NTSC is really bad on reds, and I believe that MPEG was meant to do video, thus
close to NTSC. PAL my also be bad.

Also, IIRC, the colors are broken down into Y Cr Cb. The Y is the brightness,
and the Cx components are the hue.

http://www.inforamp.net/~poynton/notes/colour_and_gamma/ColorFAQ.html


"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:

> No, I thought there was something about the compression algorithm that gives
> red "extra compression" -- thus making it uglier but with fewer kb's.
>
> Nieminen Juha wrote:
>
> > Greg M. Johnson <gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote:
> > : Do animations with a lot of red end up uglier looking but smaller in
> > : size than, say, a "blue-dominated" animation?
> >
> >   Isn't each color component handled separately?
> >
> >

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