Yes: Post production and CGI, necessary evils. Clipping is not a good thing. In fact, clipping anything (especially before compression) is really bad. This is one reason that consumer video ought to go to 10 bits - to allow a calibrated headroom in the overall system architecture. -----Original Message----- From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Doug McDonald Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 8:36 AM To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [opendtv] Re: "we'll forever be stuck with by going ATSC" Tom McMahon wrote: > Do you mean that you don't understand that legal values of Y Cb and Cr create > negative values of R, G and B? Yes, I understand that. But are there real world sources that create negative R, G, or B? Doug McDonald ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.