Does the airline pay the studio a flat fee for the movie or is there, in fact, a digital download pie in the sky?
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My daughter flew home from New York yesterday. I asked her what movie she watched on the plane.

"I didn't," she said.

"Why not?"

"It was eight dollars," she explained, "Virgin Domestic has put in individual screens at each seat and I didn't want to pay for it."

"Really, eight dollars, wow, at each seat?"

"Yeah. I watched an episode of a tv show - I tried to watch Ugly Betty but I got The Tutors. It was only two dollars."

When I told this story at dinner, someone at the table asked the operative question - who gets the eight dollars?

Does the airline pay the studio a flat fee for the movie or is there, in fact, a digital download pie in the sky?

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