Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 584 Digital Karaoke
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Zhou Liang Shuyi brought the interview team directly to the door, so she came prepared.The festive day is celebrated by many people, and it is also a good time for TV stations to expand their influence.Since Tang Huan came to Xiangjiang at the right time, it is necessary to give full play to the appeal of his prominent boss.

Taking advantage of Xie Ning's make-up, Tang Huan typed up a little draft, and then followed the arrangement of Media Asia TV staff, talking eloquently in front of the camera.

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"Time flies, and before you know it, 1985 has arrived. I am here to wish all the parents and folks a happy New Year's Day and all the best."

"Based on well-known reasons, everyone's psychology at this stage is relatively delicate and complicated. My attitude is inclined to be pragmatic. No matter how the situation changes, even if Xiangjiang's existing 500 million people lose 100 million, the remaining 400 million people Days have to live on, don't they?"

"In any case, in the future development blueprint, Xiangjiang is still the headquarters of Qinhe Group. I also believe that Xiangjiang's current international status, including finance, is still irreplaceable."

"In my opinion, Xiangjiang, which has a small land and a large population, can have the status of today's "Asian Tigers" because of the spirit of the lion mountain gathered by millions of people. Therefore, in the future, everyone will have to Continue to contribute what we can to ourselves and to the whole Xiangjiang.”

"Personally, I hope to bring some projects with international status to Xiangjiang, such as sports. The Xiangjiang International Marathon has been held for the second time. The popularity it has gathered and its stimulating effect on the consumer economy, It is gradually showing up. In the second half of this year, I hope to bring the Hong Kong Tennis Open to everyone.”

"Heung Kong already has quite a few famous skyscrapers in Asia and even the world. I think, in addition to these modern labels, our Oriental Pearl should also have more other irreplaceable soft power business cards, such as tourist attractions, shopping paradise, etc. wait."

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The current governor of Hong Kong may not have Tang Huan's hands and eyes.So his New Year's Day talk, once released on Media Asia TV, immediately attracted the attention of all parties.

From this, the people at the bottom saw that Qinhe, the No. [-] consortium in Xiangjiang, would not run away, and continued to take root; the businessmen also saw the business opportunities that Tang Huan was creating.

Obviously, Xiangjiang still has an important business card. Tang Huan didn't say it, and that is Hong Kong movies and Hong Kong dramas.

You must know that the surrounding areas of Xiangjiang, such as Baodao and Singapore, etc., along with the rapid economic development, have also generated considerable hot money and have a strong desire to go out.

Because the integration of the resources of the Hong Kong film industry is still a bit short of progress, Tang Huan does not want to startle the snake, so as not to attract the collective impact of these hot money.

It has to be said that the Hong Kong government's active non-intervention in Hong Kong, a free port, has both good and bad consequences, and it is impossible to say anything conclusively.On the one hand, the resistance encountered by Tang Huan's resource integration plan is relatively easy to deal with; on the other hand, he also has to guard against more external pretenders.

Compared with the old industries with a long history such as movies, Tang Huan has basically encountered no opponents in the process of promoting the sports industry.However, he also encountered some minor troubles in the fighting competition held in Stormwind City in the Lan Kwai Fong area.

The first is the live broadcast of Media Asia TV. Some viewers complained that the program was barbaric and taught young people badly; Illegal phenomenon.

Regarding these disputes, Media Asia TV and the event organizer tried their best to adjust the match time on the one hand, and on the other hand tried their best to publicize that this is a world-recognized legal event, and it is operating on the right track. Come and testify.

People from all walks of life in Hong Kong have mixed reactions to the rhetoric that "one boxing gym is worth six prisons" has a positive effect on social security.The half-hearted Hong Kong government has an ambiguous attitude. The biggest move is to urge the competition to be regular and cooperate with the police to crack down on illegal activities such as black boxing and peripheral gambling.

In fact, the competitive area in Stormwind City is very popular.When Tang Huan came to inspect, it happened that a lightweight competition was about to start, and the audience under the ring was crowded.

