FDS Gets Hollywood Nod for HD Streaming on Bizjets

Six big Hollywood studios have approved movie content rights on business aircraft equipped with FDS Avionics’s do Capsule wireless in-flight entertainment system. The company’s licensing agreement with Global Eagle, the airline industry’s provider of in-flight content, was central to securing the studio streaming approvals for movies and TV shows to be shown aboard business jets.

FDS and the do Capsule inflight entertainment platform are bringing the first-ever wireless HD streaming content to business jet passengers,” said FDS Avionics CEO Reed Macdonald. “Leading HD movies and television shows together with our high-definition 3D moving maps have positioned FDS and the do Capsule as the in-flight entertainment standard.”

To load the tiered content, aircraft operators insert a solid-state drive into the do Capsule, enabling up to 22 passengers to simultaneously navigate and watch hundreds of HD and SD titles. FDS is taking orders for the streaming content, which will begin shipping shortly aboard its IFE platform. Entertainment packages include a premium-level lineup of 360 titles, a mid-level package with 180 titles, and another with 90 titles.