Apple investigating inflight iTunes!

Looks like Apple are being approached about getting iTunes running on IFE to allow people to download content to iPods etc. Could be very interesting!

Link Here

{HighFlyer: Edit to tidy URL}

already starting to have the tips to charge your i-pods too! [y]

(although I know that was mentioned in a different thread....)[:I]

Although Singapore, Luthansia etc already indirectly offer this through connexions WiFi..
Still i'll be good to see it on an IFE directly

I hope they make up their minds soon. I was wondering. So let me get this straight. Someone could be able to get their ipod charged on IFE for free? That would be awesome. Yet where would all that power come from?

Originally posted by TheRegular
...Yet where would all that power come from?

Charging an ipod takes a very small amount of power: At UK/EU mains voltage a single ipod step-down transformer will draw < 50mA (probably actually less than 25). If you have, say, 200 ipods charging at once then that amounts to a total mains current of 5 to 10 Amps, which is the equivalent of 10 to 20 standard (100W) mains light bulbs. In reality the figure will be lower, because the transformers will be more efficient than standard consumer items. This level of demand is insignificant in comparison with the generator capacity of a passenger aircraft.

So, you won't cause the aircraft to run out of power because you charge your ipod!

Best wishes

David

Oh phew thats good. So this will be free?