May 16, 2007 – MALAYSIA Airlines has ordered $1 million-worth of eVU handheld IFE players from e.Digital of California.

The deal is the final part of a package worth a total of $2.5 million that e.Digital announced at the end of March. Also included were contracts to supply Lufthansa and Alitalia.

e.Digital says that eVU offers 14 hours of continuous video playback from a single battery charge. It is available with either a 7in or an 8in high-resolution LCD screen and between 40Gb and 200Gb of storage.

Lufthansa plans to introduce the player on its transatlantic all-business-class services and on its Airbus A300-600 long-haul flights. Beginning this summer, Lufthansa will offer eVUs to passengers on the 48-seat Airbus A319LRs and 44-seat Boeing BBJs that it operates between New York Newark and Munich, and between Newark and Chicago O'Hare and Dusseldorf. eVU will also be supplied in business class on the A300-600s.

Alitalia has ordered 120 units for use by premium-class passengers. The deal was the first to have been announced by e.Digital outside the terms of its agreement with UK-based Mezzo, which includes eVU in the turnkey IFE service that it supplies to British low-cost carriers Jet2 and Flyglobespan and transatlantic premium-only operator Silverjet. Mezzo says that another three undisclosed airlines are also offering the service, in pre-rollout form.

May 16, 2007 – MALAYSIA Airlines has ordered $1 million-worth of eVU handheld IFE players from e.Digital of California.

The deal is the final part of a package worth a total of $2.5 million that e.Digital announced at the end of March. Also included were contracts to supply Lufthansa and Alitalia.

e.Digital says that eVU offers 14 hours of continuous video playback from a single battery charge. It is available with either a 7in or an 8in high-resolution LCD screen and between 40Gb and 200Gb of storage.

Lufthansa plans to introduce the player on its transatlantic all-business-class services and on its Airbus A300-600 long-haul flights. Beginning this summer, Lufthansa will offer eVUs to passengers on the 48-seat Airbus A319LRs and 44-seat Boeing BBJs that it operates between New York Newark and Munich, and between Newark and Chicago O'Hare and Dusseldorf. eVU will also be supplied in business class on the A300-600s.

Alitalia has ordered 120 units for use by premium-class passengers. The deal was the first to have been announced by e.Digital outside the terms of its agreement with UK-based Mezzo, which includes eVU in the turnkey IFE service that it supplies to British low-cost carriers Jet2 and Flyglobespan and transatlantic premium-only operator Silverjet. Mezzo says that another three undisclosed airlines are also offering the service, in pre-rollout form.