From PublicAddress.net
Air New Zealand is equipping 18 of its planes with some cool new media kit, according to The Register. El Reg makes much of the fact that the Panasonic X Series in-flight entertainment system includes an iPod dock, but there seems to be much more to it than that: including broadband internet, VoIP, secure payments and a suite of games with multiplayer options. The exact configuration is up to the airline.
The implication seems to be that the seat-back kit will be fitted throughout the plane, and not just where Graham Reid sits.
I was a bit puzzled about why the iPod functionality would be such a big deal -- can't you listen to your iPod solo anyway? -- but the system gives you an LCD iPod menu display and noise-cancelling.
Cool.
It's just a bugger I'm unlikely to be flying anywhere outside New Zealand this year.