AVOD System
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AVOD System
Any know how DL pays for their movies on the AVOD? Do they pay per movie or just a set amount for the chosen movies for the month? I was on Emirates last week and there movie/music selection was awesome. Over 3k movies, shows and albums to choose from on the 380. I assume it's a money issue or DL would have more choice. On another note, its very irritating to get on a flight from DXB on August 5 and still have July's Sky magazine in all the seats. That is just lame.
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Any know how DL pays for their movies on the AVOD? Do they pay per movie or just a set amount for the chosen movies for the month? I was on Emirates last week and there movie/music selection was awesome. Over 3k movies, shows and albums to choose from on the 380. I assume it's a money issue or DL would have more choice. On another note, its very irritating to get on a flight from DXB on August 5 and still have July's Sky magazine in all the seats. That is just lame.
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Not really. DL's AVOD always gives me a warning that the content contains mature themes and "viewer discretion" is advised, and asks if I want to continue. Watch Margaret Cho's HBO special next time you're on board and you'll see they don't cut out anything. Except airplane crashes, they still cut those out.
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Not really. DL's AVOD always gives me a warning that the content contains mature themes and "viewer discretion" is advised, and asks if I want to continue. Watch Margaret Cho's HBO special next time you're on board and you'll see they don't cut out anything. Except airplane crashes, they still cut those out.
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I work in the Entertainment industry, partly in the area that deals with the subject at hand and I'm not authorized to speak on such events, but I can tell you for certain series and portions of specials are edited for the general audience, since they are not subscribers.
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Any know how DL pays for their movies on the AVOD? Do they pay per movie or just a set amount for the chosen movies for the month? I was on Emirates last week and there movie/music selection was awesome. Over 3k movies, shows and albums to choose from on the 380. I assume it's a money issue or DL would have more choice. .
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I flew a 777 back from Dubai on Monday and flew 4 different Emirates flights last week. Emirates easily has 3x-4x more selections. They have over 3000 titles on the A380 but somewhat less on their 777 and A330. Delta had about 15 movies to choose from on the 777. I watched about 4 of them so I know.
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LOL! I can guarantee you that DL has more than 15 movies to choose from on the 777. Even the OLD unrefurbished 763ERs with the small 7 inch PTV screen in BE offers around 20-25 film selections...
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EK certainly offers more "World Cinema" and Bollywood movies than DL ever could/would though.
The DL 777 had about 200+ movies a year or two ago (when I last flew on a 777), and I am not sure whether they have upgraded to the expanded catalog of 330+ movies (found on the 744, 763ER, A330). Perhaps the 15-20 you saw were only in the "New Releases" or one of the categories. I am very sure they have not gone back and reduced the number of movie selections from over 200 to 20!
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I'm not quite sure what flight you were on or if you didn't know how to move past the letter B or C in the selections but the 777s on delta have hundreds of movies to chose from.