Patent ID: 7600248

Claim:
A method for providing video to a passenger seat display of an aircraft, the passenger seat display communicably coupled to a seat controller unit located in close proximity to the passenger seat display and a passenger control unit, the method comprising: identifying digital media files stored in a digital media file server on the aircraft; reading the digital media files and program data of the digital media files to identify viewable programs; generating an entry of channel assignment information in a programming database for each identified viewable program; updating the programming database to assign a passenger control unit channel to each of the identified viewable programs; updating the programming database to assign at least one RF channel to each of the passenger control unit channels; receiving an input signal from the passenger control unit at the seat controller unit, the input signal representing a request to play back a selected viewable program of the identified viewable programs; and using the seat controller unit and program channel assignment information of the programming database to: tune the seat controller unit to a proper RF channel for receiving the selected viewable program; and causing an identifier of the passenger control unit channel to be displayed.