Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by sour-taste 1185 days ago
Watching TV/movies on the airplane screens is better than your phone/ipad because the screens are sometimes bigger, the content may be different (sometimes newly released movies show up earlier than netflix), and the screen is positioned in a more comfortable place for viewing while leaning back into your seat.

Playing games on those screens sucks: the controls are bad, the input latency is bad, the screens are usually pretty low fps (30 in the best case), and the hardware running the games is underpowered.

Playing games on your phone is better than the screen, watching stuff is better on the screen, so while this may be a cost cutting measure I'm fine with it for the most part.