Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 376 Personal Computers and Digital Music

Tang Huan not only "created" music for the Fisher Salvage Company's search for the Titanic as an incentive, but also asked D2 Company to produce computer animation.

Therefore, Fisher Salvage's starting position is not smaller than that of other peers with the same purpose.

Moreover, these two novel forms of blessings can be described as full of literary style, which makes people more impressed by Fisher Salvage Company.

Therefore, in the free and open-minded space of the Internet, it has become the best prank object on April Fool's Day, and it has spread to reality at an unexpected speed and breadth. Many information audiences are willing to be tricked once .

The White House, who had played BBS very well, also joked: "If the Fisher Salvage Company really found the Titanic, no one will believe it anymore."

Amidst the turmoil, Deng Lijun's single, the popular "My Heart Will Go On", entered the US Billboard Hot [-] without knowing it.

Unexpectedly, Tang Huan, who had such a strong influence on the BBS, just laughed knowingly about this episode of April Fool's Day joke.

Under his instructions, the Fisher Salvage Company plans to go to the sinking area of ​​the Titanic in the North Atlantic three times this year. The first time now is of a pathfinding nature, and the search for the target is not the main focus.

Therefore, as soon as Tang Huan saw the news headline, he quickly judged naturally that someone had made up a joke to amuse everyone.

But the facts have proved that the goddess of luck really favors Tang Huan's treasure hunting fleet. More than a week after the April Fool's Day on April [-]st, the Fisher Salvage Company actually found several treasures sunken at sea level. The wreckage of the Titanic thousands of meters below.

Then, an interesting scene appeared. After this news was published concisely, people's first reaction was, why are you still joking?

I can only say that the April Fool's Day scene was too realistic.As a result, I fell into the strange circle represented by the story "The Boy Who Cried Wolf".

But it was precisely because of such a huge contrast that when a cable news network reporter following the fleet briefly reported live on TV via satellite phone, it caused a real sensation.

In particular, after the photos taken by the underwater camera were sent back via satellite, people's doubts were completely dispelled.

Coincidentally, the time when the Fisher Salvage Company discovered the Titanic almost coincided with the anniversary of the sinking of this legendary ship.In this way, the dramatic color becomes more and more intense.

CNN became the number one winner in this major news event, and the Fisher Salvage Company's actions were recorded one by one by its accompanying reporters, thus mastering a large amount of first-hand on-site information.

After the information was disclosed in batches, the CNN's limelight was the same for a while, and even the three major traditional TV news networks had to avoid the front for the time being.

The music created for the Fisher Salvage Company's Titanic search has also gained attention, and "My Heart Will Go On" has made small but steady progress on the Billboard Hot [-].

People are no longer satisfied with listening to these works only on cable news, but because of the limited number of records, many music lovers have to leave disappointed. .

In the past two years, Polygram, which has been operating poorly in the United States and has lost more than 2 million U.S. dollars, can no longer sit still after seeing this market situation. I quickly contact Deng Lijun, hoping that she can take advantage of the situation to make a photo with "My Heart Will Go On" " is an English song album with the title track.

In fact, Deng Lijun is very busy at this stage, and Gain has completed the production of "A Touch of Love", which has condensed her great efforts.

In addition to the 12 songs in the original time and space, there is also a Chinese style series including "Blue and White Porcelain", "Rolling Bead Curtain" and so on.

But it is precisely this second album that is a little troublesome in terms of record packaging and promotion, because "Chinese style" is a sensitive word.

Shao Yinyin's experience can illustrate this problem. She took over the filming of "New Official_I Want" in 1977, and participated in the Cannes Film Festival with the crew, and appeared on the red carpet in a pink bellyband. The Associated Press called it "China Doll ", which is translated into the corresponding Chinese is "Chinese doll".

As a result, the Baodao authorities were very dissatisfied with this, thinking that it should be a "Chinese_Republic of China baby", so they blocked Shao Yinyin as a mainland spy.

