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Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010

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Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010
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The Crossroads Guitar Festival hosted by Eric Clapton, in Chicago, features performances by a host of guitar legends.
Crossroads 2010 arrives on Blu-ray with an AVC encoded image in full 1080p and a 1.78:1 aspect ratio, and the results are for the most part spectacular. For the most part. There are some annoying artifacts that crop up occasionally in this presentation. In the early framing sequence following a guitarist around various cityscapes of Chicago, you'll notice pretty bad shimmer on a brick-lined alleyway. Later, in the concert itself, there's an odd sort of mirror thing up above the singers' heads which is evidently reflecting a nearby skyscraper, but the distortion on the reflection dissolves occasionally into moire. If you can get past that (and frankly it's pretty easy to), this is a wonderfully clear and sharp presentation that has abundant fine detail. In fact, is that an errant bug caught in a ZZ Top beard? Colors are really well saturated and look pretty much spot on, even under some fairly poor lighting choices, like a ubiquitous and kind of ugly green gel used in the stage lighting. Close-ups are often spectacularly sharp, where every nuance of fingering can be made out easily and more subtle detail like fine blonde arm hair is completely visible. The concert lasts several hours, changing from bright daylight to moonlight, and the Blu-ray handles the changing light tones beautifully. In fact, contrast and black levels are both superb throughout this multi-hour extravaganza.

Video
Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.78:1

Audio
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English: LPCM 2.0

Subtitles
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian

Discs
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (2 BDs)

Playback
Region A, B (C untested)