Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 248 The Eyeing Opponents
"Even if we still have time, what about the second-generation Fangyuan Computer's ISA bus patent barrier? How do we adjust our ISA bus?" Liu Ogbrecht asked in a muffled voice.

“我们的ISA总线只支持8位就可以了，16位留到下一代产品再说，何况我们用的是只支持8位数据总线的Intel 8088，而不是支持16位数据总线的Intel 8086。”唐埃斯特利奇耐心地分析着。

"Everyone, the original project design goal is still too complicated, don't continue to be greedy for everything. Engineers who only focus on the technical level are sometimes asking for trouble. In my opinion, our personal computers only need to be enough to guarantee word processing. The smooth operation of software and spreadsheet software is enough. At present, the only one in the personal computer market that can do this perfectly is the Apple II, and our top priority is to enter this field as soon as possible." Tang Ai, who instilled his own ideas in everyone Stritch can only be described as eloquent.

"As for the other party's ISA bus patent barriers, I noticed that there is a shadow of our IBM technology, so let the company's lawyers immediately sue them for patent infringement and invalidation. This kind of thing has always been unclear, and we Still working according to the original plan." Speaking of this, Don Estridge smiled even wider, "Do you have any questions?"

"Sure enough, it's a western cowboy style. It's too rascal." After Liu Auglecht slandered, he shook his head and replied, "If that's the case, then it's all a matter of fine-tuning. Now It seems that the biggest factor that delays the progress of the project comes from the outside, especially the operating system. Microsoft's shitty QDOS, when the first version was just delivered, hundreds of bugs were found, and I don't know how to improve it now How is it?"

Hearing this complaint, Don Estridge rubbed his nose helplessly. When he took over, the various arrangements of the project had been basically finalized. Naturally, he could not modify without authorization, so as not to delay the progress. Moreover, Microsoft seemed to be a related party. Even the project advance payment of 100 million US dollars has been paid, what can I do with the small company of the other party.

"I will personally supervise this matter." Don Estridge nodded, and then started the usual cheering, "The headquarters has bought 20.00% of Intel's shares, which shows the importance attached to personal computers. There is no theoretical possibility that the Chess Project Group will be cancelled, and all we need to do is not relax, so that other departments will be surprised to see what we have achieved."

This is a kind of personal charm shown by Don Estridge. The members of the Chess Project quickly recovered from the setback after seeing the second-generation Fangyuan computer with their own eyes, and returned to their work .

Don Esterlich walked out of the office, closed his eyes, raised his head to feel the sunshine, and then took a long breath, thinking in his mind, "Tang Huan, you should receive a call from IBM's lawyer before Christmas. Xin, don’t blame me for being unscrupulous, you’re really pushing me too hard, if I don’t start this PC standard battle, then my chess plan will be ruined.”

……

U.S. West Coast.In a secluded coffee shop in Burbank, California, Warner boss Steve Ross sighed contentedly, and said to himself, "This side of Los Angeles is much warmer than New York."

There are also two heavyweights present here: one is Music Corporation of America - MCA, Sid Sheinberg, the president of Music Corporation of America, Sid Sheinberg, Universal Pictures currently belongs to MCA, so he is also in charge of this Hollywood company The other is Charles Bluhdorn, the owner of Gulf&Western Industries, that is, Charles Bluhdorn. Of course, he is also the current boss of Paramount.

It stands to reason that colleagues are enemies, and there is another saying that the king does not see the king, but the three of them just sat together against common sense.

Charles Bluedorn picked up his cup and took a sip of coffee, then impatiently said to Sid Schinberger who was looking at the documents repeatedly: "You have seen the documents you want, so there is no need to hesitate. "

Among the three, 54-year-old Charles Bluedorn is the oldest and the richest. In 1981 in the original time and space, he managed his Gulf West industry to the 500st place in the Fortune 61. Naturally, he was rich and powerful. , I don't like wasting time so needlessly.

If it weren't for the interesting suggestion of Steve Ross, Charles Bluedorn wouldn't even bother to make this trip.

Sid Hinberg put down the file unhurriedly, looked at the two old guys in front of him who were ten years older than him, and asked in a deep voice, "Is the profitability of video games really so strong?"

"Pretend to be confused." Charles Bluedorn showed displeasure, "There is no profit, why should I buy a Sega so early?"

Steve Ross smiled slightly, "Although Atari does not perform well in the home electronic game console market, including arcades and other businesses, its annual sales are hundreds of millions of dollars, which is no worse than that of movies."

"As you said, the video game industry is so profitable, so EA has already grown up." Sid Schinberg showed a look of fear on his face, "I heard that at the beginning of this year, the video game industry companies, they fought a lawsuit against each other, and EA won a big victory, which shows how difficult they are."