Because Baodao is the largest market for Hong Kong movies, after Shao Yinyin was banned, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest did not dare to ask her to make movies again.

In order to make ends meet, Shao Yinyin can only go to the stage, sing, and film TV series.

Shao Yinyin can be seen in the series of Li TV, as well as the current DreamWorks TV series. For example, last year's popular youth idol drama "Sweet Twenty-Four Flavors", she played a big The Villain - A mean female boss.

Moreover, the roles that Shao Yinyin can accept now are basically these disgusting villains.

This shows how much Shao Yinyin's career has been affected.

Deng Lijun is a star that Baodao attaches great importance to. Naturally, it is even more necessary to consider these seemingly incredible political taboos.

Of course, Deng Lijun, who met Tang Huan in this time and space, is definitely no longer afraid of being banned. With the strong financial backing provided by Zheru shares, she is very detached. At worst, she can go back and concentrate on being with her children and live a leisurely life.

But it is precisely because Tang Huan's backing is so superior that Deng Lijun's careerism has become stronger and stronger. She hopes to keep her place in the music world, so she has to be careful to avoid bad luck.

The result of the final discussion is that, don’t try to create any concept of “Chinese style”, just take it as a further artistic attempt after the first modern music style interpretation of Tang poetry and Song poetry.

If you have to give it the title of Feng, then call it "Tang Feng". Anyway, Tang Huan has contributed a lot behind the scenes.

Deng Lijun still said with a smile on the phone: "This is a reward for your hard work."

Tang Huan accepted it calmly. The Chinese character encoding he promoted was already vaguely called "Tang Code". Now there are multiple "Tang Styles", which is normal.

It is not difficult to imagine that, as Deng Lijun's closest man and fan, the LP version and digital CD version of "A Touch of Quiet Love" were sent to him as soon as possible, for a sneak peek.

Tang Huan's deliberate efforts allowed Deng Lijun to create a record, that is, "A Touch of Love" became the first commercially released CD record.

In addition, during the successful search of the Titanic by the Fisher Salvage Company, the popularity of "My Heart Will Go On" has become more and more popular. Deng Lijun's popularity in the United States has gone out of the Chinese community.

Deng Lijun's comeback after the fake passport turmoil has been successfully completed, and she is currently advancing towards a new career height.

"The verbal rewards are a little empty, so let's get some practical ones and help me sell new products." Tang Huan sent out an invitation.

He had been receiving help from Tang Huan, and now he could help his man in turn. Deng Lijun was so excited that he agreed, and then he remembered to ask what product it was.

"Of course it's related to music. It's the CD player and drive provided for the computer." Tang Huan explained carefully.

For Epson's first launch of the CD player, Sony and Philips are definitely a big surprise and a big surprise. You must know that this technology was first developed and researched by the two of them, and Tang Huan was just a third party who joined in the middle.

Logically speaking, Sony and Philips should be the unyielding leaders, but this practice failed in front of Tang Huan.

Sony and Philips, who were worried about the market prospects, quickly negotiated frequently with Epson, "Can you not rush to release new products, the three of us have the same interests, wait for two or three months, and act in unison."

Hideaki Yaskawa, who had received Tang Huan's instruction "don't scare these two collaborators", explained patiently, "We are launching a new product in order to cooperate with the launch, and the purpose is to attract more interested buyers. Investors, and these new products are all targeting computers."

In order to express it appropriately, Yaskawa Hideaki used a second-generation Fangyuan computer equipped with a CD drive as an example, and continued: "This CD drive, in addition to being able to read the CD-ROM that we define as a service for computer data access, , it can also play music CDs, but it is limited to this. The function is very single and cannot be compared with professional CD players. Mr. Tang specifically emphasized that the reason for this is to achieve an additional goal through this product, that is, to play music Introducing the personal computer.”

