Could HDTV's answer be a 'grand alliance'? (Federal Communications Commission recommends that four systems competing to be high definition TV standard work together; includes article about retesting schedule )

Broadcasting & Cable, March, 1993 by Sukow, Randall M.

Blue-ribbon committee suggests that four systems vying for acceptance as FCC transmission standard combine best features and work together Life would be simpler for the television industry and Washington regulators if they could have just one all-digital HDTV transmission system to consider rather than the current four, according to the FCC's Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service.

The advisory committee's "blue ribbon" committee strongly suggested such a "grand alliance" during its Washington meeting last Wednesday (Feb. 24). "The concept of the grand alliance would be to take the best elements of the different systems and combine them in order to give the advisory committee, the FCC and the nation, ultimately, the best possible HDTV...

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