Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 282 Video Standards Controversy
"Excessive dependence on one industry is very risky." Mr. Xiao Jiang laughed.

"But this industry is a sunrise industry with unlimited prospects. As long as it has the first-mover advantage, at least for a few decades, the economic performance of Baodao can be eye-catching enough." Seeing Mr. Jiang's reserved attitude, Tang Huan intends to end this topic, so as not to waste saliva.

"Decades? Mr. Tang is very far-sighted." Mr. Xiao Jiang changed the subject and sighed meaningfully.

Tang Huan thought for a while, and then slowly said: "I do have a feeling that history is a circle that repeats itself, tossing and tossing, and everyone has to be pragmatic in the end to survive. The situation is different now, as long as Baodao can To develop into the largest production base of high-tech products in the world is not an insignificant passer-by, and there is no need to be so unfounded.”

Speaking of this, Tang Huan laughed and waved his hands, "It's a vulgar opinion, just talk about it casually."

"What you say makes sense." Mr. Jiang said thoughtfully, "Taking it as an individual, if you master a unique craft, it will be relatively easy to have enough food and clothing."

Tang Huan didn't continue to answer this question, because people's hearts are far away from each other, and they don't know what to do, and some topics can only be stopped in moderation.

"By the way, I heard that DreamWorks, an entertainment company in Xiangjiang, has absorbed a lot of talents from Baodao." Mr. Jiang, who was still chatting, joked, "Hu Yinmeng is the one you brought from Baodao. Let's go, her father still has a job."

Hearing this, Tang Huan sweated a little. It seems that no matter how high a person is, people still need gossip to spice up their lives.

"It is undeniable that the talents of Baodao have considerable advantages in terms of connecting with the world." Tang Huan nodded slightly, "Not only DreamWorks, but my Hollywood company has also established a joint venture company in Xiangjiang, and is also absorbing Chinese talents, including Chinese, are committed to producing competitive entertainment content and selling it to the United States."

"Treasure Island has always attached great importance to education investment." Mr. Xiao Jiang showed a smug expression, "I forgot that among Mr. Tang's many identities, there is also a Hollywood boss."

Mr. Xiao Jiang turned his gaze to Mr. Song, "With the convenience of Mr. Tang in Hollywood, there will definitely be more colorful guest candidates for the Golden Horse Awards in the future."

"Indeed." Mr. Song nodded repeatedly.

Seeing the two playing the double reed in unison, Tang Huan murmured in his heart, this is obviously a forced apportionment of the cold.

However, if there is a future, there will be a future. You must know that according to the historical development, in the next ten years, Baodao will have a very important proportion of consumption in the Chinese entertainment industry.

"Within the scope of my ability, it's a small matter." Tang Huan smiled generously, and then began to seek benefits from Mr. Jiang by insinuating.

Among the various intrigues, the time of a ball game is naturally very short.

The minor league team brought by Tang Huan won by a narrow margin, and the scene was very beautiful. This result was a happy one for everyone.

When Ms. Jiang's second son, Mr. Yu, came over with baseball equipment under his arm to say hello, Mr. Jiang was slightly startled, and then laughed loudly, his face full of joy.

Tang Huan glanced at Mr. Song, thinking that this arrangement inspired by the other party was really good for him, and he didn't know what kind of catalytic effect the family card would have.

……

After finishing the official article, Tang Huan's next job content quickly changed from fiction to reality, such as inspecting the related industry partners of Fangyuan Computer and Xiaobawang Game Console.

Acer has obtained the authorization of the first-generation Fangyuan computer, and finally has a stable product that can be sold.

For the purpose of unifying the software platform, Tang Huan is ready to hand over the market of the first-generation Fangyuan computer to the local companies in Taiwan, and let them sell it. After the user demand is further stimulated, it has to be transferred to the platform of the second-generation Fangyuan computer. Meet business needs.

In other words, although the first-generation Fangyuan computer still has a long life cycle, its status is more and more used for beginners and hands-on use, and it is used to get a preliminary understanding of Zheru's software family.

Acer is naturally very happy to get this benefit, but it doesn't know that its subordinate position has become more and more difficult to change since then.

Lianhua Electronics finally developed an Intel 8086-compatible CPU product, and based on this, it won an order for the second-generation Fangyuan computer.

But Tang Huan handed general manager Cao Xingcheng an evaluation report, and said bluntly: "It is also a compatible product from the second supplier, but in terms of execution efficiency and energy consumption, AMD can achieve 20.00% optimization. You're not even half as good as others. You've got a long way to go, man."

Compared with previous inspections, Tang Huan's attitude this time was much more serious.

