Vehicle entertainment system

A system for providing entertainment on a vehicle for passengers, the system comprising:

• a server disposed in the vehicle in which the server stores media files;
• smart monitors disposed in the vehicle which are configured to present media selections to passengers corresponding to the media files stored by the server and receive an input from a passenger for playing one of the selections, each smart monitor including local content storage storing a subset of the media files stored by the server;
• a network connecting the smart monitors and server;
• and
• program logic executed by each smart monitor which after a smart monitor receives an input from a passenger for one of the selections, performs tasks including:
• determining if a media file corresponding to the passenger's input is available from a first source, and if available, playing the media file from the first source;
• if the media file corresponding to the passenger's input is not available from the first source, determining if a media file corresponding to the input is available from a second source and if available, playing the media file from the second source;
• and
• if the media file corresponding to the passenger's input is not available from the second source, determining if a media file corresponding to the input is available from a third source and if available, playing the media file from the third source;
• wherein the network comprises a sub-network connecting to a first group of the smart monitors and another sub-network connecting to a second group of the smart monitors, and each smart monitor comprises program logic that will ignore a request to stream a media file to a smart monitor on a different sub-network.