Timeline for Why are in-flight entertainment systems not very evolved?
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| Mar 18, 2016 at 15:13 | comment | added | emory | @alephzero 10 years? If you decide to go this route, then you are going to need to replace everything long before 10 years. | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 14:33 | comment | added | reirab | @alephzero The cost concern is not such a big deal with new planes, but most planes flying for airlines aren't new. The cost of taking a plane out of service for a retrofit (and getting said retrofit certified by the relevant authorities, where necessary) is much larger than the cost of a SOM and a touchscreen. | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 13:54 | comment | added | Jon Story | @DeanMacGregor again I'm not saying it's impossible, just that it's a whole bunch of extra traffic (onboard wifi is limited to the fairly slow satellite link). but there are still some important differences and it can't just necessarily be retrofitted in... it's certainly more possible for newly designed/built planes, if there was a demand for it | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 13:10 | comment | added | Dean MacGregor | You point 5 is a little off. Flights, at least in the US, often times provide WiFi for in flight internet access so it's unlikely having Wifi on is a concern. I think it all boils down to a combination of 1 and 3. The reason I dismiss #2 is that planes already have Wifi access points that 1337 haxors can play with. Adding an Xbox wouldn't seem to make that any less secure. I'd also reject #4 as for the aforementioned reason that planes already offer Wifi. | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 11:23 | comment | added | Robotnik | @DavidRicherby - Perhaps they don't need to have the consoles in the cabin (which is a regulated pressure & temperature environment), but instead run cables from a cooler area of the plane. USB works over 10m-20m without a signal boost (I ran 15m cables once, don't ask). and HDMI is longer. | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 11:16 | comment | added | Jon Story | @alephzero - if you can persuade Ryanair to spend $60,000 per aircraft on Xboxes for their fleet, you're a better salesman than I am. And it's as much about the additional weight, cooling, power system modifications, fuel use as it is about the initial cost | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 10:22 | comment | added | alephzero | I agree with points 2-5, but point 1 is way off target. The price of a B737 (including the usual huge discounts on the "list price") is of the order of USD 10m. Another USD 60k is almost a rounding error. Or looking at it a different way, a mere ten cents on the ticket price would pay for a 300 dollar box over 10 years, at 300 flights a year (which is a very low number of flights, for a 737) | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 4:12 | comment | added | David Richerby | Heat dissipation might also be an issue if you put 300 Xboxes into a not-huge room. | |
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| Mar 16, 2016 at 11:22 | history | answered | Jon Story | CC BY-SA 3.0 |