Deterioration in IFE selection?
Sep 4, 2017, 4:50 am
#1
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Deterioration in IFE selection?
Royalties paid on movies cost a lot to airlines.
This is especially true for blockbusters.
In the past year or so I have the distinct impression that CX is spending less on movies. Despite the wide selection, I do not find the recent movies I would like to watch. And when you fly a lot in the same months that is ennoying.
Am I the only one to have this feeling?
This is especially true for blockbusters.
In the past year or so I have the distinct impression that CX is spending less on movies. Despite the wide selection, I do not find the recent movies I would like to watch. And when you fly a lot in the same months that is ennoying.
Am I the only one to have this feeling?
Sep 4, 2017, 5:34 am
#3
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Couldn't agree more. Back from London last night and all I wanted to watch was 3 episodes of a 12 parter I started the week before. Had seen everything else that I wanted to watch (which is unusual). Definitely spending less on TV series (although there's more variety from around the world, perhaps that's cheaper) and fewer and fewer new movies that I've heard of (and I like movies so it's not because I'm a hermit!). An Ipad 2 and downloadable Netflix is the answer I've discovered.
Sep 4, 2017, 6:02 am
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Royalties paid on movies cost a lot to airlines.
This is especially true for blockbusters.
In the past year or so I have the distinct impression that CX is spending less on movies. Despite the wide selection, I do not find the recent movies I would like to watch. And when you fly a lot in the same months that is ennoying.
Am I the only one to have this feeling?
This is especially true for blockbusters.
In the past year or so I have the distinct impression that CX is spending less on movies. Despite the wide selection, I do not find the recent movies I would like to watch. And when you fly a lot in the same months that is ennoying.
Am I the only one to have this feeling?
There is now a new "studio cx" intro reel.
Sep 4, 2017, 6:50 am
#5
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Royalties paid on movies cost a lot to airlines.
This is especially true for blockbusters.
In the past year or so I have the distinct impression that CX is spending less on movies. Despite the wide selection, I do not find the recent movies I would like to watch. And when you fly a lot in the same months that is ennoying.
Am I the only one to have this feeling?
This is especially true for blockbusters.
In the past year or so I have the distinct impression that CX is spending less on movies. Despite the wide selection, I do not find the recent movies I would like to watch. And when you fly a lot in the same months that is ennoying.
Am I the only one to have this feeling?
Sep 4, 2017, 10:47 am
#6
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In terms of the IFE selection, that is disappointing to hear. I don't usually browse through the content much, usually just enjoy the airshow and get work done on my laptop when not sleeping but I guess thats a sign of the times CX feel people bring enough of their own content not to care.
Sep 5, 2017, 9:24 am
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Definitely agree. 4 years ago I was able to watch at least 4 movies from NYC-HKG, but last week I could barely find more than 2. A lot of dated movies and I am not sure why they included a lot of Harry Potter there.
Sep 5, 2017, 10:54 am
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Movies still look strong to me, when over this year the # of pages in 'Cantopop albums' have fallen from 6 to 2...
I was really pi$$ed when they took away 創世紀 as for that period all I did was to bingewatch it and that made 16 hour flights fly by fast
I haven't flown 35G yet but is there a wider variety on the new IFE system?
I was really pi$$ed when they took away 創世紀 as for that period all I did was to bingewatch it and that made 16 hour flights fly by fast
I haven't flown 35G yet but is there a wider variety on the new IFE system?
Sep 5, 2017, 1:09 pm
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Movies still look strong to me, when over this year the # of pages in 'Cantopop albums' have fallen from 6 to 2...
I was really pi$$ed when they took away 創世紀 as for that period all I did was to bingewatch it and that made 16 hour flights fly by fast
I haven't flown 35G yet but is there a wider variety on the new IFE system?
I was really pi$$ed when they took away 創世紀 as for that period all I did was to bingewatch it and that made 16 hour flights fly by fast
I haven't flown 35G yet but is there a wider variety on the new IFE system?
CX music selection is nowhere better...AA on the other hand, has an awful UI on its IFE but way better range of movie selections.