NOTES FOR DISCOBOLUS GAME
  1. Allan E. Bell, "Next-Generation Compact Discs", at Scientific American, July 1996, p. 28.
  2. Johnnie L. Roberts, "The Disc Wars", at Newsweek, August 26, 1998, p. 39.
  3. The history of this struggle around the standards was taken from Allan E. Bell, "One Format for All", Scientific American, July 1996, p. 30.
  4. Allan E. Bell, "One Format for All", Scientific American, July 1996, p. 30.
  5. Loc. Cit.
  6. Johnnie L. Roberts. Op. Cit., p. 39.
  7. Originally, there were five regions. Johnnie L. Roberts. Op. Cit., p. 39. The last region to be included was China, probably because Chinese are famous as technology pirates.
  8. http://www.dvdvideogroup.com/, DVD Video Group is conformed by the companies that promote the DVD and controls the patent for DVD.
  9. In strict sense, there is not an official difference between generations. Every system has its differences. For example, some first generation DVD players are compatible with CD and CD-RW (rewritable) others are not. Another difference is that some first generation are not allowed to decompress MPEG-2 format. See http://www.videodiscovery.com/vdyweb/dvd/dvdfaq.html.
  10. In http://www.videodiscovery.com/vdyweb/dvd/dvdfaq.html is said that the compatibility is difficult because video and PC use different decompression codes.
  11. Lew Irwin, "Converging point", at Los Angeles Times, November 28, 1997. Taken from http://www.latimes.com/.
  12. The MP-EG1A is one of this cameras, and its maker is Hitachi, first company to sell a DVD-RAM.
  13. Garrett Hardin. "La tragedia de los espacios colectivos", at Herman E. Daly, Economía, ecología, ética, pp. 111-124. Originally published as "The Tragedy of Commons", at Science, vol. 162, December, 1968, pp. 1245-1248.