Hope Their insightfull enough to incorporate MAIV eye wear type viewing... with the ear-buds.
The means to accomplish an IFE system are vast n should be easly doable when dealing with HDs, kiosks, wireless, broadband and our DRM ability.
However, the content providers will choose
Since PR mentioned loading prior to boarding implies kiosks or preordered/preinstalled - if USB.2 or wireless can't load a flick quick enough I see lockable slots for SD,MS, or even DP - loaded n handed to consumer. Howabout genra players carying same 10 movies for a sellect amount of time - you choose 'Action'.
A wireless device would lend to a closed loop system IMO... PC/kiosks/WLAN to device MOS abilities executing MPEG4 and/or DivX.
Whatever -
This should be Interesting.
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