QotD: In-Flight Entertainment

PhoneBoy
Jan 23, 2007 at 12:23 AM
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How do you pass the time during a flight? What do you bring in your carry-on?

I either listen to podcasts that I have downloaded to my Nokia phone or I watch videos I have downloaded from online and encoded to the 3GP format for use on a Nokia N93. I wrote a procedure for how to do this on a Mac fairly easily, and you can see the results.

The flights I usually take are only an hour and a half in the air. When I went to Finland in October, I had a bunch of stuff encoded on my phone, laptops, whatever had a battery that could play these videos. :)

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Next time I fly, I'll be bringing my PSP so that I can do some gaming if I feel so inspired, I expect. However, I've found that the best way to pass the time is with audiobooks, so my mainstill will be loading up a bunch of audiobooks. You can lean back in your seat and close your eyes and just listen to the story, but the narrative is strong enough that it helps the time pass very quickly.

When we recently went to New Zealand, they had personal entertainment systems where you could pick from a huge library of on-demand movies, so I just watched an endless stream of movies the whole way.

Audiobooks, podcasts, all the same business. My biggest problem right now is finding the time to watch all the great video content I get. I find I'm not all that interested in the in-flight entertainment systems, though the one on the SAS flight was pretty nice.

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