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.
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.
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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Unfortunately, physics, economics and entrepreneurship take a back seat to our legalistic, third-party payment system.
We set off from New York with our easily bored 3-year-old daughter strapped in the back seat.
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