Comparison - SD vs HD Martina McBride CMT Music Awards 2007-04-16

CMT Music Awards 2007 was premiered on both CMT and MHD simultaneously. CMT on my cable is in digital with resolution of 528x480 and bitrate around 3mbps. MHD on the other hand is in hi-def 1920x1080i and has bitrate around 17mbps. CMT chose not to crop the image, so on CMT channel the show is in letterbox which mean that the actual picture is now only using 528x360. However, it seems that video quality on MHD is not as good as 1920x1080i should be, my guess would be that camera is not capable of 1920x1080i. However, with CMT quality, it's hard not to prefer MHD "Anyway".

Comparison
Since MHD version is not that great to begin with and for the sake of CMT version, let's look at how the 2 versions look at 1280x720

Left : CMT : black bars from top and bottom are removed then image got blown up to 1280x720
Right : MHD : Image got reduced from original size 1920x1080 to 1280x720

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For original size screencaps of MHD click here