"Can it be the same? Universal's lawsuit over the copyright of "King Kong" has been going smoothly in the past few years. And now EA's "Donkey Kong" game is extremely popular, which happens to be a valuable target. EA's sales this year will definitely exceed one billion US dollars, if you can get the copyright fee through a lawsuit, at least a few percent, maybe you can enter the rising market of video games like us." Shi Tivros bewitched with glib tongue.

However, Sid Sheinberg was not that easy to fool. He shook his head, "I feel the risk is too great, and you didn't explain it clearly."

"Okay, let's get to the bottom of it." Steve Ross sighed, "We have definite information that EA is going to enter the arcade market, which is the current main profit point for Sega and Atari. Judging from the performance in the home video game console market, it can be described as menacing. If Universal can make a move, it can naturally suppress its market offensive momentum, and Sega and Atari will take this opportunity to research new products to deal with it.”

"Isn't Universal talking to Paramount about United International Films? It's easy to say." Charles Bludorn added lightly.

"What do you have to worry about?" Steve Ross was a little impatient. The three of them are big bosses. It is rare enough to get together for such a dark matter that cannot be put on the table. They still babbled and failed to come up with a definite result, which was simply a mockery of their identities, "Well, if you lose the case, I will pay the fees. If you win the case, Universal will make a lot of money."

Speaking of this, Steve Ross rolled his eyes and said in a low voice, "If you have other requirements, you might as well tell them directly in person."

"I need to go back and think about this matter carefully." Sid Hinberg didn't answer the question, and got up to leave.

Seeing this situation, Steve Ross shrugged his shoulders regretfully, and could only urge with earnest hope, "It's best to send out the lawyer's letter before Christmas. By then, due to the pressure of the peak sales season, EA's Response estimates will be relatively conservative.”

Sid Hinberg waved his hand noncommittally, and left.

……

In Tang Huan's view, in order to develop for a long time in this special small place of Xiangjiang, in addition to emphasizing talents, one must also understand one's own position, otherwise there will be endless troubles.

When you promote him, it turns out that he is like a famous host in the original time and space, who suddenly comes up with a scene full of running trains, and then he doesn't know how to wipe his ass.

As a well-known figure in the TV industry in Hong Kong and the first generation of senior TV personality in Hong Kong, the 35-year-old Selina Chow can be said to be the most suitable, the most correct, and even the only choice for the person in charge of the TV station.

So far, Shuyi Zhou's qualifications are already very deep.

As early as 1974, she served as TVB's program development director, promoted to program and production manager a year later, and served as assistant general manager from 1976 to 1977.

At the beginning of 1978, Jiayi TV recruited Zhou Liang Shuyi as the general manager with a high salary, but the "July Offensive" plan failed due to excessive spending, and immediately resigned with the "Six Gentlemen of Jiashi".

Now, Selina Chow and her husband run Rich Talent Production Co., Ltd., and serve as the chairman and chief executive officer, and have close contacts with Zheru Xiangjiang Company in the advertising business.

On behalf of Tang Huan, Hu Yinmeng sent an invitation to Zhou Liang Shuyi, and after promising the position of director and the lowest executive vice president, he was brought under his command. Now he came to meet with the new boss Tang Huan.

As for the current person in charge, the 54-year-old Huang Xizhao is a hero for the TV station.

Since he became the first Chinese general manager in 1976, he has managed Li TV very well. Although it is still suppressed by TVB as a whole, he can unexpectedly give opponents a counterattack in some areas, just like this year's "The Great Earth" "Favor" forced "Turn Around" to be cut in half.

However, Li's TV is always fighting TVB so tit for tat, endlessly, it's a bit of a dead end.

You know, Xiangjiang is such a big place, and TVB has formed "inertia ratings", and this status is basically unshakable.In the original time and space, the golden age of ATV was only a flash in the pan.

After all, the platform of the TV station can do a lot of articles, but Tang Huan really doesn't like it because he always sticks to entertainment programs and entangles with TVB endlessly.

Of course, Li TV is also helpless. How can it survive if it cannot attract advertisements?

But Tang Huan remembered that in the original time and space, TV viewers in Xiangjiang had a saying, to watch entertainment programs and tune to TVB, and watch news to ATV.

He believes that this is the characteristic of each person's survival.As for entertainment content, just leave it to a third party like DreamWorks.

It can be said that Boss Tang, who is not short of money, is very willing to make some innovations in this toy to test his ideas.

And Selina Chow, who has a degree from Hong Kong University, has traveled to the UK, and has tasted both success and failure in her career, is a good executor.

However, after Li's TV was successfully acquired, Zhou Mi, who was Tang Huan's representative, came into contact with Huang Xizhao, and the other party was very cooperative in attitude. Those who were conceited about their talent and learning would just leave. Tang Huan did not have to force him to stay. But he didn't want to kick this great hero away mercilessly.

