The FCC's Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Systems. (Federal Communications Commission, to consider technical subgroup recommendations) (Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, November, 1993 by Scully, Sean

The FCC's Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Systems will meet Nov. 8 to officially consider the recommendations of its technical subgroup, adopted Oct. 21. The subgroup accepted plans by the Grand Alliance, a consortium of formerly rival HDTV developers, to use the MPEG2 compression standard and adopt the Dolby audio system, among other technical details.

The only remaining technical question left in the alliance's emerging specifications for the HDTV prototype is modulation, the method of sending the signal over the air. That question should be settled in Hanuary and testingf on the prototype should begin next fall.