Definitions for "Grand Alliance"
A consortium of container lines. Member lines include Hapag-Lloyd Container Line, Malaysia International Shipping Corporation, Nippon Yusen Kaisha and Orient Overseas Container Line.
U.S. consortium, formed in 1993, to produce "the best of the best" DTV transmission system from among the initially proposed separate systems. Participants were: AT&T, General Instrument Corp., MIT, Philips Consumer Electronics, David Sarnoff Research Center, Thomson Consumer Electronics, and Zenith Electronics Corp. The group eventually proposed the current ATSC digital standard.
United States consortium of broadcasters, manufacturers and engineers to draft an agreed US standard for digital HDTV (High Definition Television).