Therefore, Tang Huan made a preliminary decision to let Huang Xizhao stay in the post, and as a minister of success, Zhou Liang Shuyi took the deputy position, responsible for the innovation of Tang's concept in the TV station.

If at that time, everyone really disagrees, then break up peacefully, and Zhou Liang Shuyi will naturally straighten her up, lest outsiders say that she is mean.

We are all acquaintances, so after meeting, there is no need to exchange too much pleasantries, Tang Huan directly talked about his thoughts, "I changed the name of Lai TV to Media Asia TV, just to hope that its influence will not be limited to Xiangjiang. Entertainment The level of content production is relatively advanced here in Xiangjiang, so there is no need to worry about it, but I want news to be a feature, but the level of Xiangjiang is relatively backward, and I can only go to the United States, Europe, and Japan to learn experience .”

"You are the big boss, as long as you don't care about money, we subordinates will do as you please." Zhou Liang Shuyi smiled slightly, "If this round of investigation is completed, it should be regarded as traveling around the world."

"I will definitely not be stingy with the cost of this kind of study." Tang Huan laughed loudly, "As long as your husband is not picky."

"That's not true." Zhou Liang Shuyi gently shook her head, "Although Li TV has now become Media Asia TV, the relationship with TVB in local competition in Hong Kong will not change. DreamWorks and TVB were just major players before. We have cooperated with each other on two high-quality TV series "Shanghai Beach" and "The King of Kings". Now that Mr. Tang has become the boss of a competitor of TVB, I wonder if the previous friendly relationship will still be maintained?"

"It would be nice not to be an enemy who glared face to face." Hu Yinmeng took over the quarrel, "When I was filming TV dramas before, I was so fussy about it, it was not fun, but now that there is a competitive relationship, it is definitely out of the question. However, we have reached an agreement before. An agreement to hire TVB artists, although the conditions are a bit harsh, is better than nothing. At that time, they certainly did not expect the situation today."

"There is such an episode in the middle?" Zhou Liang Shuyi showed surprise on her face.

"If you don't care about everything, how can you make a profit? Which commercial TV station is not like this? Your financial management ability needs to be further strengthened." Tang Huan glared at Hu Yinmeng and laughed

Later, he said seriously to Selina Chow: "In addition to creating its own characteristics, Media Asia TV must also calmly view the relationship with TVB. My advice is to compete in a friendly manner."

"It's really hypocritical to compete friendlyly." There were no outsiders present, and Hu Yinmeng directly expressed his attitude with blank eyes.

"Mr. Tang is now one of the bosses in Hollywood, so he naturally has the capital to jump out of the Xiangjiang circle and look at the development of a TV station from a high-level perspective." Zhou Liang Shuyi thought thoughtfully, "The competition between Media Asia TV and TVB is inevitable and unnecessary. To be honest, but in terms of their respective strengths, you go your way of entertainment, and I play my news card."

"It's basically like this." Tang Huan's eyes showed admiration, "After Media Asia TV left the production of TV dramas to DreamWorks, the entertainment content was outsourced to DreamWorks to provide. This separation of production and broadcasting mode, European and American countries are already exploring, and Media Asia TV does not have so much burden, just adopt it directly, as for the more refined needs of artists, it is still provided by DreamWorks in the form of labor export."

"Anyway, the boss of the two companies is Mr. Tang, and there will be no situation where the supply of entertainment content and artists is controlled by others." Selina Chow joked, "At the same time, Media Asia TV has streamlined its organization, and the financial aspect is also easier to control."

Tang Huan nodded slightly, "According to my opinion, Media Asia TV's institutional setup is almost the same as the news department, marketing operation department, program department, production department, engineering department, and administration department. The production of broadcast content covers current affairs, finance and economics. , local people’s livelihood and other news, as well as variety shows are enough, sports programs are also easy to solve, and most TV dramas participate in joint venture filming.”

At this point, Tang Huan's eyes fell on Hu Yinmeng, "If the TV series produced by DreamWorks are not well filmed, Media Asia TV can also kick it off and find another program supplier. With the prosperity of the economy, large sums of money Entering the entertainment industry, the market situation is already different, and the vertical operation method of all-in-one may not be the only choice.”

Tang Huan explained his thoughts, but he didn't say anything, that is, TV stations will have political stances that are recognized by the public, even if they are neutral, it is still a position, and there is a trend label of left or right.

When TV stations and entertainment content production are separated, we can try our best to avoid all kinds of unavoidable political taboos in the current stage.

After all, just a simple news broadcast has a great chance of involving the mainland and Treasure Island at the same time. How can the two parties not care about their respective titles?It is estimated that it will be difficult.

There are many such issues, and they cannot be resolved with a simple neutrality. The final result may be that both sides are unhappy.

In the original time and space, TVB was so glamorous and could not be offended. In fact, it was also very hard work. In many cases, it was done at the expense of artists, such as Wang Mingquan who has been hidden for many years.

(End of this chapter)