Press Release: Touch and castLabs JV moves IFE supply chain to the cloud
Touch Inflight Solutions and castLabs are pleased to announce the joint venture ABOVE, an open, standards-based platform for the encoding, s... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Hollywood
New clients in the offing, Lufthansa Systems is primed for market shift
Wireless IFE provider Lufthansa Systems is gearing up to announce deals with no fewer than three more airlines, Jan-Peter Gaense, director p... Continue Reading
Fast and Flexible: Inflight Dublin grows footprint in IFE
For the past few decades, content service providers (CSPs) have played a pivotal role in bringing entertainment content to IFE systems on bo... Continue Reading
Podcast 043: Entertaining passengers in face of changing landscape
Welcome to Episode 043 of the #PaxEx Podcast. Our guest for this episode is Tomás Romero, an award-winning writer/producer from Los Angeles ... Continue Reading
American champions women film directors with $50K Bonnie Award
When it comes to championing women directors and diversity during Hollywood awards season, nobody beats the Film Independent Spirit Awards. ... Continue Reading
Lufthansa Systems talks current and future connectivity, integration
With plans proceeding apace for European inflight Internet and streaming entertainment systems, including a fleetwide rollout of the latter ... Continue Reading
Panasonic looks to transform content loading with Zero Touch
SINGAPORE — Welcome to the end of the 30-day cycle for content updates. That is the message Panasonic Avionics is sending this week with the... Continue Reading
Podcast Episode 028: Seats, Lies and early window Videotape
Welcome to Episode 028 of the #PaxEx Podcast. Our guest for this episode is John Walton, an international aviation journalist who writes for... Continue Reading
Major Hollywood studios hit back at BAE Systems’ IFE claim
Hollywood ‘big six’ movie studios have hit back at BAE Systems’ claim that one of them has given its blessing to the defen... Continue Reading
BAE Systems stuns industry with studio approval for EW streaming
PORTLAND, OREGON — The big buzz on the first day of the APEX Expo this year is that BAE Systems had achieved the unthinkable: early window c... Continue Reading
Adapt or perish is the new edict for portable inflight entertainment
In his last book, Mind at the End of its Tether, H.G. Wells memorably opined: “Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexora... Continue Reading
Irish IFE player jumps into wireless space with new retail portal
It’s a groan-worthy scenario that occurs regularly: you’re flying medium-haul in the back of the “bus” and there’s no seat... Continue Reading
Can airlines offer a Gravity-defying experience via wireless IFE?
“You can only watch Gravity so many times.” So said a C-level executive at a growing ultra low-cost carrier (ULCC), who confided that he’s s... Continue Reading
Spafax goes Hollywood to be on forefront of content on-the-go
For the past few decades content service providers (CSPs) have played a pivotal role in bringing entertainment content to IFE systems on boa... Continue Reading
Company targets short-haul airlines with wireless IFE sans movies
What’s a wireless IFE solution without movie or television content? Why, it’s a wireless IFE solution tailor-made for truly short-haul carri... Continue Reading
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