During its conference at CES 2025, the airline Delta announced that YouTube Premium would arrive in the screens of its airplane seats. Screens which will soon be QLED, offering 4K HDR.
YouTube Premium on a Plane Coming in 2026
Delta has partnered with YouTube to benefit from the platform and its videos without advertising. With this comes access to YouTube Music, for streaming music. It’s about offering YouTube Premium on board “ of most flights », specifies the American company.
The service will appear via the seats of new planes from 2026. These will be seats including Delta Sync, a cloud services system. Clearly, the seat screens do not directly operate YouTube or other applications. Intermediate servers will be in the loop.
To go further on SVoD during flights: QLED 4K HDR screens
These new screens will go upmarket: they will switch to QLED. This panel technology delivers infinite contrast, but with better colors and brightness than OLED. These screens will be 4K HDR, meaning they will offer good definition as well as better lit dark and light areas.
This will come with Bluetooth: you can connect your headset or earphones wirelessly to your screen. This is useful if you don’t want to use the accessories provided by the airline. Regarding the films and series available, Delta plans to add a personalized recommendation system in the future. The French will be able to benefit from it since Delta has flights to and from Paris (Charles de Gaulle and Orly).
Source: www.numerama.com
