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iPod Seat-Back Video Coming To Flights

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the world's-biggest-iPod-accessory dept.

cameronk writes, "Apple announced partnership agreements with Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM, and United that will let you display video from your iPod on the screen of the seat in front of you. Plus, the connectors charge iPods throughout the flight. This will be great for inter-continental flights where even my iPod Nano runs out of juice. I wonder how the airlines are going to keep inappropriate video (i.e. porn or even just movies like "Snakes on a Plane" or "Alive") from appearing on the seat-back displays."

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  1. Privacy Filters? by dsginter · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just a hunch.

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  2. What they aren't telling you.. by s31523 · · Score: 2, Informative

    You have to use a "special" FAA approved cable to connect to the video input of the screen as well as the charging unit. The airline will provide this to you for $5 which includes the rental price of the monitor.

  3. Re:laptop by quanticle · · Score: 1, Informative

    Not really. The iPod charger outputs a max. of 5v DC. Most laptop chargers output ~9-12v DC. Also, laptop chargers draw significantly more current than iPod chargers.

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  4. ie vs eg by Myopic · · Score: 5, Informative

    The poster uses "ie" to list inappropriate content for airplanes, but he is mistaken: instead, he wants "eg". "Ie" introduces an exhaustive list, or restates the category completely, whereas "eg" provides examples within the category. So, he gives the category as inappropriate content, and lists three possible types of inappropriate content, so he should use "eg".

    The latin phrase for "eg" is "exempli gratia", or, in English, "gratuitous example", which is to say, an example which helps explain the intent of the sentence.

    The latin phrase for "ie" is "id est", or, in English, literally "that is", which means you are restating the thing to make the intent clear.

    I don't really blame the poster, who might not care about this distinction, a common mistake amongst Americans, but the Slashdot editors sure as hell should care, being that they are paid to provide that service. That's an old complaint, though, and it's fairly clear the editors don't care either.

  5. KLM? Air France? by SillyNickName4me · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to this Dutch news site Air France and KLM said they were not aware of such a deal with them.

  6. If you're going to be a Nazi by slashdotwriter · · Score: 5, Informative

    at least do it right: 1. Learn Latin so you understand the grammatical structure and meaning of the expression "exempli grata". 2. Learn how to spell: "i.e.", "e.g.". Without the abbreviating periods, the sequences of letters "ie", "eg" don't mean anything in English. "Latin" should be capitalized in English.

  7. What about them? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Apple says this will start in "mid 2007". The first A380 is scheduled for delivery in October 2007, assuming they don't have any more delays. (It has slipped several times, and for over a year; it's like Vista...)

    But the first A380 will be for Signapore, which is not one of Apple's 6 launch customers. The first A380 going to an iPod-integration airline will be Emirates, which gets its first A380 in 2008, followed by Air France, in 2009. None of the other 4 Apple partners are A380 customers.

    To compare, *all 6* of Apple's launch customers are 747 customers, and several of them have been for decades.

    So no, he's not forgetting Airbus. This won't be on an A380 for a while.