Flew PER-SIN on A333 this week.

The CSM in his post seatbelt signs off speil agave some advice regarding AVOD. To summarise:

•It may take up to 10 seconds for a response after hitting a control button, please wait for the response.
•repeated hitting of control keys without waiting for a response may result in your personal AVOD freezing.
•If it does freeze, they can reboot your IFE computer. This can take 15 minutes.
•If the are two many reboots, the service for the entire aircraft will have to be rebooted.

Anyway we had a AVOD trouble free flight.

Yep i had a problem free AVOD experience aswell. Nobody on my flight got reset

I've not heard these instructions on any of my flights, but if it does help out then that is great.

Mind you it does sound like a design fault in the system...

does that make it AVO(D+10s) ??

Yay inbuilt buffer overflow / Denial of Service condition in every AVOiD system.

Who designs this technology?


-- apologies to those not in IT who don't understand DOS's or BOF's.

Hmm... But that would evaluate out as AVOD+AVO10s

Dave

RS AVOD -> AVO 4 SLF

ie: non functional in-flight on demand video system leads to apprehended violence order for the passenger...

For christ's sake!!! I often build and maintain video production systems. It's not rocket science to build a video streaming system for a couple of hundred users - just requires some grunt...serious grunt, When factored into the cost of an aircraft and the cost of tickets on said aircraft it shouldn't be that hard to do. The problem as I see it is that "it's all built to a price" and you get what you pay for - the airline and the person who buys a tkt on said airline.
But "serious grunt" is not unafordable these days. If Rockwell or whomever can't get that together it means that the business paying for it is not prepared to pay for a system that is actually going to work. Another symptom of the noughties customer service mantra "We're not happy,till you're not happy"

Just MHO....

Very well said. Working in IT and having a lot of experience with distributed computing, I couldn't agree more. Grunt comes cheap these days, and considering the QF system is based on Windows (I've had the Internet Explorer error page come up before) It's not like it's a custom solution.

Maybe someone should setup opposition to rockwell etc. Sell a superior product at a lower cost, as from what I hear the AVOD solutions out there now are not at all cheap.

Feel like starting a partnership Dazer?

Drew

I sat in a Skybed MEL-PER in October last year; the AVOD for my seat was not working when I boarded & needed a reboot; The screen indicated the system was booting up Windows CE!

Maybe I was asleep over Xmas and missed the advertising, but last weekend I flew to the US and found Qantas have upgraded the software on the AVOD! There's now video on demand, CDs on demand, more games etc. There are about 20 premiere movies, about the same number 'encore' movies (think "Shawshank Redemption"), and about the same number again for alternative, Australian etc combined.

It was just fantastic to watch what I wanted, when I wanted. If I didn't like a movie, I just started another one instead of waiting 2.5 hours. When I woke up I could switch on the tele and start watching something.

There was a note in the magazine that during January this wouldn't be available to Economy passengers, which implies it will be available in the back of the bus soon.

Bravo Qantas!