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Travel Briefing: Personal Media Threatens In-Flight Entertainment

What’s in your bag? With so many folks carrying their own personal media for entertainment, airlines are shuffling to adjust. From traditional media to rapidly advancing tech, it’s increasingly difficult to hold the attention of passengers with a featured movie.

As Reuters reports: “Airlines around the world now spend millions of dollars annually upgrading their inflight entertainment systems, but iPods and other mobile entertainment gadgets could render all that useless. Besides bland airline food, one other certainty for most long-haul travelers flying in economy class has always been time passed with movies and games on a minuscule 5-inch screen provided by the airline. However, with USB ports and a power socket increasingly common even for economy class passengers on carriers such as Singapore Airlines Ltd and Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, the concept of in-flight entertainment could change.” Click Read More for additional information.