Teague will be celebrating 60 years

in the aviation business at this year’s

Expo. The Seattle-based industrial

design firm has been working

with Boeing since 1946,

creating visionary architecture

and interiors for

the 707, 737, 747, 757,

767, and most recently the

record-breaking 777 and

the revolutionary 787.

Known for its distinct,

imaginative concepts and collaborative

design style, Teague’s latest

project is a partnership

with Panasonic, to

help design the new

Personal Media

Player (PMP),

which goes into

service with

Mexican Airlines

this April. The PMP

is a self-contained

entertainment device that

provides hours of personalized

movies, music and

games to onboard passengers.

www.aircraftinteriors-expo.com/hamburg

Phantom Media will present

Bluebox – an advanced, affordable

hybrid IFE system delivering ondemand

digital content, deep data

capture, WiFi connectivity and much

more besides. Bluebox delivers

upwards of 160 hours of multilanguage

video content plus

hundreds of hours of digital audio.

Premium content includes advanced

gaming, virtually live video news and

new Worldview interactive 3D flight

maps. According to Phantom, benefits

include low cost of ownership,

ultra low weight, future-proof

evolution with new technology, and

revenue-generating pay-per-view

capability. But that’s not all: Bluebox

is an authentically wireless system; its

low heat output and low energy consumption

translate to substantial fuel

savings over wired systems; all content

is secure; it supports the latest

games; its open system architecture

allows easy data loading and update

of content and graphics; it is proven

rugged and reliable in rigorous field

testing; and it provides deep data

capture to identify user trends and

individual passenger profiling.

IMS Inflight will present its Personal

Entertainment Appliance, a portable,

handheld IFE unit already in service

with a number of airlines, including

American, Eos, Harmony, Varig,

Excel, and others. IMS offers a range

of portable solutions that include

hardware, content, and content

management in a turnkey package.

The company will also feature its

embedded data loading solution, the

Terminal Data Loader (TDL), which

it claims is driving the industry’s

migration from portable data loading

to embedded data loading. Led by

American Airlines, British Airways,

and Virgin America, airlines are turning

to embedded data loading to support

digital delivery’s increased data

requirements and security specifications.

IMS Inflight’s TDL (pictured)

supports portable media from removable

hard drives (RHDD) through AIT

tapes, DVDs, CDs, and USB 2.0 memory

sticks, and also supports GSM,

CDMA and 802.11 gate connections.

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phantom presents bluebox

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functionality

A supply

chain automation

and

integration specialist,

IMS offers a

range of content

management solutions, such as

CabinTrends data capture, a software

package that captures at each screen a

record of the content consumed. As

an applications service provider,

IMS offers content applications

such as Blast! and SkyStand delivering

Web-based news, information and

entertainment, as well as electronic

daily newspapers to the aircraft every

day and multiple times daily.