Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 642 This VCD Is Not That VCD

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Pacific Telecom, Fangyuan, Zheru, and Rich Skrenta kept a low profile when facing the media, all following Tang Huan's instructions.The reason why he explained so, of course, has his own reasons.

Hacker—Hacker is a special culture in the computer field, and it is a dreadful force that cannot be restrained.Sometimes, it is like a knight-errant in ancient China, drawing his sword to face each other when he disagrees with him, bleeding five steps, and drinking his hatred on the spot.

Especially as personal computers lead the application of IT technology into various fields, and thus create a huge and complicated chain of benefits, the water in this river and lake is becoming more and more muddy.

"WhiteHat" who can abide by the simple moral principles of hacker culture at the beginning - "White Hat Hackers", cannot be said to be gone, but compared to the profit-driven "BlackHat" - "Black Hat Hackers", or even "Cracker" - "Executioner" inevitably seems a little niche.

Not afraid of thieves stealing, but afraid of thieves thinking.

There is only a thousand days to be a thief, but there is no thousand days to prevent a thief.

Take people like Kevin Mitnick as an example, it doesn’t matter if they are caught, they will come out after a few years, and there is a high probability that they will return to their old jobs alive and kicking.

However, large companies like Pacific Telecom, Fangyuan, and Zheru belong to the "porcelain" placed in the open, and it is enough to deter Xiaoxiao and let him understand the purpose of "looking for another home if you want to pick up a bargain". It's not worth it to offend the entire underground hacker world that lives in the dark by fighting and talking quickly!

Big companies know the benefits of making a fortune in silence, so they naturally follow orders, but Rich Skrenta can teach a child, and he also took the opportunity to give a free promotion for the upcoming anti-virus software, which made Tang Huan quite happy. For comfort.

The reason why Zheru authorized Symantec to make specific products, which is definitely an industry-leading antivirus engine, is mainly because of the cross-platform nature of computer security issues.

Although the Fangyuan computer standard has an advantage in the market, other platforms including IBM-PC and Apple Computer are also widely used, especially because the system has more loopholes, which makes it easier to be targeted by malicious programs.

Furthermore, Zheru holds such specific products in his own hands, which is not as credible as Symantec's operation as a third party.Even strictly speaking, this company belongs to Tang Huan's camp, but the industry needs such an attitude, after all, you already have enough things.

In fact, Tang Huan brought up a group of small companies that were secretly controlled. Although it was a bit more troublesome than the model of concentrating all industries together, it undoubtedly made his IT empire more stable. worth it.

As for the bluffing "New York Post" to deal with unsalable newspapers in a panic, and being buried by the rival "New York Daily News" in the same city, that is really asking for it. Bring back a dud!
The ship queen Christina couldn't get enough of the excitement, so she specially arranged for someone to find out exactly how much the "New York Post" had lost, and then broke the news to the media, embarrassing her opponent even more.

As the "New York Post" began to shrink its head, the farce died down.Christina couldn't help but feel bored. Although she promised to stay in New York until May, she was already tired of playing here, so she decided to go to Argentina.

When the old ship tycoon Aristotle Onassis was young, he started his business by doing tobacco trade and transportation business in Argentina, so the family still has a lot of property there, and Christina was not idle in the past.

However, the situation in Latin America has not been stable in recent years, and the top-ranked regional powers are all making trouble.

For example, in Brazil in the north of the South American continent, the right-wing military dictatorship established through a military coup in 1964 could not be maintained by 1984. However, former senator Tancredo Neymar won the democratic election in 1985 and was elected president. Weiss was there, but before taking office, he suddenly fell ill and died of illness more than a month later. Vice President José Sarney had to succeed him as president.

And Argentina in the south of the South American continent is even more chaotic.In order to divert domestic conflicts, the desperate Galtieri military government sent troops to occupy the Malvinas Islands in 1982, trying to ignite the people's eagerness to seize the islands, so as to bring back its own rule. The results were also ignited Falklands War.

Two months later, Argentina lost to the United Kingdom, and the Galtieri military government completely lost its authority.Leopoldo Galtieri, who visited the United States in 1981 and was warmly received by Ronald Reagan as an ally against communism, was forced to step down after only two years in the presidency , as well as the position of general, was arrested the following year.

Based on these circumstances, Tang Huan dissuaded him unceremoniously: "You should stop taking the children to wander around in those right and wrong places. If you really can't take it easy, the 1986 World Cup will be held in Mexico City at the end of May. You go there to make an early stop, and then I will try to squeeze in time to arrange a vacation to watch the game."

"Back then you rescued hundreds of Argentine navy soldiers on the 'Gemini' cruise ship. The people there were still thinking about it. There is nothing to worry about." Christina muttered a few words in disbelief, but she, the demon king Tang Huan didn't have any resistance here, and in the end obediently gave up the idea of ​​going all the way to Argentina where the situation was turbulent.

