Very clearly shows much more sensitive our eyes are to luminance rather than hue or saturation, which was the main observation that allowed for the high compression rate of JPEG

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dinkelberg 3 days ago | parent [-]

Are you speaking of chroma subsampling, or is there a property of the discrete cosine transform that makes it more effective on luma rather than chroma?

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ricardobeat 3 days ago | parent [-]

Probably chroma subsampling - storing color at lower resolution than luminance to take advantage of the aforementioned sensitivity difference. Since it’s stored at 1/4 resolution it can alone almost halve the file size.

Saying it’s the insight that led to JPEG seems wrong though, as DCT + quantization was (don’t quote me on this) the main technical breakthrough?

	▲	dinkelberg 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Chroma subsampling was developed for TV, long before JPEG.