In this way, Philips and Sony, who got the guarantee, put their hearts in their stomachs.

What Tang Huan asked Deng Lijun to speak for is this kind of two-in-one computer-specific CD drive that can read CD-ROMs and play music CDs.

"I've already thought about it. Each [-]-in-[-] CD drive will be given an album of "A Touch of Love". I want to make your first digital CD music album a symbol of digital music entering personal computers." Tang Huan Looking forward boldly.

In Tang Huan's view, the realization of multimedia applications on personal computers must be realized step by step based on the development of hardware in this era, and digital music is undoubtedly the vanguard.

Putting this link in a priority position can also cooperate with the plan to praise Deng Lijun and push her to the world stage, which is the best of both worlds.

In this way, Deng Lijun and Tang Huan met in Tokyo, Japan, and attended the new product launch conference together.

This [-]-in-[-] CD drive has too many firsts and bests to make a gimmick.

For example, the storage capacity of CD-ROM disks is as high as [-] to [-] megabytes, which is comparable to the current top enterprise application-level hard drives.

Compatibility with music CDs brought digital music to personal computers for the first time.

The attached first commercially released CD "A Touch of Love" not only fully demonstrates the technical advantages of digital music, but also shows distinctive oriental culture.

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Such a product launch event will also be held in the United States, and Deng Lijun also needs to attend.

The new products with epoch-making significance really helped Epson to a great extent to attract more investors' interest.

When its stock was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, it soared from the issue price of 2400 yen to 4000 yen in just one morning.

It has to be said that Epson dot matrix printers dominated the Japanese market with 80.00% share last year, which is really eye-catching.

Although the market share has declined this year, it is still a normal market adjustment, which does not mean that Epson has regressed.

More importantly, although Epson's competitors followed suit very quickly, Epson's dot matrix printer, which has a Chinese character library, has not yet met a challenger with sufficient qualifications.

Coupled with the unlimited prospects of the two-in-one CD drive, the Japanese who are not short of money are more fond of Epson.

The picture of Tang Huan and his subordinates celebrating with champagne was quickly sent back to Xiangjiang. For those who initially exchanged Landmark and Jardine shares for Epson technology shares, it was like a pie falling from the sky, and they were immediately delighted Crazy.

You must know that the fatigue of the Xiangjiang real estate industry is already evident, and it has started to fall from the clouds to the ground flickeringly.

It is really a good deal to exchange real estate shares with bleak prospects for technology stocks with promising prospects.

In this regard, Qinhe directly launched the least creative but most effective new advertisement, "There are still two technology stocks ready to go, the opportunity is not to be missed, and the loss will never come again. Friends who are still hesitating and waiting, hurry up .”

These words were simply a reminder for Jardine and Landmark. Larger retail investors in the stock market, including some institutions, began to actively contact Qinhe.

Since Zhou Mi swaggered into the board of directors of Hong Kong Land, any cash-out of assets was basically aborted, and he came for this goal.

Niu Bijian began to accept his fate, and now his biggest goal is to untie the chain ship structure between Jardine and Hongkong as soon as possible, so as not to change owners as Hongkong is dragged down by the real estate recession, and even Jardine cannot escape Tang Huan's clutches.

Originally, HSBC planned to rely on its identity as a creditor to secretly take away 20.00% of Jardine shares held by Hongkong Land, but was discovered by the team brought by Zhou Mi
"I've said it a long time ago, if you move the structure of the chain ship, it will only collapse faster." Zhou Mi, who had already caught the thief and seized the stolen goods, taunted Niu Bijian unceremoniously.

"The fact that you are so tight can no longer be explained by the hatred between each other." Niubijian, whose eyes were sunken and bloodshot, asked to himself.

"It's no longer necessary to discuss this matter now. Anyway, the outside world has confirmed that Jardine and Landmark provoked Mr. Tang, and then they were acquired."

(End of this chapter)