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Still a YUV image should be much more closely representative of a 24 bit image than a 16 bit image regardless of whether you can represent the full luminance or chrominance values possible in direct RGB output. >> On top of that, the dynamic range is limited. << Maybe relative to what the renderer is able to output in RGB terms, which may have been your point all along, but not relative to the video medium as a whole, where digital generally exceeds source, which is typically Beta Sp. Anyway, it wasn't my intent to get into a debate about it. My main concern was that the RGB to YUV calculations were as faithful as possible in conformance with CCIR 601. The 16 bit analogy, as we conventionally think of 16 bit RLE is not a relevant comparison as a YUV file is a matrix scheme with filter characteristics, which purports to achieve the same result as what we conventionally think of as a 24 bit image; one with a potential for 16 millions colors.