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May 16, 2008
iPod docking stations on airplanes
Air New Zealand will equip eighteen of its airliners with in-flight entertainment rigs allowing iPod users to play their video on seatback screens, listen to audio through the aircraft system, and control their device via the plane's interface.
Flight International reports that the Panasonic X Series in-flight entertainment system, which was trialed last October, will be fitted to 13 Airbus A320s and five Boeing 767s operated by the Kiwi carrier "in the near term".
The X Series kit is capable of offering broadband internet connection, VoIP, secure payments and indeed pretty much anything you might expect from a computer/media centre, and of course there is the iPod hookup, - under which, according to Panasonic, "your aircraft becomes an authorised Apple accessory".
Posted by ipodworld at May 16, 2008 03:18 PM