player was a huge upgrade!
Jun 17, 2024 | 5:42 pm
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Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Jun 17, 2024 | 7:02 pm
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The FA's would be frantic at the end of the flight trying to retrieve all the digi-players so that the inventory would match the original inventory.
Jun 17, 2024 | 9:43 pm
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Good eye. It didn't sit right for me as well - AA had the CRTs in the aisle with the initial delivery of the 738s, which were then replaced with the small LCD dropdowns in the overhead. The 752s went from CRT to LCD overheads in the aisle. I do not recall any LCD screens in the aisle on 737s.
It appears to be a training mock up from this company: https://www.newton-design.com/lm-cabin-service
It appears to be a training mock up from this company: https://www.newton-design.com/lm-cabin-service
Jun 18, 2024 | 12:00 am
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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.
Jun 21, 2024 | 8:10 am
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The first generation 738s had the drop down screens throughout the a/c and on longer flights (I think over 3 hours) a movie was shown. Back in 2009 I remember leaving F and going back to an almost empty Y on a LGA/DFW flight to stretch out and watch a movie.
Jun 26, 2024 | 8:29 am
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Oh my yes, early 2000's when the planes were new. I thought that was amazing verses the old CRT, bump your head in the aisle screens on the 757's . I watched Hairspray from MIA to MSP. I always thought they should have kept them even for just the safety video but AA took a different turn when it came to entertainment (which I don't hate BTW, those DL screens and huge under seat boxes are the worst and usually don't work to begin with). Anywho, good memories of the pre-merger AA.
Jun 27, 2024 | 9:20 am
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Jun 27, 2024 | 9:27 am
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Same
Jun 27, 2024 | 9:14 pm
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Oh my yes, early 2000's when the planes were new. I thought that was amazing verses the old CRT, bump your head in the aisle screens on the 757's . I watched Hairspray from MIA to MSP. I always thought they should have kept them even for just the safety video but AA took a different turn when it came to entertainment (which I don't hate BTW, those DL screens and huge under seat boxes are the worst and usually don't work to begin with). Anywho, good memories of the pre-merger AA.