Sunday night, Ustream will begin what it believes to be the first live music concert delivered to the iPad: Bon Jovi’s sold out show in Dallas, Texas.
The best way to enjoy a concert is live, of course, with movie theaters and computers or televisions (updated) coming in second and third, and the iPad coming in fourth, well ahead of the mobile phone, whose small screen relegates it to a distant fifth. But the iPad represents a new viewing option for the mostly-untapped live online music market with promise for the mobile viewing market, as well as in households where only one person might be a fan of a given band.
The device won’t make live online music (finally) happen singlehandedly. But large, portable screens will encourage the phenomenon of watching events live and online, because live shows are both a visual as well as an auditory medium. And as the above screenshot suggests, the interactive possibilities on an iPad or similar device outpace those of many other live music viewing platforms.
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