You can spent millions of dollars on a Boeing airplane, but they can’t fit a decent VCR? It seems planes worldwide use a tape based system for their playback. This means lines, distorted pictures and general crap quality.
In this day and age of ipods and media servers why is it still so? I can understand not having optical drives, like DVD or CD, as turbulence would course a heap of issues, but surely flash memory has reached a point where it is possible to store content at minimal cost.
Imagine the benefits for the airlines. Pull up to the gate and then using a Wi-Fi connection they simply upload the latest news or media content to the plane.
Maybe it’s a copyright issue and they think if they make the quality crap then the staff won’t steal the tapes. With a solid state solution you could get around this by having no tapes. It would be the ultimate closed loop solution.
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