Replies to post #28448 on e.Digital Corporation (fka EDIG)

[moxa1]

Tinroad - The way I interpret this is that there is a problem in need of a solution, and e.Digital just may have it. The company will be servicing the units as well as loading content on a timely basis, and the agreements for content rest between e.Digital and the content providers, not the airlines. If our HDD based players can make the airlines some money it appears to be a viable solution to the problems cited in the article.

[jtdiii]

Tinroad. I hope I'm wrong, but all realistic indications appear that APS is not a real layer in the IFE market.

Is it presumptuous of me to be unconcerned that APS had no presence at all at the biggest IFE convention in the country(in Seattle no less) last September. See www.waea.com There were 160 other exhibitors there. Where was APS?

You read the Alaska Air article as positive. I don't see how you could read it that way, but that is certainly your take.

My take on our IFE efforts is that management has fallen prey to their propensity for selective omission. They've been very reticent about APS itself,not touting anything about it. Now we know why....and the reason ain't NDAs,bubba.

[DABOSS]

Tinroad: "At this point, though, nothing on the market pays for itself," Palmer says...

I think this is the entire point of EDIG's new venture. Retrofitting entire fleets is completely out of the question and renting a DVD has its limitations but is on the right path.

Get TV clips and games, along with music and movies and one device services an entire family/passenger list.

The marketing angle for the game makers and movie industry also would seem to pay dividends as well.

jmho