Panasonic’s preparing a new inflight entertainment system, iPod Merge, for take off, that’ll lash your iPod, iPhone or digital camera up to the screen in front of you. Wave goodbye to Seinfeld reruns and Matthew McConaughey movies!
The Panasonic iPod Merge is an inflight entertainment system designed for commercial airlines that lets you pop Apple’s MP3 player into the system, or a digital camera via USB so you can bore others with slideshows of your travels before you even get home.
Several airlines already offer playback of iPods on the seat in front of you, but Panasonic iPod Merge goes one step further, hauling up all the metadata in your media and letting you browse through it and control it on screen through its own GUI.
Panasonic says the set up should be out by the Autumn. We hope Panasonic iPod Merge makes it out of business class quickly after that though: it’ll be wasted on all those suits with their BlackBerries.
