Boeing Eyes In-Flight Live TV on Your Laptop

Posted by michael on Sunday December 19, 2004 @05:01PM from the nothing-but-airplane-movies dept.

cobravenum2 writes "Boeing is planning to add live television to its Connexion by Boeing service during 2005, The television programs will be delivered across the Connexion network, which uses satellites to provide high-speed data connections between aircraft in-flight and ground stations linked to the Internet. The service entered commercial use earlier this year and provides a 5 megabits per second shared downstream and 1 mbps shared upstream connection to suitably equipped aircraft. You'll be able to view up to four channels of live TV over your laptop."

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Free laptop? by quaker5567 · 2004-12-19 17:07 · Score: 1, Redundant

Quote: "You'll be able to view up to four channels of live TV over your laptop." Bearing in mind that most airlines won't even give you headphones for free, how are the people without laptops going to view this?