Bill Boyer Jr.
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Bill Boyer Jr. was an entreprenurial minded baggage handler at Seattle based Alaska Airlines when, in response to information posted about in-flight entertainment challenges on the Alaska Airlines employee website, he conceived of a portable hard-disk based video on demand media player that he later named the "digEplayer."
On behalf of Aircraft Protective Systems (APS), a Washington corporation he founded earlier to commercialize other products he developed for the aircraft industry, he obtained initial financing from family, friends and Angel investors to fully develop and market his conceived product, which became the first to market self-contained portable video on demand (VOD) in-flight Entertainment (IFE) device.
Boyer's employer, Alaska Airlines, became first customer for the APS digEplayer. Based upon the apparent success of the Alaska Airlines digEplayer implementation, APS was able to sell the digEplayer to additional airlines.
In late 2003, APS was sold to Salt Lake City based aircraft parts distributor Wencor, which renamed Boyer's APS "digEcor."
In 2005, Boyer purchased Hawaii's Mokulele Airlines through Boyer Industries LLC. [1]
Articles
- http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/138884_airdvd10.html
- http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/funding.asp?company=APS
- http://www.airfax.com/airfax/features/viewstory.asp?filepath=feb2004%5Calaskadigeplayer.htm
- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DTI/is_8_32/ai_n6121821
- http://www.alaskasworld.com/newsroom/asnews/ASstories/AS_20030909_084339.asp
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