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Originally Posted by Asmodian
But Microsoft agrees with you:
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Originally Posted by MSDN
"YUV is not inherently any more compact than RGB. Unless the chroma is downsampled, a YUV pixel is the same size as an RGB pixel. Also, the conversion from RGB to YUV is not lossy. If there is no downsampling, a YUV pixel can be converted back to RGB with no loss of information."
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It depends on the context, because YUV to RGB can be lossy, since all possible RGB values can convert to YUV , but the reverse isn't true (they are non overlapping color models)
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=154731
http://software.intel.com/sites/prod...or_models.html
see "RGB Colors Cube in the YUV Color Space" diagram