Lady Antebellum Live: On This Winter's Night Blu-ray Movie

Lady Antebellum Live: On This Winter's Night Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Lady Antebellum Live: On This Winter's Night is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Eagle Vision, an imprint of Eagle Rock Entertainment, with an AVC encoded 1080i transfer in 1.78:1. This is a great looking concert video that benefits from uniform, relatively "normal" looking stage lighting that doesn't bury the singers and instrumentalists in weird tones. While there is a blue cast from the background lighting that occasionally reflects on the flesh tones, but otherwise colors look accurate and are very nicely saturated. Some of the upstage instrumentalists, notably the string section, is lost in some pretty dusky looking shadows. The interlaced presentation doesn't really offer any significant hiccups like combing artifacts, and overall this is a very sharp and well detailed presentation.

Lady Antebellum Live: On This Winter's Night Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Both the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 mixes included on this Blu-ray sound great, offering excellent fidelity and providing ample support both for the core trio as well as the enlarged orchestral forces. The 5.1 does open things up rather dramatically, especially when the full string contingent comes into play, or with regard to some of the nicely nuanced guitar solos (as on "Silver Bells").

Lady Antebellum Live: On This Winter's Night Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

• Acoustic Performances (1080p) include Blue Christmas (2:57), The First Noel (3:08), Silent Night (Lord of My Life) (2:50), Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (4:11) and A Holly Jolly Christmas (2:02).


• A Holly Jolly Christmas Bonus Video (1080p; 2:18)


• 5 Things You Didn't Know About the Holly Jolly Christmas Video (1080p; 1:23)


• Behind the Scenes of A Holly Jolly Christmas (1080p; 2:06)


• The Making of On This Winter's Night (1080p; 3:42)

Lady Antebellum Live: On This Winter's Night Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

The members of Lady Antebellum seem like very genuine, nice people (there are some touching interstitials of them visiting a local children's hospital), and that naturalness comes through mostly loud and clear here (those spoken interludes are about the only forced thing). The music goes down easy, and this will certainly be a welcome holiday addition to those who like the band. Recommended.