Dale Kelly wrote: > A darker video requires more transmitter power than does a > brighter video. (which you know but a few others on this list > may not) Must be one of those initially unexpected differences between RGB and Y Pb Pr, or YUV, color. If it's one way in RGB, it's the opposite in YPbPr. Without doing the math, if Y = 0, then the U and V cannot be zero, right? Similarly, pure green takes up only one component of RGB, but it requires all three components of Y Pb Pr. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.