Lufthansa Technik begins deliveries of nice HD CMS / IFE system

Lufthansa Technik's Innovation Business Unit has begun production deliveries of its nice® HD CMS / IFE (cabin management & and in-flight entertainment) system for the new Learjet 70 and Learjet 75.

The nice® HD system featured on both the Learjet 70 and Learjet 75 aircraft will include personal HD video at most seat locations via 7-inch pop-up HD displays. The pop-ups have an ultra-thin, small and light-weight design.

The nice® HD system includes a number of media interfaces (USB, Apple, HDMI) that will enable encoding and streaming on the Ethernet network by simply connecting personal devices to the system to watch and / or to listen. Lufthansa Technik / Innovation has also developed a multifunctional nice® HD media center unit that includes a Blu-ray player with built-in storage and update software packages that transform it into a media server, an Audio / Video on Demand (AVoD) Server, both wired and wireless, and a map Server. One unit can host all the applications and simultaneously playback two applications at once in HD, all in a mechanical housing that is smaller than the current nice® DVD player.

The highly integrated digital nice® HD system is based on a wired and wireless high-bandwidth Ethernet network. A third generation User Interface (UI) combines a scroll-wheel with an corresponding animated Graphical User Interface. Alternatively a touchscreen control is also offered. nice® HD users are also able to control all cabin functions via a wireless application on their iPhone or iPad.

Thanks to its open IP architecture, nice® HD is highly configurable and flexible, allowing Lufthansa Technik to offer a wide number of cabin equipment packages – from lighting and environmental control to the integration of third-party solutions such as satellite communications and TV, portable audio / video devices or cameras. Developed with Highly Accelerated Life Test (HALT) and manufactured under Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS) procedures, the nice® HD system is both reliable and easy to maintain.

The nice® HD also meets today's stringent requirements for the legal streaming of HD content with integrated Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Hollywood-approved encryption. DRM is a system for protecting copyrighted data by enabling secure distribution and preventing illegal use of the data.