Spokesman Phil Gee said the company will test lighter, seat-back entertainment sets later in the year.
He introduced seat-back entertainment, onboard ice cream and limos for business customers to create a customer-focused brand.
Nevertheless, many airlines say there is still plenty of life left in seat-back screens, especially as they grow larger and more sophisticated.
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Tray tables can be contaminated, and seat-back pockets, which get stuffed with used tissues, soiled napkins and trash, can be particularly skuzzy.
Or when Virgin Atlantic set a new standard in air travel, offering manicures, massages and limo rides to the airport for first-class passengers and giving economy travelers seat-back entertainment systems with a choice of movies and videogames.
This makes the rear seat more comfortable, something Honda says midsize sedan buyers value more than a split-folding seat back.
However, it has evolved far from this back-seat role to carve it's own identity and attracts a fiercely loyal crowd that keeps coming back for more.
But when it comes to high-end "transformer" jackets, as Mr. Jennings calls them, novelty value takes a back seat to straight-up value.
Applied naively, they become back-seat driving mechanisms with which investors can micromanage startups, to the detriment of both.
Lewis would manage both companies, but he would take a back-seat to Lampert.
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It seems likely, however, that politics will take a back-seat to showbiz.
Some of the newer digital models have 360-degree scanning, for example, which allows the device to scan automatically for a dominant voice say, the back-seat driver and emphasize the sound coming from there.
Data collected now that aren't in use yet include elevation data to calculate roadway grades, which may become a crucial metric for back-seat drivers being built into the next generation of trucks and cars.
For example, the American Association of Importers and Exporters is said to be upset because its members who are also waiting to be paid by Russia for goods already delivered will take a back-seat to Eximbank in this repayment scheme?
The seat back is for storing dime-store novels, magazines, food items, and that crying baby three rows back.
In America, where notoriety is as, if not more valued, than noteworthiness, integrity takes a back seat to Q-ratings.
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In the basketball teams that fly charter, bosses take a back seat to the workers--literally.
As the cab sped off, he placed the suitcase in the back seat of the mini-van.
Her father, Lloyd Dubroff, was apparently sitting in the back seat of the four-seat Cessna 177B.
Cabin crew or those "less close" to the president are sent to a cramped 12-seat economy class cabin at the back of the plane.
London taxis are designed to be commodious to an English gentleman's top hat in the back seat and a trans-Atlantic steamship chest in the trunk.
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But all questions and concerns take a back seat from April 7-April 10, during the Masters, which is the best golf tournament in the world.
Engineers and designers eagerly watch as we test out plush seat recliners, back massagers and high-end audio systems all of which seem taken straight from a multimillion-dollar mansion.
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Mr Veltroni was, it is true, constantly undermined by Massimo D'Alema, a PD baron and former prime minister whose refusal to take a back seat weakened the centre-left.
True to our seat-of-the-pants form back in those days, Charlie and I met at 11:30 at night on the vacant main street in the town of Hancock, NY, with no motel reservations.
Hu set off for downtown Beijing, working the phone and e-mailing from the back seat of a car, directing her staff to rent a satellite phone and get a crew to Sichuan.
Brown, who saw the crash from his 38th-row seat in the Petty grandstand, said he would be back in the same section for the season-opening Sprint Cup event.
But Moulder came and went quickly, putting Soon-Shiong back in the CEO seat.
Non-trophy canvasses took a back seat at both modern and contemporary art sales.
Pre-1991, economics took a back seat to military concerns when it came to deterrence.
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