Patent ID: 7587733

Claim:
An aircraft in-flight entertainment system comprising: at least one entertainment source for providing entertainment related data; a satellite weather information receiver for receiving at least one weather related programming channel from at least one satellite, the at least one weather related programming channel providing information on different geographic areas; a signal distribution network connecting said at least one entertainment source and said satellite weather information receiver; a plurality of seat electronic boxes (SEBs) spaced throughout the aircraft and connected to said signal distribution network, each SEB comprising at least one processor for comparing information on the different geographic areas provided by the at least one weather related programming channel with selected geographic areas, and determining the weather related information corresponding to the selected geographic areas; a plurality of passenger seatback displays coupled to said plurality of SEBs for displaying the entertainment related data and for displaying the weather related information corresponding to the selected geographic areas; and a plurality of passenger control units coupled to said plurality of SEBs, each passenger control unit associated with a respective passenger seatback display for permitting passenger selection of a geographic area from among a plurality of geographic areas including non-destination geographic areas, and each passenger control unit comprising an alpha-numeric keypad for entry of a city name corresponding to the geographic area being selected.