{"id":12732,"date":"2015-07-06T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12732"},"modified":"2015-07-06T10:55:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T14:55:47","slug":"the-end-of-in-flight-entertainment-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-end-of-in-flight-entertainment-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"The End Of In-Flight Entertainment Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/070615_1452_TheEndOfInF1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Katia Moskvitch wrote that in-flight tv screens might be coming to a gentle end:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The TV screens that often come embedded in airplanes cost $15,000 a seat or almost $8 million per aircraft.<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re the biggest driver of maintenance costs, after engines and landing gear.<\/li>\n<li>With planes increasingly coming with Wi-Fi there&#8217;s less of a need to keep passengers entertained with movies. While they won&#8217;t be able to stream Netflix in the air, they can do some internet reading and chatting.<\/li>\n<li>Other airlines are handing out devices to passengers. Openskies a French Airline distributes 500 tablets to passengers pre-loaded with videos. This costs $250,000 per plane which is much cheaper than built-in systems.<\/li>\n<li>Another airline, Trasavia, has trialed giving out Occulus Rift virtual reality headsets to each of its passengers.<\/li>\n<li>Aircraft can also come with movies on a central server which are then streamed to passengers&#8217; own personal devices. Since the movies are stored onboard passengers don&#8217;t have to pay absurd charges to access the movies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See how other airlines are cutting costs, the future of in-flight holograms, and much more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20150702-is-the-seat-back-movie-about-to-die-out\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20150702-is-the-seat-back-movie-about-to-die-out\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katia Moskvitch wrote that in-flight tv screens might be coming to a gentle end: The TV screens that often come embedded in airplanes cost $15,000 a seat or almost $8 million per aircraft. They&#8217;re the biggest driver of maintenance costs, after engines and landing gear. With planes increasingly coming with Wi-Fi there&#8217;s less of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/070615_1452_TheEndOfInF1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12732"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12736,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12732\/revisions\/12736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}