In flight entertainment has gone digital as American Airlines recently announced the availability of Archos 704 personal media players on transcontinental flights for passengers in both first class and business class. The Archos 605 will also be made available to passengers on MD80 flights between Los Angeles and Chicago. First class passengers enjoy the experience for free while the rest get to rent the player during the flight.
Programming on both players come with a choice of 12 different feature films; up to 15 hours of episodes from popular television shows, news programs, music videos, 14 American Airlines-branded audio channels. There will also be selectable mp3s from over 50 popular music artists.
The Archos 704 also come with Bose QuietComfort 3 Acoustic Noise headphones, and a 7-inch touch style LCD screen. The 605 model will also have choices for kids including the up to 2 hours of the Cartoon Network and come with a 4.5-inch screen.
The four month test program will determine whether flight attendants can keep in flight theft down in order to roll out the program nationwide.
Source from prnewswire.com