It is a bit exaggerated that the previous entertainment program was a girl with a hot figure who showed off her aerobics, which won endless applause and whistles.

"Why do I feel that this woman looks familiar?" Tang Huan asked casually with a smile, drawing a blank stare from Weng Jingjing who was by his side.

"Maybe the boss still has an impression of the movie "God of Gamblers." The manager replied respectfully, "Her name is Michiko Nishiwaki, she is a Japanese bodybuilding champion and weightlifting champion, and she is now a signed artist under the International Artist Department of DreamWorks. , in "God of Gamblers", playing the role of Kikuko Ueyama Hiroji's female assistant, betting dice with Zhou Runfa, and her dragon tattoo tattoo is amazing..."

"It's endless." Weng Jingjing flew over angrily, and the manager didn't dare to hide, and stopped talking with a sneer.

Stormwind City is engaged in the entertainment industry, so it is inevitable to deal with Xiangjiang's gang forces, so it employs many "professionals". Weng Jingjing is a generation shorter.

Tang Huan smiled, "So, she came here to make some extra money."

"We invited them from DreamWorks, and the channels are on the right track." The manager quickly explained: "The path to stardom for these Japanese who come to Hong Kong is not that easy. They all play supporting roles, like Nishiwaki. Michiko recently took on a movie directed by Hong Jinbao, and we can be considered as helping others to make the best use of it. If the audience in the audience likes it, it will increase the popularity."

"This method of comprehensively allocating resources is very good." Tang Huan nodded approvingly.

While speaking, with the sound of a gong, the competition on the ring officially started.

"This challenger is Billy Zhou, a Canadian featherweight kickboxing champion." The manager said softly.

Naturally, there was a reason why he made such a special introduction. Zhou Billy's attacks on the stage were very fierce, forcing the defenders to be very passive.

After watching three rounds, Weng Jingjing yawned, took Tang Huan's arm and shook it, and said coquettishly, "It's boring, let's hurry up and visit the latest digital karaoke set."

Tang Huan nodded in agreement, and left a compliment before leaving, "Good job, these contestants may be able to transfer to the entertainment industry."

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The concept of karaoke has been around for a long time, and the recognized first record is Daisuke Inoue, a musician in Kobe City, Japan, who invented the first karaoke machine in 1971.

Although there is no novelty in the concept of this entertainment method, the implementation method has been constantly evolving, and the system carrier has developed from magnetic tape to the current video tape and laser disc.

Companies that have an advantage in this field are still mainly from Japan, such as Pioneer Electronics, which launched a commercial laser disc karaoke system in October 1982.

This is not difficult to understand, after all, Japan itself is the birthplace and largest consumer of this application.

But one thing is that the development of karaoke at this stage is still very limited. The biggest obstacles are the commercialization of equipment and song copyright.

As far as equipment is concerned, karaoke systems such as video tapes and laser discs are included, but the actual use effect is not satisfactory.

For example, the number of accompaniment tracks that can be selected by these systems has indeed increased, and the problem of the track search function has also been highlighted-video tapes can only be searched sequentially, and the improvement of laser discs is also very limited. It's a test of patience.

In addition, these systems have one thing in common, that is, they all belong to the analog mode.Regardless of the operating mechanism of the laser video disc, the laser reads the signals pre-recorded on the disc, but these signals are stored in an analog way through frequency modulation, and music CDs that also use laser reading belong to two categories.

As a result, the existing karaoke system also encountered a thorny problem - subtitles.

Judging from the familiar terminal experience of ordinary consumers in time and space, the most fatal shortcomings of the karaoke system at this stage are these two points.As for the sound system, it belongs to the traditional field and has developed good results.

Then the fundamental solution is obvious, digitally stored, VCD that can be read randomly has become the best way to achieve it.

At present, VHS home video recorders are in the hot sale stage. Although Tang Huan's VCD system research and development has made some achievements, it cannot be released prematurely to grab his own job.Even if he doesn't care, the members of the alliance will definitely oppose it, and it will be difficult to lead the team if the hearts of the people are scattered.

