Gogo Enhances Its Bizav Entertainment System

Gogo Business Aviation announced several enhancements yesterday to Gogo Vision, its wireless in-flight entertainment (IFE) system for business aviation. These include free hardware for in-hangar content updates, more predicable pricing and the capability to stream content to cabin monitors.

Thanks to the STX 800 hardware, now provided to customers at no cost, automatic content updates are available in a customer’s own hangar. Content  includes about 200 on-demand movies and TV shows, along with moving maps, news, flight progress information and destination weather. It can also still be updated at Gogo Cloud locations in the U.S. and Europe.

All content is stored on an on-board server and can be streamed directly to personal electronic devices and cabin monitors with a newly available Gogo Video Processor Unit. Previously, content could be streamed only to devices via Web browser software.

Gogo also unveiled a predictable monthly subscription of $525, in addition to $10 per movie or $6 per TV episode; this plan is capped at $895, no matter how many movies or episodes are viewed. John Wade, Gogo Business Aviation’s executive vice president and general manager, said Gogo Vision’s stored content solution is more economical than live streaming. “If you stream in-flight movies over a live connection from the ground, the cost of all those megabytes can be astronomical. Gogo Vision gives passengers a turnkey IFE experience, minus the unpredictable costs,” he said.