What do you think is the world's best inflight entertainment system on what airline?

What do you think is the world's best inflight entertainment system on what airline?

My laptop/iPad stocked with movies/shows which I actually want to watch on any airline with power sockets in the seats.

Moreover, I only really use the IFE for tracking the flight progress and for any external camera views.

Let's be honest, virtually all of the (legacy) airlines use the same IFE systems (betcha it's either Panasonic, Thomson or Rockwell Collins), generally with similar entertainment content.

As long as it doesn't take 45 seconds to load a video or the inflight map, or even crash (I'm looking at you BA) then it's all good. Up to preference, really.

Can't say I've been on enough of a variety of airlines to say definitely, but I liked icelandair because their entertainment starts when you first sit down and ends when you leave the plane.

And I hate AA for not having any personal TVs, even in domestic first class, which is pretty lame.

And I hate the QF touchscreen, which is about 25 generations behind the technology behind an iPad. Who else has had to aim their finger about 1 cm lower than where they wanted to press in order to start a film? And what's with the commercials at the beginning and the erratic fast forwarding?? 

So by elimination my favourite is CX, with whom I've never experienced any major issues. 

spinoza - Isn't no personal IFEs more of a short-haul domestic thing rather than exclusively an AA problem? Most of my short-haul QF, VA, AA, UA flights are those where there's no personal IFEs. It's an industry thing. Good time to catch up on a book. AA mid-haul/coast-to-coast has personal IFEs though, and a not crappy offering at that.

Also, more and more airlines are starting to introduce gate-to-gate personal IFE policies, quite in vogue for them to do that at the moment (probably too many complaints). Noticed it more recently with the Aussie carriers for long-hauls. It's good that airlines like FI did set the trend.

(I'm starting to sound like an IFE nutjob.)

That's true, I guess you're right on that count. I was just bitter about the overall traumatic experience of being on the "widow maker" MD-80 with the roaring engines at the back. 

On second thought some of the AA first class flights did have IFE, but it was 2 screens at the front, and the screen looked like the original macintosh and was smaller than my ipad mini

:)

I've never tried Emirates ICE but by review they seem quite swell.

I don't have a single fave per se but for me, it'd be a system which does the following:

• has a large high-quality screen
• theheadphone jack is easy to see / easy to reach without the cable getting in your way during the meal
• content includes a recent selection of movies, a truckload of 'classics' and boxed sets of TV shows so you can watch several episodes back to back
• there's no shoving five or six adverts in front of every video

Why oh why don't airlines have a dedicated Sci Fi/Fantasy channel??

How I would love to do a Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Matrix, Stargate marathon on a long haul flight...*sigh* 

You're in a metal tube flying at around 900 km/h while being around 10km above the surface of the Earth - isn't that enough science fiction for you? :)

Hahahaha! Good one!

I think Air New Zealand have a fantastic IFE on their newer aircraft. The fact that I can watch a great selection of movies/programmes etc and also order food/drink on the same screen without waiving down cabin crew is a win.

Best entertaimnt can be found in business class and it called flat bed. Or you asking what I watching on those screens? Only fly path.

I like QF's international IFE for the simple reason they have several episodes of each TV show. It annoys me when there's only 1 or 2 episodes of each show. First world problems