I know video compression discards a lot of color info but saves the B&W info - found this [link|http://www.adobe.com/motion/events/pdfs/dvtour.pdf|PDF file] at Adobe, slide 15
    Color Perception
  • Human eye is much more sensitive to luminance than to color
  • Even "uncompressed" video only keeps half the color data
  • Most compression schemes work by discarding changes in color