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Which airline do you fly? I don't recall ever seeing any commercials on United, ANA, Singapore Airlines, Emirates, or Malaysia Airlines. Most of the systems have been fairly decent, although it was a massive disappointment last time I rode on ANA and found out they had replaced all the SNES games with generic mobile phone tier games.

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American runs promos for NBC shows during the "commercial breaks" of the NBC shows they run on domestic flights. Most of the time the promo is some sort of short interview or the cast member of the show saying "Hi, I'm so and so from NBC's such and such. Thanks for flying American" or something to that effect. I've never flown outside of north american so I'm not really sure how the in-flight entertainment is on anything longer than a 6 hour flight.

Domestic United flights with DirecTV show advertising when the screens aren't otherwise in use.

Delta definitely has them, even on trans Pacific flights. So does Aeroflot, but you can fast forward through them and anyways I can't Russian. I believe AirChina had them when I last flew them also.

I've seen ads on these screens while in taxi for departure on Air Canada Rouge (domestic) flights. Really annoying, I couldn't find a way to turn off the display.

You tune the brightness down until the screen turns off. Then they reboot and default back on. Repeat for leaving the gate, taxiing, post take-off, etc...

Emirates have tourism advertising as well as, funnily enough, advertising for the entertainment system your using right at that moment.

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