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The Grand Alliance(GA) was formed to define and construct a system for the delivery of HDTV using terrestrial broadcast channels. This system is composed of the best components from previously competing systems considered by the FCC. MPEG-2 syntax is used with novel encoding techniques to deliver a set of video scanning formats for a variety of applications. The purpose of each format is given from political/economic perspective as well as a technical perspective. This paper focuses on video compression technology and also describes the important features and concepts embodied in the GA system as compared to the previous digital HDTV systems.
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Petajan, E. (1997). The HDTV Grand Alliance System. In: Li, H.H., Sun, S., Derin, H. (eds) Video Data Compression for Multimedia Computing. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 378. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6239-9_5
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