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IPEC, the inflight entertainment (IFE) event of the year takes place at Hammersmith’s Novotel next week, an event for professional ‘techies’ the results of which we travellers see in two or three years` time. It runs concurrently with LARA, the low fare and regional summit, two conferences and one exhibition.

Both have their awards. The IFE shortlist contains the usual front runners in the airline IFE area - Emirates, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, plus Alaska Airlines whose APS/Wencor digEplayer is a handheld device which uses video-on-demand technology to deliver a spectrum of inflight entertainment choices.

The IFE Product of the Year is between the digEplayer, MAS (Panasonic) System 3000i and Thales TopSeries.

-iam