Name of 1990s entertainment system
Jan 10, 2020, 1:52 pm
#31
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Jan 10, 2020, 4:43 pm
#34
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I was on a TATL AA 757 last year from PHL to GLA, that had the overhead screens. It was very retro. But as AA say “great is what they are going for” if great is mediocre 2002, they are spot on.
Jan 10, 2020, 6:18 pm
#35
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Just boarded a flight to Vegas. I know it’s an old 747 but the entertainment system is only offering video channels, 25 of them to be precise, including foreign films and subtitled films all on a loop....... you can’t start from the beginning and there is no guide to know what you’re watching.
Is this part of the nostalgic feel BA are bringing back?
Is this part of the nostalgic feel BA are bringing back?
Jan 10, 2020, 9:43 pm
#36
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On my first Mid-J 747 (about 4 years ago now) my IFE in F worked just fine if I used the remote, though the touchscreen was inoperable. Unfortunately some screens in J and Y were inoperable even via the remote, so the crew did a few full resets which didn’t fix the issue, so they switched the entire aircraft IFE back to the fixed loop 25 channel offering for the remainder of the flight.
Jan 10, 2020, 10:18 pm
#37
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How many of you remember when there used to be a film shown from a projector stuffed in the cabin ceiling? TWA ( scads ahead of BA in the seventies) used to have an "Adult" cabin on the 747 where they didn't put children and they showed more grown up entertainment. We used to hand out those ghastly stethescope type headsets.
What we called that wretched system back in the nineties is not repeatable here!
What we called that wretched system back in the nineties is not repeatable here!
Jan 11, 2020, 12:19 am
#38
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I think there were about 20 options listed on a little slip left on the seat in F.
Jan 11, 2020, 2:23 am
#39
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Great is what we used to be, more like. Apart from the side of the aircraft, it’s cheap and nasty US Air to its heart.
Jan 11, 2020, 4:19 am
#40
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I used to rush to complete the form to get the tape i wanted to avoid someone else getting it and then promptly falling asleep!
Jan 11, 2020, 5:15 am
#41
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OT slightly but I remember Britannia Airways being quite ahead of the curve with charter flights even having big heavy cathode ray tv monitors hanging from the ceiling on 737-200's! One wonders the safety aspect of those if there had been an accident. Their 767's had the air tube headphones but was ground breaking in 80's for charter.
Jan 11, 2020, 8:25 am
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I know ! Had one a couple of years back 767 to ORD - equipment change was originally a 772 (old style so personal looped, marginally better).
I remember the first time I set foot on a BA 747 in 1978 - drop down projector screens and stethoscopes, I'm definitely not nostalgic for them !
I remember the first time I set foot on a BA 747 in 1978 - drop down projector screens and stethoscopes, I'm definitely not nostalgic for them !
ML
Jan 11, 2020, 7:24 pm
#43
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Nobody has mentioned the appalling GMIS setup with microscreens in F until BA gave up and handed out iPads instead. I rather liked the BA Personal tape player setup in F which at the time seemed pretty space age!
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Jan 12, 2020, 12:35 am
#44
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They were using Omnia when I first started flying in business cabins
Used to love the warm up video before each film ; my memory was that it was a bit more magical than the higlife ine which i fast forward through
Used to love the warm up video before each film ; my memory was that it was a bit more magical than the higlife ine which i fast forward through
Jan 12, 2020, 4:49 am
#45
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I’m having a cup of tea, reading posts on here and Dvorak Serenade for strings is on the radio. That makes me think of BA-is it the music the used to play on landing?