[canucklad]

I have to say that i made a menace of myself with my near neighbours on a recent flight with Emirates…And it’s best that the good people at Emirates don’t pay attention to the content and dialogue…..Roaring with laughter as I immersed myself in the Fawlty Towers box set….. So politicaly incorrect.. Lost count of the nationalities trashed… Could not hold back my loud guffawing as he set upon thrashing his car!

[lloydah]

So how do they get round the problem of having available films/programmes that have more than a PG rating? I don’t want a bland diet for 6 or 7 hours just because someone looks over my shoulder and sees something that offends them, although equally I would want protection for minors from unsuitable material. And there’s a big difference between porn and nudity. I have heard opinions about great works of art that end with covering Michaelangelo’s David’s lower half. It’s art not exploitation.

[SteveJohnsonIn0z]

Don’t many airlines censor them in some way? I groan when I see the warning before a movie that ‘the content has been modified’.

[IanFromHKG]

Some airlines – and I know this happens on BA – have a filter that they can apply on a selective basis. I was unaware of this until my daughter (who “commutes” to boarding school in the UK) told me that as a UM the choice of programmes available to her was restricted – although the crew will remove the restriction if asked. Doesn’t help with the issue of minors seeing inappropriate material being viewed by their neighbours, but it does show that they can (and in some cases do) take steps to restrict what minors can see

[BeckyBoop]

The blame lies directly with both the airline and the pax. First the airline should only show suitable content for all and if the pax does decide to watch something that may cause offence to others around him should either switch to watching something else or just man up and watch it. For the pervert in the OP, VK you should of told the purser to handle it he should of been arrested once the plane had landed for public indecensey.

[lloydah]

I’d like to know what a definitive answer for “appropriate for all” is Becky. The problem lies in the fact that there are a surprisingly wide range of opinions on this. Is it the lowest common denominator again? (personal sensitivity)

[IanFromHKG]

Becky, I have to disagree with you, I’m afraid – I have no desire to be stuck in a metal tube for hours on end with nothing but cartoons and Disney films to watch (well, apart from my own media, anyway!) on the basis that only in this way can the airline ensure suitability for all. As I said in my earlier post, modern IFE systems allow selective disabling of adult content, and BA crews at least (quite rightly) seem to use this for UM passengers and so are doing the right thing. For children traveling with adults, it is for the latter to exercise control, and I would remind you that even in the relatively enlightened UK system film censorship allows for differing degrees of parental guidance rather than across-the-board age restrictions. We frequently watch videos at home, and there are any number of times when our children have watched films with PG ratings higher than their age (we were watching a PG-13 with our 11-year-old only the other day – other parents might not show those films to their own 11-year-olds, but we make a sensible and considered decision which takes into consideration the reason for the rating, which of course might be violence, bad language or other factors rather than sexuality). This goes directly to lloydah’s point about where one draws the line

In the particular instance which generated the initial post, the passenger concerned was clearly viewing his own material – apparently on a laptop, but he could just as easily have brought a magazine with the same content. I don’t see how you can blame an airline for this, unless a crew member received a complaint from another passenger and failed to act on it (and even then I am not sure that is really a crew member’s responsibility)

[canucklad]

I would add that what is culturaly appropriate and acceptable for one airline, might not be for another…..and might also depend on the route?

Air Franve between Paris and Bangkok, might be totally different to Iran Air between Teheran and Kansas City ?

[MarcusUK]

Well, this was made by Virgin Atlantic some time ago. I cannot see most Airlines making a mock of themselves in such a saucy way!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0sXiIbn3-A

Only watch if you have a very good sense of humor…surprised many haven’t heard of it, though it was an extended ad for the US market!

[BeckyBoop]

Ian/Lloydah, anything before a 9pm watershed should surfice.

As for the perv in the OP regardess if he was watching porn on his laptop or reading a magazine. It was and is enough to cause offence to pax around him and make people feel uncomfortable. As a woman i am not sure i would want to continue to sit near this person even after he had turned it off.

VK where there children on board and in the cabin on the flight you were on?

[VintageKrug]

I think the children were stacked in the toilet, about four deep. That’s the normal procedure, isn’t it?

[IanFromHKG]

Sorry, Becky, that is just too limiting – most of the time on planes I want to catch up on films I have missed but really wanted to watch, and not many of those would fit within that criterion (we took the 11-year-old to watch Men In Black III the other day – I can’t imagine that being shown unedited before the watershed so it would have been banned by your standard – but had I missed it then, I would very much have liked to see it on a future flight). Perhaps we will have to agree to disagree…

Having said that, I do wholeheartedly agree with you that the passenger in question should not have done as he did and that being so obvious was offensive

[BeckyBoop]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/4382571/Woman-banned-from-US-jet-for-showing-too-much-cleavage.html

Sorry i know most of don’t approve of the sun. I know there was another thread to cover clothing but I cant find it. But even though an example of airlines blocking inappropriate content in flight.

[Tete_de_cuvee]

1978 classic film censored after over 20 TV showings….

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a387166/itv-censors-agatha-christies-death-on-the-nile-after-one-complaint.html

[IanFromHKG]

Double standards, Becky…

http://abcnews.go.com/US/man-wearing-lingerie-allowed-board-us-airways-flight/story?id=13906486

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