Moses Avalon is one of the nation’s leading music-business consultants and artists’-rights advocates and is the author of a top-selling music business reference, Confessions of a Record Producer. More of his articles can be found at www.mosesavalon.com.
You want the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in one sentence? 3-D TVs, every iPad accessory you can think of, and competing tablet computers. There, I just saved you a trip to Vegas.
Think you’ll never want a 3-D TV or an iPad? You’re wrong; trust me on this. Sony, LG, and a few other minor players are going to make you want 3-D so bad you’ll buy personalized eyewear just for the experience. And as far as juice for the iPadophiles — I cover that after this next thing.
What’s above is for the general public. But for us in the music space, I saw just one significant piece of new technology. Granted, I only got to cover 200,000 of the 1,000,000-square-foot show, so I’m sure I missed a few cool production gizmos. But I’m not impressed anymore by all the studio toys. Show me a new way to sell millions of records, and then I’ll get a woody.
And one exhibit did: HD Radio.