In-Flight Movies

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Jetsgo to offer in-flight entertainment

Globe and Mail Update

MONTREAL, May 27 — Jetsgo is offering Canadian air travelers the digEplayer, a self-contained, portable video-on-demand entertainment unit preprogrammed with more than 20 movies, television shows, cartoons, videos and music choices. It is being provided in partnership with APS of Tacoma, Wash.

Jetsgo will initially make the units available on flights of three hours in length or longer, including routes from Toronto to Victoria, Vancouver, Abbotsford, Edmonton, Calgary, St. John's, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Florida. Passengers will be able to rent a digEplayer for $10.

Forty digEplayers will be available on each plane, beginning in July. Jetsgo has an exclusivity agreement with APS for Canadian airlines.

Content will be refreshed every 60 days. Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox currently have content provision agreements with APS, and additional studios are to be announced. Films in both English and French are made available one month ahead of store rentals.