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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. Censorship? by Jerrry · · Score: 0, Redundant
    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."

    Why would movies like Snakes on a Plane be inappropriate for viewing on an airplane? Porn I can understand, but mass-market movies?

  2. laptop by hey · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Can you use the power to charge a laptop!

  3. Inappropriate MY ASS... by posterlogo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...I mean, COME ON, what's the frigging difference between inappropriate video/images and some guy flipping through his Playboy magazine? Flying in an airplane has always been about unwritten rules of conduct, in addition to the encylopediae of written rules.

  4. I would expect... by DragonWriter · · Score: 0, Redundant
    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.


    Probably, the same way they keep "inappropriate content" in other media (say, porn in dead-tree form) from "appearing" in the passenger compartment.