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Originally Posted by vladtheimpaled
If I'm not mistaken converting to grayscale reduces bandwidth because of the number of channels it transmits. With a standard rgb image, you have three channels per pixel. Each of these channels has value. For a grayscale image however you only have one channel. Now two extra channels on one pixel would not do much in terms of performance but once you have a few hundred extra it can especially when you try to get that image to send almost instantaneously .
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Yes, that is what I am saying. You are assuming that whoever wrote the firmware chose the most logical option and decided to only transmit one channel instead of three. How do you know that instead of transmitting (255, 255, 255) they are transmitting (0) and not (0, 0, 0)? While the image may appear grey, they is still a probable chance that they are just transmitting information the same way, this time with more zeroes.