New KA tablet entertainment system
Mar 24, 2015, 4:34 am
#1
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Hong Kong
Programs: CX Diamond, BA Gold, *A Silver, Accor Diamond
Posts: 345
New KA tablet entertainment system
Perhaps this is new on KA or perhaps we were given them only because we were in the first row of business with the bulkhead in front of us. I don't travel enough on KA to know. I think the former because I was able to download the StudioKA app for use on the flight a day or so ahead of the flight.
I wasn't overly impressed when using the app. You can start watching the IFE on your device well before taxi etc, but each time you get interrupted by a PA announcement I found that I had to restart the movie or TV show, there was no remembering where you were so you had to watch the StudioKA thing each time and select language etc before you got to select the same TV show again. That I thought was an irritating drawback. In the end I gave up after 3 or 4 PA announcements and watched a DVD on my laptop.
The device they give you is an Ipad and it took two of the crew members to jam it into the holder on the bulkhead because that was designed for the Ipad but the Ipad was in a case which we couldn't remove to make it fit. Make sure then earphone jack is on the bottom left and it does fit into the holder with some persuasion by the crew.
It was a short flight so no movies were shown to be available but if you selected Other Media on the Ipad you found movies.
It's an interesting idea if it's new on KA (and as I say I think it's new only because the StudioKA app came out - to us anyway - a couple of days ahead of the flight), but the implementation could be better I think. The constant resetting of the programme on your own device because of the PA announcements was definitely frustrating!
I wasn't overly impressed when using the app. You can start watching the IFE on your device well before taxi etc, but each time you get interrupted by a PA announcement I found that I had to restart the movie or TV show, there was no remembering where you were so you had to watch the StudioKA thing each time and select language etc before you got to select the same TV show again. That I thought was an irritating drawback. In the end I gave up after 3 or 4 PA announcements and watched a DVD on my laptop.
The device they give you is an Ipad and it took two of the crew members to jam it into the holder on the bulkhead because that was designed for the Ipad but the Ipad was in a case which we couldn't remove to make it fit. Make sure then earphone jack is on the bottom left and it does fit into the holder with some persuasion by the crew.
It was a short flight so no movies were shown to be available but if you selected Other Media on the Ipad you found movies.
It's an interesting idea if it's new on KA (and as I say I think it's new only because the StudioKA app came out - to us anyway - a couple of days ahead of the flight), but the implementation could be better I think. The constant resetting of the programme on your own device because of the PA announcements was definitely frustrating!
Mar 25, 2015, 1:08 am
#4
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 1,421
Lots of carriers have IFE on A320's
Wiring limitation...
What next
No food on A320 due to galley limitation?
Mar 26, 2015, 3:20 pm
#6
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 6,978
By the way, I think the "food service" HKG-TPE-HKG route is a complete disgrace. They just throw you a box of sandwich and a box of oolong tea. What a joke. And everytime I asked for a replacement drink I'm given the standard "wait please" and NEVER return, I had to ask a second time, and once they even had the nerve to tell me they ran out of Coke. Are you kidding me? I know CX treats this route as a gimmick route with cheap fares, but still, I feel like flying a discount airline with this level of disservice.