{"id":72014914,"date":"2011-08-23T05:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/virgin-america-revolutionizes-in-flight-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2014-12-02T09:07:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T09:07:50","slug":"virgin-america-revolutionizes-in-flight-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/virgin-america-revolutionizes-in-flight-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin America Revolutionizes In-Flight Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Virgin&#8217;s Entertainment System Reinvents Travel<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div><a title=\"Virgin America Flight Tickets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/airlines\/virgin-america-flights-vx\">Virgin America<\/a>\u00a0has announced the launch of the Red\u2122 in-flight entertainment platform.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The new Red system provides some of the largest, personal television screens on <a title=\"Flights to Domestic Destinations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/deals\/cheap-domestic-flights\">domestic flights<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The entertainment on those individual touch screens includes: Over 700 hours of media content, \u00a0award-winning interactive features, \u00a024 television channels, 35 on-demand films, a 3,000 MP3 library (with which travelers can create their own play list), \u00a0kid\u2019s channels (with parental controls), videogames, interactive Google Maps, and a seat-to-seat text\/chat technology.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In addition, Virgin is expanding the range of nationally televised sporting events and offering a diverse selection of films, from blockbuster to foreign language.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And, in line with its progressive reputation, Virgin recently teamed up with independent content provider, SHFT.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>SHFT, a multi-media company founded by actor-filmmaker Adrian Grenier and film producer Peter Glatzer, sets out to share stories about how people use multi-media, art and culture, to present a means of environmentally sustainable living.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Peter and I are thrilled to have SHFT content featured on Virgin America. It&#8217;s not only the coolest way to fly, but it&#8217;s a responsible company in a sector where that&#8217;s a rarity \u2013 it&#8217;s a perfect fit for us,&#8221; said Adrian Grenier.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If Virgin has a goal of reinventing domestic travel, then having \u201cthe largest media library in the skies\u201d will certainly lend itself to \u201cbecom[ing] the airline of choice for entertainment and sports fans,&#8221; said David Cush, President and CEO of Virgin America.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source:\u00a0The Sacramento Bee<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin&#8217;s Entertainment System Reinvents Travel Virgin America\u00a0has announced the launch of the Red\u2122 in-flight entertainment platform. The new Red system provides some of the largest, personal television screens on domestic flights. The entertainment on those individual touch screens includes: Over 700 hours of media content, \u00a0award-winning interactive features, \u00a024 television channels, 35 on-demand films, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72014914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72014914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72014914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72014914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97170345,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72014914\/revisions\/97170345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72014914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72014914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72014914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}