A detachable seat mounted audio-visual entertainment system. The system
has locally storable, selectable, and updatable content. The passenger
in-flight entertainment device terminal has passenger selectable
controls, a video display, an audio output, storage media such as a
magnetic or "hard disc", and a payment interface device such as a card
swipe, all located in a seat which has been wired with power, local
network, and audio wiring. A local, transport vehicle mounted local host
computer provides supports the local network, and may be used to collect
revenue slips resulting from passenger input to the payment interface
device. Revenue slips may be posted to a remote server during a trip
segment via satellite or direct radio frequency communication to
receiving facilities providing connection to the internet, or alternately
collected and posted batch wise.
