In-flight entertainment | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 04/06/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-flight_entertainment


00:01:27 1 History
00:08:27 2 System safety and regulation
00:11:10 3 Cost efficiency
00:13:16 4 Software reliability
00:14:23 5 Varieties of in-flight entertainment
00:14:34 5.1 Moving-map systems
00:17:00 5.2 Audio entertainment
00:18:42 5.3 Video entertainment
00:20:32 5.3.1 Personal televisions
00:22:42 5.3.2 In-flight movies
00:23:43 5.3.3 Closed-captioning
00:25:32 5.4 In-flight games
00:26:27 5.5 Islamic prayers and directions to Mecca
00:27:02 6 In-flight connectivity
00:29:30 6.1 Satellite and internal telephony
00:30:46 6.2 Data communication
00:31:21 6.3 Wi-Fi
00:33:15 6.4 Mobile phone



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In-flight entertainment (IFE) refers to the entertainment available to aircraft passengers during a flight. In 1936, the airship Hindenburg offered passengers a piano, lounge, dining room, smoking room, and bar during the 2 1/2 day flight between Europe and America. After the Second World War, IFE was delivered in the form of food and drink services, along with an occasional projector movie during lengthy flights. In 1985 the first personal audio player was offered to passengers, along with noise cancelling headphones in 1989. During the 1990s, the demand for better IFE was a major factor in the design of aircraft cabins.  Before then, the most a passenger could expect was a movie projected on a screen at the front of a cabin, which could be heard via a headphone socket at his or her seat. Now, in most aircraft, private IFE TV screens are offered.
Design issues for IFE include system safety, cost efficiency, software reliability, hardware maintenance, and user compatibility.
The in-flight entertainment onboard airlines is frequently managed by content service providers.