Similar in size to a portable DVD player, digEplayers are pre-programmed with movies, television shows, cartoons, videos and music, as well as airport maps, destination information, promotions and advertising.

The digEplayer was the brainchild of Tacoma, Washington, native and entrepreneur Bill Boyer Jr., who at the time was a baggage handler at SeaTac–based Alaska Airlines.

[1] In response to information posted about in-flight entertainment challenges on the Alaska Airlines employee website, Boyer conceived of a portable hard-disk–based audio video on demand media player that he later named the digEplayer.

[2][3] 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 $2.5 million initial financing from family and an Angel investor to fully develop and market his conceived product, which became the first self-contained portable AVOD in-flight entertainment (IFE) device.

Boyer and his investors sold all stock in APS to Utah-based Wencor, an international aircraft parts distributor, in October, 2003.

[17] In January 2019, digEcor officially acquired the Rockwell Collins Air Transport In Flight Entertainment (IFE) business to form Burrana.