Why United Does Not Allow You To Use In-Flight Screen As Extended Display

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My wife does this. At 2am. Often mid week. And wonders why I wake up in the middle of the night and grumpy.

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So... I'm pretty sure the entire plane wasn't on Bluetooth headphones then.

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By earphones I mean in-ear models. Maybe there is some weird over-ear model with that feature, but when IEMs add the Bluetooth feature, the cord gets cut from the design

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Damn, you're right. For many years I used the Bose Quiet Comfort 20, but those aren't made anymore. There are still some options but none of them look great. The major brands just stopped making them. Ironically the first pair I found was USB-C with an adapter.

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And the entire plane wouldn't be on Bluetooth headphones if the in-flight infotainment systems supported it as an option so what's your point?

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I didn't want that model because you can't switch the cable. I'm not paying $100 for something that breaks when the cable breaks (which is always the first thing to go)

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I mean, those are your own arbitrary limits. That's fine, more power to ya, but it means you'll do without it. Meanwhile i used mine for 15 years of travel and the only thing wrong with it is the rubbery outside of the ANC block has come off, is purely cosmetic. Still works as good as new.

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You don't engineer a system with such an obvious fail state.

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I disagree that its an obvious fail state. Surely with all of these airlines flying thousands of passengers daily, we'd have at least a handful or reports of spotty bluetooth on flights, right? Where are they?

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People do run into problems. It's well known that too many Bluetooth devices in a small area can jam each other. It's not an on/off switch, it's increasing amounts of interference in the signal. So it appears as interruptions in audio/video or unintended noise.

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The Sony Linkbuds S are more repairable because you can just replace the battery (it's not soldered)

I have wired Sennheiser headphones I can't use because the cable is not modular and it's snapped somewhere

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@iopq @threshold_dweller There's been quite a few wired earbuds with ANC over the years. Not many now though. I would imagine they sound like a dreadful compromise.

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I wouldn't call it quite a few, you can count them in your hand

On the other hand, there's thousands of TWS

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I'd like to inform myself on this topic more. Have you found any discussions or observations that you could link to, by chance?

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Why United Does Not Allow You To Use In-Flight Screen As Extended Display