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Yes, they would charge for headphones to watch the movie. The movie (there was only one, or maybe two on a long international flight) was played on CRT monitors
by bdowling 3y ago
Yes, they would charge for headphones to watch the movie. The movie (there was only one, or maybe two on a long international flight) was played on CRT monitors mounted on the ceiling of each cabin section.
That was 20+ years ago, before flat panel screens in every headrest that could tune into one of a couple dozen looping channels, and long, long before you could watch anything at any time from a huge library.
- turnsout 3y agoBefore that, they actually ran film projectors in some planes, using a variety of half-baked schemes.[0] Wild times! [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-flight_entertainment#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-flight_entertainment#Histor...
- dpig_ 3y agoYou skipped too far into the future with the "huge library" bit. Fixed: "long, long before you could watch [Season 2, Episodes 4 - 6 of Comedy Central Roast]."