For those that missed it, Jean-Michel Jarre streamed live his gig from the London O2 on Sunday night. A great reminder of the Glasgow gig the week before.
Quality of the video was not bad, I reckon the stylised graphics etc were intended to show it was more of a web event and not intended to be comparable quality to a DVD, but given that there was a streaming of around 2 hours and several thousand watching live, it was pretty smooth.
Sound quality was a different matter, and it was top notch. Reckon the sound was the priority with the streaming and it certainly worked.
Obviously it raises the issue of why other artists don't do the same kind of thing. It's probably easy enough to do these days, and could be a source of extra revenue for the touring musician if that's what they want to do, or a way of spreading their music a bit further than just in the concert hall.
Again, Jarre goes ahead of the rest and throws down the challenge, and at the same time continues to pioneer making his music available to those who want to hear it for free. The concert tickets were not cheap, and probably that put a few folks off going given the troubled economy we live in, but Jarre gives them the chance to catch a show. Good work.
The stream is still available to watch here;
Would it have been nice to watch it while listening on a Jarre Technologies aerosystem1? You bet it would have been!
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