Under Tang Huan's guidance, Baodao's high-tech industry has achieved remarkable results in its initial stage. As a result, it has also received various official praises and pursuits from the media. I believe some people will be complacent, or simply exaggerate. Make progress so that you can get a way up.

Tang Huan didn't bother to pay attention to these phenomena, but due to the huge pressure from the American market, he naturally had to pass it on to the downstream, beat the people in front of him, don't just follow the soup, he has to do a better job, or let alone enter The US market is gone, and even Japan will come to squeeze the living space.

And Lianhua Electronics, who was still immersed in the joy of success, could only bear it obediently after being splashed with cold water by Tang Huan. After all, the gap was clearly there.

However, UMC cannot say that it has no grievances. You must know that AMD has been in the field of producing compatible products, but it has been operating for many years and already has a lot of foundation.

In every chip including CPU, there are a large number of circuit gates, which can be expressed theoretically by Boolean mathematical logic.

As a compatible manufacturer standing on the shoulders of predecessors to improve, the content of optimization includes streamlining circuit gates.

UMC is like a student in the first year of junior high school, who can only do simple questions such as a*c+b*c=(a+b)*c when combining similar items in algebra; It's no problem.

Under the premise that there is such an obvious gap between the two parties, it is already good to be able to get the correct answer to the question.

Therefore, Lianhua Electronics, which didn't get much praise from Tang Huan, was quite wronged.

In the production of peripheral equipment such as display components, host power supplies, etc., the Guo brothers' Hon Hai performed very well. Tang Huan nodded secretly, and it really has the potential of a large foundry.

In short, during this inspection, Tang Huan basically beat all the industrial partners gathered around him, allowing them to share the huge competitive pressure from the external market, so as to further enhance the centripetal force.

However, when it was time to give a speech at the university, Tang Huan immediately put on a smiling face that made people feel refreshed, and exchanged experiences and insights with the students.

In terms of university education, Formosa has indeed cultivated a group of solid science and engineering talents.

In the original time and space, this group of Chinese seemed to have become a small technical backbone force in Silicon Valley. Although they were not as well-known as Yahoo Yang Zhiyuan, they were equally successful.

Tang Huan was talking and laughing happily, and he was also looking for someone with a little reputation in his impression.

Apart from the admiration for Tang Huan's success, the campus students' welcome to Tang Huan does not exclude the factor of interest.

Because Boss Tang actually launched a plan to subsidize study abroad in the United States, and not only those with excellent academic performance are expected to get this quota, but also those with specialties in sports, art, etc. are also included in the scope of inspection.

……

In the evening, Weng Jingjing, who has always been an invisible follower, asked with a smile: "Can a big man also be a good actor? For example, these days, I found that your image changes very frequently, and your clothes are seamless."

"Are you mocking me?" Tang Huan patted Weng Jingjing with a smile. Compared with Guan Zhilin's cuteness, the little witch in front of him was also very lovable.

"How could it be? I just think you are so good, you can master whatever you do." Weng Jingjing couldn't wait to express her admiration.

"I asked someone to take you to play, why don't you go?" Tang Huan asked happily.

"It's boring, it's better to stay by your side for fun." Weng Jingjing replied without thinking.

Facing the girl's clear eyes of worship, Tang Huan's desire to conquer began to flood again.

……

The trip to Treasure Island was a joy for all, sweeping away the haze caused by Deng Lijun's labor performance.

Seeing that the matter was almost handled, Tang Huan hurriedly set off for Japan. Apart from inspecting as usual, he mainly wanted to find some good things.

After Tang Huan took over MGM, a money-losing product, due to the long-standing malpractice, it would be difficult to rectify it for a while.

After witnessing MGM's disastrous situation with his own eyes, Tang Huan even began to wonder whether Kirk Kerkorian, like in the original time and space, waited for the other party to be overwhelmed, and then bought MGM back. .

Although with the financial support of the Kuwaiti royal family, MGM can be adjusted slowly, but this does not show Tang Huan's unique ability. thought.

There is no doubt that the sooner the results are released, the better for Tang Huan.

Ever since, Tang Huan turned his brains to MGM's huge film library.

In the original time and space, the reason why Ted Turner bought MGM was for this purpose, intending to use its film library to enrich the broadcast content of Turner Broadcasting Company.

In areas with a mature business environment like North America, the awareness of copyright protection has already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Of course, in the specific operation process, it also depends on whether the stakeholders can afford the protection costs in terms of money, time, etc.

But in the television industry, which is already considered a veteran industry, everyone is still very disciplined.

MGM can conduct licensing contacts and negotiations in this field.

However, both of them are shrewd businessmen, and the other party may not be willing to invest too much money in this kind of unreasonable business.

Ted Turner also spends so much money because he has his own TV network.

