In-flight Entertainment

In-flight Entertainment in-flight entertainment or just IFE, the umbrella term of entertainment through electronic devices that passengers of a commercial aircraft during the flight is available.

While in earlier times, this usually consisted of a projected onto a screen film, nowadays many long-haul aircraft with personnel Television, short PTV equipped. These individual screens are located at the back of the front seat or the wall, but may be present in the armrest also in a version for folding. Many different systems are used, starting with only a few movie channels on DirecTV, in which case the receivable on the floor television programs are broadcast live, to AVOD, Audio Video On Demand, a form of in-flight entertainment, in which the passenger on his own monitor may choose by touch screen between a variety of films and programs usually, the beginning of time, he can freely determine. Also, it is often possible to simple games such as Tetris by means of a wired remote control, often at the same time serves as a phone to play, sometimes with the option of a multiplayer game with the other occupants of the aircraft ( eg Austrian, United Airlines or Emirates ).

The first airline that began PTV in Economy Class, Virgin Atlantic was 1991. PTV are in the higher classes in very many airlines on long-haul standard, even in economy class are PTV now common.

While is offered in very few airlines such as Air Canada in the Embraer 190 or at Qatar Airways Airbus A320 on short and medium-haul PTV, however, often fold-down LCD screens are common to those shown next to the current position on a map, often show films. The audio playback is not output from the cabin speakers, but through headphone jacks on each sitting.

• Air Travel
• Passenger aviation
• Entertainment