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Why United Does Not Allow You To Use In-Flight Screen As Extended Display (reason.com)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The second we get a better short range wireless protocol so there aren't a hundred Bluetooth devices jamming each other on the plane.

If you travel a lot they do make airplane headphones that have a 3.5mm connector and run noise cancelling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've been on budget flights where the in-flight infotainment was an app on your phone which connects to a media server on the plane. Everyone was watching with Bluetooth headphones and there were no issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The budget airline handed out wireless headphones?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No, you bring your own.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So... I'm pretty sure the entire plane wasn't on Bluetooth headphones then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And the entire plane wouldn't be on Bluetooth headphones if the in-flight infotainment systems supported it as an option so what's your point?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You don't engineer a system with such an obvious fail state.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I disagree that its an obvious fail state. Surely with all of these airlines flying thousands of passengers, where users watch infotainment on their own devices, mostly with bluetooth, we'd have at least a handful or reports of spotty bluetooth on flights, right? Where are they, then?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

People do run into problems. It's well known that too many Bluetooth devices in a small area can jam each other. It's not an on/off switch, it's increasing amounts of interference in the signal. So it appears as interruptions in audio/video or unintended noise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I'd like to inform myself on this topic more. Have you found any discussions or observations that you could link to, by chance?