Tang Huan wanted to imitate Ted Turner, but he only had two independent TV stations in Xiangjiang and Oakland, so he was temporarily unable to further expand in this field.

In view of this, Tang Huan turned his attention to the wider mass consumer market, which is where the real money comes out.

In the original time and space in 1983, Videocassette Recorder—Video recorder or VCR has become a common consumer product in American families, and the various economic benefits brought about by it are considerable.

Its deep-rooted position in the U.S. market could not be shaken even by VCD, which was all the rage in the 1990s. It was not until the DVD era that it began to loosen its hold, and then entered the high-definition video era.

From video recorders, VCDs, DVDs to Blu-rays, no matter what kind of product, there are three logical elements, namely player, content carrier, and storage format. Taken together, it is the so-called video standard.

Players—regardless of the actual home appliance or the software in the computer, the content carrier—whether it is a video tape, CD or hard disk file, users can have a clear look and feel.

In comparison, the format protocol that determines how content is stored clearly belongs to the role of passers-by.

In terms of competition for video standards, various manufacturers have always been swords and swords. The winners are princes and losers are not enough to describe this kind of tragedy.

Following DVD's undisturbed dominance of the world, the high-definition era is the two camps of Blu-ray Disc - Blu-ray and High Definition DVD - HD DVD.

The Blu-ray side is the Blu-ray Disc Association formed by companies such as Sony and Panasonic; the HD DVD side is the HD DVD Promotion Group formed by companies such as Toshiba, NEC, and Sanyo Electric—the HD DVD Promotion Association.

The two have many similarities in terms of technology. The obvious difference is that the single-sided single-layer capacity of Blu-ray Disc is 25GB, and the single-sided double-layer capacity is 50GB; while the single-sided single-layer capacity of HD DVD is 15GB, and single-sided double-layer capacity is 30GB. The capacity is [-]GB.

Therefore, who can win the two standards mainly depends on which side's supporters are strong.

Sony in the Blu-ray camp directly has its own game console PlayStation 3 and Hollywood's Columbia to help out.

The HD DVD camp has been supported by Microsoft's home game console Xbox 360, and Hollywood's Universal has also joined in.

Of course, there are also hedgers, such as HP, Paramount and so on.

This standard war, which burns money all the time, started in 2002 until 2008 when Toshiba announced its decision to terminate the development of HD DVD players and recorders, and to stop the production of HD DVD players for PC/games , and ended its HD DVD business.

Regardless of the two standard camps with Japanese companies as the protagonists, fighting to the death and exciting, the irony is that what really determines their fate is not entirely on their own, but American companies, such as Hollywood, and even The seemingly unrelated retail giant Walmart.

At the same time, it is said that the pornographic film industry, which favors the large-capacity storage capacity of Blu-ray, also played a decisive role, but this factor, like its driving the development of broadband Internet demand, cannot be discussed on the bright side.

Sony, which completely won the battle for high-definition video standards, stumbled in the battle for video recorder standards in the 20s more than 1980 years ago.

And Tang Huan came to Japan this time, so he naturally knew which standard to choose in order to make money without losing money.

From a technical point of view, among the player, content carrier, and storage format, the player operates the content carrier, and the content carrier serves the storage format.

Therefore, video recorders have generally progressed along with the history of video tapes, while the disputes over storage formats that have been fighting against each other have been around for a long time.

The development of the videotape system was motivated by the popularity of television in the United States in the earlier period.

Due to the different time zones between the eastern and western parts of the United States, the American TV industry needs to find a device to record the TV programs on the east coast, and then broadcast them when the programs are broadcast in the west.

Taking this as an opportunity, many companies such as RCA, BCE and Ampex have participated in the development work.

Founded in 1944, Ampex, an American storage equipment manufacturer, can be regarded as one of the important pioneers in this industry. It produced the first practical audio and video tapes in the United States.

After making several experimental units, Ampex launched the first market-successful video tape recorder in 1956.

This product uses a tape of two inches or 5.1 centimeters, known as 2' Quadruplex format, the prefix "Quad" comes from the 4 heads it uses, this recording method is also called Transverse Recording - horizontal recording .

It records at 14400 RPM for NTSC and 15000 RPM for PAL.A standard videotape is 4800 feet long and can record an hour of television.

The 2' Quadruplex VCR became the world's first practical TV recorder, but at a price of $50000, only the TV networks and the largest private stations could afford it.

In 1959, Japanese companies entered this field. Toshiba developed a new tape recording method, Helical Scan—helical scanning, which is different from Quadruplex, which can be implemented in Reel-to-Reel—roll-to-roll tape. This form It is basically the now popular, well-known dual-head tape structure.

(End of this chapter)