Ustream, the internet’s leading streaming website is currently streaming the 4/11/10 Bon Jovi concert straight from the American Airlines Center in Dallas TX to iPad owners nation-wide. Although the company bases much of it’s business plan on streaming live concerts for free, the release of the iPad earlier this month provided Ustream with the first high quality, portable platform to broadcast their streams. The event would be unimportant for Bon-Jovi-haters like myself if it were not for the implications of streaming concerts directly to people’s portable devices. The problem with live concert streaming up to this point has been that as accessibility of content online increases, people are less willing to view content at a scheduled time. An example of this trend is how TV programs are being viewed more and more online on websites like Hulu. This is because the viewer has control over the time and place of viewing, unlike traditional TV, so it is more convenient for them. Watching concerts live online is similar to traditional TV as in one must tune in at a specific time. But with the iPad, and presumably other portable tablets, one can stream a concert on-the-go: which makes streaming concerts more accessible. Who knows if this will become a trend, or maybe no one cares. So in closing, I hate Bon Jovi. Here’s a video of some good music…
So this is about video streaming? I can wait to see Wilco doing that! They are such advocates for streaming.
ReplyDeleteHahahahaha. I love this post! Once I saw the fact that somebody was streaming a concert, but of Bon Jovi, I like everyone else with ears simultaneously vomited a little bit and wondered if they would be doing this for anyone else! And what a great song off of a great album, you know? Yankee Hotel Foxtrot rocks my world, especially "Radio Cure"...I mean, this looks like the beginning to something huge in the music industry. If people can experience concerts in almost every way as real as if they were actually there and had paid the exorbitant sum to get there (at least in Bon Jovi's case), trends in the industry have shown that people will go for for the more portable, cheaper option out there when given the opportunity to choose. So, I hope this puts the right bands onto something, and I can start seeing some Punch Brothers or Neon Indian sometime soon on my computer (who buys an Ipad?).
ReplyDeleteNooo! I love Bon Jovi! : (
ReplyDeleteBut this totally just gives into the theory that before long, the world will be able to do everything on small portable devices such as the cell phone or iPad and that all our media experiences (tv, radio, books, internet, etc.) will be accessible for viewing from a 4 inch screen!
I wonder if I-clips will jump onto this? By the way, ustream also houses fan made streams. Fans at shows will send the concert to u-stream via their iPhone, and fans at home will tune into ustream. It's pretty cool. Now fans that couldn't get tickets to the show and are standing outside will be able to enjoy the concert from the comfort of their own iPad, if anyone buys it, that is.
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