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1337Delta764 From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 5819 posts, RR: 2
Posted (7 years 7 months 13 hours ago) and read 2122 times:

Why on Delta's 767-200s and 767-300s the IFE controls use analog dials? The 757 uses buttons and features an LED display. As far as I can remember, even the L-1011 used buttons and had an LED display. Does anyone know about this?

Note that this could change on the 767-300 (non-ERs), which may get Song IFE.

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Aeroflot777 From Russia, joined Mar 2004, 2958 posts, RR: 30
Reply 1, posted (7 years 7 months 11 hours ago) and read 2033 times:

Well I guess this is the way they ordered the aircraft....They work absolutely fine, so there is no reason to waste money and change them to LED displays in my opinion. There would be no point in the change.

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1337Delta764 From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 5819 posts, RR: 2
Reply 2, posted (7 years 7 months 7 hours ago) and read 1951 times:

Quoting Aeroflot777 (Reply 1):
Well I guess this is the way they ordered the aircraft....They work absolutely fine, so there is no reason to waste money and change them to LED displays in my opinion. There would be no point in the change.

So why did they order the 757s with the more advanced controls? I do believe even the L-1011s had LED displays.

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Vasu From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2005, 3772 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (7 years 7 months 7 hours ago) and read 1933 times:

Quoting Aeroflot777 (Reply 1):
They work absolutely fine

I beg to differ... (well from personal experience anyway). They were old, some were cracked, and the sound quality coming out of the sockets was very very dodgy...

1337Delta764 From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 5819 posts, RR: 2
Reply 4, posted (7 years 7 months 7 hours ago) and read 1930 times:

Quoting Vasu (Reply 3):
beg to differ... (well from personal experience anyway). They were old, some were cracked, and the sound quality coming out of the sockets was very very dodgy...

Keep in mind that the tube type headphones are no longer used. Two metal prong electronic headphones are now used.

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Bpat777 From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 330 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (7 years 7 months 6 hours ago) and read 1889 times:

On a side note, does anyone know how many DL 762's are currently flying and what are the tail numbers?

DALMD88 From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 2370 posts, RR: 15
Reply 6, posted (7 years 6 months 4 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1738 times:

I think we have 6 767-200 still in service. Ship numbers; 101,102,106,109,113,and114. No word on future retirement dates.

Dl_mech From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 1769 posts, RR: 10
Reply 7, posted (7 years 6 months 4 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 1707 times:

Quoting 1337Delta764 (Reply 2):
So why did they order the 757s with the more advanced controls? I do believe even the L-1011s had LED displays.

The 757 IFE (audio/video) was not factory installed. It was installed in the late 80's-early 90's at the TOC. The older 767 IFE was installed at the factory in the early 80's and was what was available at the time. The L-1011's got digital controls (early 90's) when they were switched over from a Telephonics system to a Matsushita system.

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