An experiment in light expression

This Monday I flew Jet Airways from Delhi to Bangalore and was pleasantly surprised by Jet Airways’ new in-flight entertainment system. The system has a good and contemporary music selection ranging from the unavoidable Himesh Reshammiya numbers to some good jazz. What stood out in the music experience was the jukebox function which allows users to quite easily select tracks and add them to a playlist. The jukebox does have its usability issues including 1) you cannot select songs from a particular album without actually selecting to ‘play’ that entire album 2) the playlist disappears from memory if the inflight entertainment system is shut off - which happened to the playlist i created before the flight took off 3) at some point you can get back to the main menu and have the song playing and have no way to turn off the song without actually selecting another one!

As such the system is quite visually savvy and the video selection isn’t all that bad but the availability of music in that 140 minutes flight made it a pleasant experience for me.
Apparantly the competition saw this coming and now Kingfisher has implemented Live TV in its flights - becoming one of the few airlines in the world to offer this service.

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