No Southwest Airlines seat-back displays? No problem. Bring your own device (laptop, tablet, or smartphone) and enjoy free access to 13 channels of live television on board Southwest’s 400 WiFi-enabled aircraft in exchange for sitting through a mere 30 seconds of pre-roll advertising. Beyond mile high video streaming, DISH and Southwest are further collaborating on the marketing front with a nationwide push – new DISH Hopper subscribers will receive 12,500 Rapid Reward points and an iPad 2.
(Sadly, Southwest retired their non-stop IAD-LAS route and we rarely have reason to fly them these days.)
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In other travel tech news, looks like e-cigarettes are still being sorted.
Neat idea even if it is low on channel count (especially compared to JetBlue DirectTV and Virgin America Dish offerings). It doesn't mention it but I assume it is browser based and won't require an iOS/Android app to work (or flash type app for laptops).
In any case, while DirectTV on JetBlue used to be a my favorite option, these days, TiVo + kmttg + iPad are my entertainment option of choice today.
Strangely, I only seem to watch TV Land when I'm flying - "catching up" on The Jeffersons and such. On the rare occasions I plan ahead, I'll load up a movie - often iTunes, but if TiVo Stream ever supports Android... But more often than not, I'll simply relax with a Kindle book. And it looks like the powers that be are contemplating allowing Kindles to remain on during take off and landing.