Does anyone here remember the Old drop down Screen on B738 first class
Jun 16, 2024, 12:32 am
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Does anyone here remember the Old drop down Screen on B738 first class
Flew LAX-EWR in 2004 in Domestic First Class and when I flew it My IFE option was the drop down screen in the aisle. For those that flew AA in 2004 onwards when those were replaced by what we have now Streaming only. Does anyone here remember that option on B737-800s domestic first class? For me I enjoyed it
Jun 16, 2024, 1:40 am
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No doubt, most here remember the dropdown screens since AA had them on some planes until just a few years ago. They were in Y as well as F. When you say "in the aisle", I think you mean on both sides of the aisle under the overhead bins, centered over the 2 seats (F) or 3 seats (Y).
Jun 16, 2024, 7:28 am
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For many years, USAirways got the Airbuses delivered with the LCD screens above the left and right sides of the cabin, every several rows. I remember when they were ripped out not long after the HP-US merger, with management claiming the reduced costs in weight, maintenance and content licensing would save them millions.
I did find some pics of AA planes with the screens in both the aisle and over the seats/under the overhead bins on 737's.
I did find some pics of AA planes with the screens in both the aisle and over the seats/under the overhead bins on 737's.
Jun 16, 2024, 9:02 am
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No doubt, most here remember the dropdown screens since AA had them on some planes until just a few years ago. They were in Y as well as F. When you say "in the aisle", I think you mean on both sides of the aisle under the overhead bins, centered over the 2 seats (F) or 3 seats (Y).
Jun 16, 2024, 9:08 am
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In their final years on short hops, I always wondered who elected to show the annoying NBC universal content over a simple flight tracker map, or how much AA was being paid by NBC for that
Lol my memory of those on the 752, not too long ago, is one getting stuck half way down and the FA punching it quite hard to unjam it.
Jun 16, 2024, 9:16 am
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Flew LAX-EWR in 2004 in Domestic First Class and when I flew it My IFE option was the drop down screen in the aisle. For those that flew AA in 2004 onwards when those were replaced by what we have now Streaming only. Does anyone here remember that option on B737-800s domestic first class? For me I enjoyed it
Jun 16, 2024, 9:34 am
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100%. The CRT TVs on Narrow-bodies. How about the Projectors on the bulkhead walls for movies on Wide-bodies.
My 2nd trip on a commercial airplane included a connection on AA DC-10 ORD-LAX. You had to decipher from the pages near the back of the In Flight Magazine what movie you might get depending on if it was the First half of the month, or the back half, and whether you were travelling Eastbound or Westbound. And even then sometimes it was a different movie...
My 2nd trip on a commercial airplane included a connection on AA DC-10 ORD-LAX. You had to decipher from the pages near the back of the In Flight Magazine what movie you might get depending on if it was the First half of the month, or the back half, and whether you were travelling Eastbound or Westbound. And even then sometimes it was a different movie...
Jun 16, 2024, 9:49 am
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I also remember hollow plastic tube "earbuds" for the sound. There is something said about the pull-down screen on the front of the cabin on wide bodies, the screen size. I wonder if people are satisfied with watching content on a cell phone's small screen. When I want to see a movie or live stream TV (usually a sports game) during the flight, I take out my laptop computer because of the size of the screen.
Jun 16, 2024, 10:22 am
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Flew LAX-EWR in 2004 in Domestic First Class and when I flew it My IFE option was the drop down screen in the aisle. For those that flew AA in 2004 onwards when those were replaced by what we have now Streaming only. Does anyone here remember that option on B737-800s domestic first class? For me I enjoyed it
Jun 16, 2024, 10:40 am
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I remember flying a UA 744 (think it was called global first for about 70K RT miles) from SFO-LHR in 2009 and you were given your own personal VHS C library. lol
Jun 16, 2024, 10:45 am
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Jun 16, 2024, 11:35 am
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I also remember hollow plastic tube "earbuds" for the sound. There is something said about the pull-down screen on the front of the cabin on wide bodies, the screen size. I wonder if people are satisfied with watching content on a cell phone's small screen. When I want to see a movie or live stream TV (usually a sports game) during the flight, I take out my laptop computer because of the size of the screen.
Jun 16, 2024, 5:38 pm
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Jun 16, 2024, 6:24 pm
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Important caveat: That picture with dropdown screens over the aisle is not a real AA plane! What shocked and confused me is that the safety card indicates the MAX 8, which was first delivered to AA in 2017 and has never had IFE screens. Also, the American Way cover is from January 2018. Sure enough, the photo is actually of a training mockup that does not match the actual configuration.
It appears to be a training mock up from this company: https://www.newton-design.com/lm-cabin-service