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  • Delta, HBO in alliance

    Delta, HBO in alliance

    MUMBAI: Bolstering its efforts to transform the in-flight travel experience and offer customers more choices, Delta Air Lines will become the first airline to offer HBO content and popular programs on worldwide flights.

    In a few months time, customers can view a 30-minute block of HBO content composed exclusively for Delta. Passengers can also view a new dedicated HBO channel, available on Delta’s seatback in-flight entertainment system, that will offer 40 to 50 hours of content.

    This includes programming, ranging from original series, movies, theatrical films, mini-series, TV movies, stand-up comedies and family programming. This will all be available on flights featuring Delta’s digital on-demand entertainment system. The HBO channel will be available to First class and international BusinessElite customers at no cost and to domestic Economy class customers for $5 per feature film or movie and $2 for all other television programmes.

    The half an hour programme blocks, composed exclusively for Delta, will feature material such as ‘behind-the-scenes’ footage from HBO original series and interviews with actors and directors from the network’s programming slate.

  • PlayStation 2 launches Disney’s ‘Kim Possible: What’s The Switch?’ in US

    PlayStation 2 launches Disney’s ‘Kim Possible: What’s The Switch?’ in US

    MUMBAI:Based on the Disney Channel show Kim Possible, yet another video game Kim Possible: What’s The Switch? has been developed for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system. This will be available in retail stores throughout the United States.

    “As the fifth video game starring Disney Channel favourite, Kim Possible, Disney’s Kim Possible: What’s The Switch? is an exciting opportunity for video game players to follow the crime-fighting heroine’s exploits on the living room TV,” said Buena Vista Games vice president marketing Craig Relyea. “Kim Possible is an extremely successful handheld video game franchise and this game looks to repeat that success on the console by bringing more fun and thrills to this engaging PlayStation 2 title.”

    In Disney’s Kim Possible: What’s the Switch?, players control Kim, Shego or Rufus the naked mole rat as they traverse the globe to defeat enemies. Published by Buena Vista Games and developed by A2M, Disney’s Kim Possible: What’s The Switch? is rated E for Everyone and is available for a suggested price of $29.99, states an official release.

    Features of Disney’s Kim Possible: What’s The Switch? include 11 missions as one of three characters (Kim Possible, Shego or Rufus); the ability to acquire and use six gadgets; and a two-player mode.

    The Kim Possible video game franchise has sold more than 1 million units to date worldwide since its debut in 2002. The first three Kim Possible games appeared exclusively for the Game Boy Advance. Disney’s Kim Possible: Kimmunicator, which was released in 2005, was the first Kim Possible title developed for the Nintendo DS, adds the release.

    Disney’s Kim Possible: Global Gemini for the Nintendo DS is scheduled for release in February 2007 throughout the United States.