Boeingluvr From United Kingdom (England), joined Jun 2007, 416 posts, RR: 0 Posted (7 months 3 weeks 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 3129 times:
Flew LHR-YVR a couple of days ago on a 744. Noticed that there was a new IFE system installed. Full touch screen menu with tv and movies you can view whenever you want. No continuous cycle as previous flights had. It must have been very recently introduced, as I flew YYC-LHR 2 weeks earlier and this system was not installed, or perhaps only installed currently on certain aircraft. I have to say it's a great new system and kept me very well entertained. Anyone experience this also lately on BA flights?
Planefixer From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2006, 33 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (7 months 3 weeks 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 3107 times:
The new AVOD system is only fitted to the BA 747 fleet and 767 longhaul fleet at the moment, the 777 will get it when the new Club World is fitted sometime this year
Boeingluvr From United Kingdom (England), joined Jun 2007, 416 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (7 months 3 weeks 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 3082 times:
Yes, well being a first 744 flight for me I was surprised at the comfort as well as the entertainment on board.
Shamrock350 From Ireland, joined Mar 2005, 4485 posts, RR: 8 Reply 6, posted (7 months 3 weeks 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 3071 times:
How did you find the touch screen, was it easy to use?
Quoting Planefixer (Reply 2): The new AVOD system is only fitted to the BA 747 fleet and 767 longhaul fleet at the moment, the 777 will get it when the new Club World is fitted sometime this year
Oh right thanks, wasn't sure if it was 777 or 767.
Boeingluvr From United Kingdom (England), joined Jun 2007, 416 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (7 months 3 weeks 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 3044 times:
The system was incredibly easy to use. I really enjoyed it. It is available in all classes. I was in World Traveller Plus, and the only thing was some of the games said available in WTP due to the different controld used in WTP for the IFE. All in all I think a great improvement over the old!
B747-4U3 From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2002, 610 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (7 months 3 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 2957 times:
I've just used LHR-HKG-LHR and it was excellent. The selection of movies, games and short programmes was one of the best, with plenty of choice. I was quite content playing who wants to be a millionaire on board. I was somewhat disappointed though by the selection of music. In short it was rubbish. It wasn't a huge problem though as I had my trusty iPod.
Boeingluvr From United Kingdom (England), joined Jun 2007, 416 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (7 months 3 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 2908 times:
I think some games are just not all. I agree it was a blast playing tetris on my flight. I agree the selection of tv and movies and being able to start, stop, pause, rewind whenever u want is a great feature. Again I also agree music selection is crap.
EIRules From Ireland, joined Aug 2007, 238 posts, RR: 2 Reply 10, posted (7 months 3 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 2883 times:
The ystem, when it works is excellent. I had it on my 747 flights to JFK last month. On the way back it kept breaking down however and had to be reset 3 times and in the end the crew couldnt get it to work. When it did work itwas excellent however
Davescj From United States, joined Jun 2007, 1254 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (7 months 3 weeks 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 2788 times:
The AVOD is great when it works. I've had it flip out and not show anything, even to the point of the whole plane having to reset.....pain in the ***.
Was in F Jan 3, and volume was stuck on MAX volume........after the CSD reset, was still stuck on MAX volume.....I gave up and went to sleep. The only way I could deal with it was plug in the head phones, but have them away from my ears.
Speedbird2155 From United Kingdom (England), joined Feb 2005, 653 posts, RR: 4 Reply 13, posted (7 months 3 weeks 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 2725 times:
The system is indeed a much needed improvement. There were a number of issues with the implementation, which have for the most part been sorted. There are still some issues, usually with individual seats, but compared to a few months back, the system has settled in nicely. Had it on flights I did in December and it helped pass the time. The 777s should start getting the system this year, but not all of them will receive it, due to a different system currently in use on some of the 777s.
Sketty222 From United Kingdom (England), joined Mar 2006, 1037 posts, RR: 1 Reply 15, posted (7 months 3 weeks 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 2700 times:
Quoting B747-4U3 (Reply 8): I don't think games are available in Y
I flew LHR-JFK in April and I had the AVOD on my flight. I travelled out in WT and back in WTP and both cabins had exactly the same features, films, games and music. I have to agree that the selection of music could be updatedto a better standard but AVOD is so much better than BA's old IFE system
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TUIflyer From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2008, 166 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (7 months 3 weeks 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 2507 times:
Nice to see BA investing in their product; with all the enhancements that other airlines like UA, BD and others are making its about time they make sure their product continues to stay ahead of the rest and provide value.
Farnborough24 From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2007, 167 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (7 months 3 weeks 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 2438 times:
Hi all. Perhaps someone can enlighten me here, but just why ARE AVOD systems seemingly so unreliable? Every time I've flown with AVOD there have been problems (on a recent First Choice flight to Kenya we were told the entire in flight entertainment system would be unavailable, and that they had been trying to fix it for 2 hours etc etc, only for it then to mysteriously work perfectly right after takeoff and for the subsequent 9 hours), and every time I read about airlines introducing it there always seem to be serious reliability problems. How is it that aircraft can contain computer systems to fly the thing inch perfectly at several hundred miles an hour over thousands of miles and put it down on a 45m wide strip at exactly the right speed, and yet can't contain a system to show different programs at once reliably? Hell, surely if they throw enough processing power at it companies can get them to do it? I mean on my laptop I could watch 2 films at once easily enough, so surely can't that just be scaled up? I'm aware I'm very probably being hugely naive here, but does anyone know any intrinsic reasons why computers are generally so good and capable, but AVOD systems are so often absolutely rubbish?
Sorry if that appeared something of a rant, but it has been getting to me for a while now why nobody seemed to ask this question!
Boeingluvr From United Kingdom (England), joined Jun 2007, 416 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (7 months 3 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 2354 times:
Hard to say. Remember billions are put into the systems that have developed and has given us these amazingly precise and incredibly advnaced machines. I doubt near a fraction of that has been put into the IFE for the a/c. I guess they're are some kinks to work out tho.
TristarSteve From Sweden, joined Nov 2005, 2112 posts, RR: 11 Reply 20, posted (7 months 3 weeks 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 2223 times:
Quoting Farnborough24 (Reply 18): Perhaps someone can enlighten me here, but just why ARE AVOD systems seemingly so unreliable?
I work on an AVOD B777 every day. I find that the actual system is very reliable, but the biggest problem is the bits that the passengers can see. Every day at least one handset is presented to me, ripped off its cable, every other day one of the TV screens happens to fall off its arm, and whenever an individual seat is not working it is always someone has managed to kick the plugs off the underseat controller. I think that AVOD would be great without pax!!!!
We introduced a new AVOD system two years ago, and the improvement in overall reliabilty has been outstanding. The older pre-AVOD system was always inop, the new AVOD system very rarely.
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