In view of this, Tang Huan's VCD system applications are now focusing on high-end fields. The previous broadcast and television-level digital video non-linear editing system Digital-1 was the first result; and the current commercial-level digital random search karaoke system - —DKaraoke-1 is the second result.

In terms of product implementation architecture, DKaraoke-1 is similar to Digital-1, but without the nonlinear editing function of the latter; in terms of storage, there is no expensive enterprise-level 10-inch hard disk system, but more VCD storage; The types and quantities are also correspondingly reduced. After all, it does not need the multimedia hardware encoding function, and the multimedia hardware decoding function is enough.

Such reductions based on practical goals are numerous, which also makes the price of the DKaraoke-1 system affordable for entertainment venues.

Of course, DKaraoke-1 is not a product that was simply cut all the way from Digital-1. It has been carefully designed and optimized in terms of retrieval, subtitles, etc., especially adding a relatively complete music digital rights management.

Among the guests Tang Huan invited today are people from Hong Kong Composers and Lyricists Association, International Federation of Phonographic Industry Hong Kong Branch and other music organizations to discuss music digital copyright management of DKaraoke-1 karaoke system.

Of course, in a small pond like Xiangjiang, Tang Huan could completely ignore the various record industry organizations and play on his own at karaoke. Accordingly, all the money he earned would be put into his own pocket.

However, this benefit still can't satisfy Tang Huan's appetite, he has more ambitious goals.

You know, the reason why Tang Huan chose Xiangjiang as the world premiere location of the DKaraoke-1 system is mainly to quickly create a successful business profit model, and then use this as a template to impress the powerful factions in the record industry in Japan and the United States, so as to pry Move these two markets that can truly be called Jinshan.

The IT industry must remember the arrogance of thinking that once a cross-age technology is released, users will gather and respond, and the market will be in place in one step.If it's really that simple, then Apple only needs one Woz. Jobs, who has a perverse personality, hurry up and play elsewhere.

The reason why karaoke has not developed on a large scale in Japan, the birthplace, is not only because of technology, but also because of copyright restrictions.

If the karaoke system is good enough to attract enough revenue to be lucrative enough to convince the recording industry to venture into this new field, then the problem will be solved.

However, after more than ten years of development, the concept and application of karaoke still seem crude, and the record industry's disappointing attitude towards it is almost entrenched.This makes Tang Huan have to find a way to convince traditional forces even if he has great confidence in the functions provided by his own DKaraoke-1 system.

Here in Xiangjiang, the platform is small and easy to operate. At the same time, the development level of the music industry and the activity of the entertainment consumer market are excellent. It is a suitable place to conduct experiments and create model projects.

When Tang Huan arrived, the staff and guests from all walks of life were already in place, and some of them even came from afar, such as Qiu Fusheng, the founder of Baodao Times Group.

"Mr. Tang, is the karaoke business you said to introduce to me earlier?" Qiu Fusheng asked excitedly with his eyes shining.

"Treasure Island's show model is so prosperous, which shows its consumption power." Tang Huan nodded, "Moreover, Treasure Island is carrying out a massive clean-up project, and the leaders of various gangs are almost caught in it. The younger brothers are beginning to have the opportunity to be in the top position, and the entertainment industry, which is deeply influenced by gang forces, must have lower barriers to entry."

"Mr. Tang's eyes are bright, this is really a good opportunity for the industry to reshuffle." Qiu Fusheng nodded thoughtfully, "I just don't know if the entertainment mode of karaoke can attract visitors from the popular show source."

"It depends on the actual operation skills. Maybe the two can get along well. At the very least, karaoke can reduce the cost of the bosses." Tang Huan pointed out, "If you are interested, you might as well pay attention to the Decoration style, there are still many ways to do this business.”

During the speech, the host announced that the world premiere of the commercial-grade digital random retrieval karaoke system DKaraoke-1 began.

(End of this chapter)