IdeaNova Ad Player Updated, IFPL Offers Ancillary Revenue Option Via USB and Gogo Now Providing Inflight Connectivity Beginning At 3,000 Feet
IdeaNova Technologies Updated Ad Player Feature IdeaNova Technologies has updated their Inplay Player 6 product with advertising capabilities. The newest ad playback feature allows monetization of video content through dynamic pre-roll and midroll ad insertion. This new feature offers seamless navigation with markers indicating where the ad will be placed within the player, as well as the option to skip ads after the mandatory viewing time has expired. The ad skip functionality (See today's IFExpress Image) is configurable per ad, giving inflight entertainment providers the ability to control this functionality based on their business requirements. IdeaNova CTO Janne Pelkonen said, “We believe that customers ...
Sanitized Travel-Dedicated Apps and Other News
Today's image is ANA's A380 with the Orange Honu Livery. It made us smile and thought our readers would enjoy seeing it as well. PXCOM PXCom luanches Sanitized Travel-dedicated apps for IFEC platforms. It is a proven fact that keeping the middle seat empty is nonsense both economically speaking and from an overall hygiene standpoint. It has been widely debated over the past few weeks. However, inflight social distancing can be organized. Once again, PXCom brings to the market evidence that inflight servers can be used far beyond plain entertainment, by launching the In-Cabin Mobility Management (IC2M by PXCom) software suite dedicated to ...
New Inflight Entertainment Platform, RISE, Launched by Burrana
On Monday June 22, 2020 via a webinar (the foreseeable trend of the future), Burrana unveiled RISE, its latest, flexible and modular IFE platform, which they had planned to debut during AIX Germany this past April. The presentation was primarily run by David Pook - Vice President of Marketing and Sales Support, who joined Burrana in September 2019 after spending the past 15 years at the Thales InFlyt Experience. “RISE was created to solve airlines’ most challenging issues regarding in-flight entertainment, while providing passengers with an experience unlike any other”, said Pook. The RISE platform consists of hardware, software, apps, and services ...
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IdeaNova Ad Player Updated, IFPL Offers Ancillary Revenue Option Via USB and Gogo Now Providing Inflight Connectivity Beginning At 3,000 Feet
IdeaNova Technologies Updated Ad Player Feature IdeaNova Technologies has updated their Inplay Player 6 product with advertising capabilities. The newest ad playback feature allows monetization of video content through dynamic pre-roll and midroll ad insertion. This new feature offers seamless navigation with markers indicating where the... [Read more]
Sanitized Travel-Dedicated Apps and Other News
Today’s image is ANA’s A380 with the Orange Honu Livery. It made us smile and thought our readers would enjoy seeing it as well. PXCOM PXCom luanches Sanitized Travel-dedicated apps for IFEC platforms. It is a proven fact that keeping the middle seat empty is nonsense both economically speaking and from an overall hygiene standpoint.... [Read more]
New Inflight Entertainment Platform, RISE, Launched by Burrana
On Monday June 22, 2020 via a webinar (the foreseeable trend of the future), Burrana unveiled RISE, its latest, flexible and modular IFE platform, which they had planned to debut during AIX Germany this past April. The presentation was primarily run by David Pook – Vice President of Marketing and Sales Support, who joined Burrana in... [Read more]
What to Expect the Next Time You Travel: From the Airport, Gate, Boarding and Aircraft
What You May Encounter The Next Time You Fly All of us know that we will experience many changes in the travel process as ‘non-essential’ air travel opens again. But what will it look like? And what are the airports and airlines doing to make the process safer? And is it sustainable over time? These are all questions that we have... [Read more]
Demand For Air Services Begin To Rebound and New Management Team at SITA
There may be a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel as there are signs that the aviation industry has seen the bottom of the crisis and started the slow recovery. Readers will see a report from IATA reflecting this uptick. We also note in Other News an article from the New York Times that talks about when epidemiologists will be willing... [Read more]
Update From FlightPath3D, SpaceX Crew Dragon and Other News
FlightPath3D Update: IFExpress recently had an opportunity to touch base via Zoom with Jon Norris, vice-president of Marketing, FlightPath3D and he gave us a glimpse of the latest developments we would have seen if AIX Germany had taken place. Building on their stellar moving map to enhance the inflight experience, as well as, increasing... [Read more]
SITA & Sovrin Make Inroads Toward Lifetime Electronic Identity/Passports & Cosmic Girl to Install PAC High Speed Connectivity System
If there is one word that aptly describes the future right now it is change. Strangely, the Coronavirus has been on of the biggest drivers we, as change receivers, have seen in recent decades. However, the shift in lifestyle as a result of this pandemic will both facilitate and accelerate some major changes for all of humanity. Frequently,... [Read more]
The Road To Recovery – What It May Look Like
Around the globe many governments have started the slow and cautious steps toward opening their economies. In the aviation sector, we have seen a slight up tick in the number of individuals traveling and have heard and/or seen the various reports of some flights experiencing 90% capacity, causing angst in many of the travelers (and probably... [Read more]
'Future–proofing' the IFE installation means providing an onboard network with sufficient bandwidth that the airline will never have to tear apart their airplane to re-wire to install upgrades. Fiber-to-the-Seat™ provides a fiber optics network running at a gigabit per second – High-definition video is only the beginning – who knows what the hot, killer apps will be 10-20 years from now?!”