The reason why Tang Huan is so familiar with the situation in Argentina far away in the southern hemisphere is mainly because the best foreign-language Oscar film "Forgotten" that helped Japan operate, and the strongest competitor he encountered was the film "The Official Story" from Argentina——"Official Story" statement".

These two films have their own special political background. "The Forgotten" is about Japanese orphans, and "Official Statement" is about the mass disappearance of people caused by state terrorism during the Argentine military government.

At the Golden Globe Awards at the beginning of this year, "Forsaken" and "Official Statement" competed fiercely. In the end, "Forsaken" narrowly won, which was a good start for the selection of Oscar's best foreign language film.

It is precisely because of this kind of inspiring competition that Tang Huan has a targeted understanding of the background of the story of "Official Statement" - Argentina.

Although the theme of "Official Statement" is also very profound, Tang Huan can only say sorry. He needs the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film to serve his own interests. Who made you catch up with this juncture.

Since entering Hollywood, Tang Huan has never attended the Oscar award ceremony, but his influence has been playing a subtle role in this way.

Tang Huan still doesn't plan to attend the upcoming Oscars this year, and he doesn't even want to rush to the Hong Kong Film Awards, which are already on the right track - he will go and see them when he has time, and forget it if it's too tight, now The main focus is on preparations for the Hannover Messe.

The two most important new products have already been shipped to New York, even attracting Ted Turner to rush over from Atlanta, where the headquarters of Turner Broadcasting Company is located, to see them.

The Challenger space shuttle disaster that occurred at the end of January this year once again demonstrated the resilience of CNN in terms of breaking news. It took a very valuable video of the entire process of the Challenger space shuttle from takeoff to explosion. But the other three major TV networks are a little careless and have not been able to leave such complete information.

Among the follow-up reports of many media, CNN has left a deep impression on everyone with its unique style, and handed in a perfect answer sheet, which did not disappoint Tang Huan's huge investment.

Under the leadership of Barry Diller, the specific affairs of the Turner Broadcasting Company no longer required Ted Turner to spend too much energy, so he freed up time this year to be busy with another thing-the Goodwill Games.

The Goodwill Games founded by Ted Turner - the Friendship Games is a commercial international sports event. The background is that the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, which caused the United States and other Western countries to refuse to participate in the 1980 Moscow Olympics. As a counterattack, the Soviet Union did not Participated in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

The establishment of the Friendship Games is precisely to alleviate such political antagonisms at this stage.The venue for the first Friendship Games to be held in July this year is Moscow, which is also in line with the general situation that the United Nations designated this year as the "International Year of Peace".

In the original time and space, the Friendship Games were not unknown. Although it was finally discontinued in the 21st century, its achievements including the number of athletes participating, record-breaking sports performance, etc. have reached the extreme of commercial games, and the people in the country are more familiar with it. The news may be that the famous Chinese gymnast Sang Lan unfortunately encountered an accident in this event.

Ted Turner went to New York this time just to watch the two major technological achievements that he cared about - VCD and network technology.

The VCD among them, compared with the VCD of the original version of time and space, can only be described as this VCD is different from that VCD. Due to the technical implementation added by Tang Huan to address the original flaws, it has been changed beyond recognition.

As the name suggests, VideoCompactDisc—VCD is an audio-visual disc, which uses the technical basis of CompactDisk——CD is CD, but compared with Sony and Philips leading the formulation of CD technical standards, VCD technical standards are in the hands of Tang Huan.

Sony and Philips naturally do not want their CD brands to be taken advantage of, but since they have already opened a hole for Tang Huan on the CD-ROM/RW used in computers, they can only be coerced and lured to continue to make concessions on VCD, otherwise they will continue to make concessions on VCD. What the other party said: If everyone really broke up, there would really be nothing for you.

In fact, regardless of CD-ROM/RW or VCD, the relationship between them and CD, apart from the specious continuation of the brand, technically only borrows the ready-made convenience of "storage media", in terms of data storage, player reading, etc. , directly using existing industry standards that already have a foundation.

If Tang Huan was really shut out, the other party would definitely start anew and come up with a set of things that were completely opposite to the CD, and it might even threaten the marketing of the CD.

This is not alarmist talk, just like the CD-ROM/RW used by computers, Tang Huan's technical reserves on VCD are so perfect that Sony and Philips' scalps are numb, and they cannot catch up.

More importantly, in the most decisive market—the United States, Tang Huan has a decisive influence on the film, music, and television industries through Hollywood, Warner Records, and Turner Broadcasting Company.

RCA's tragedy of losing 6 million US dollars for a similar product is impossible to repeat with Tang Huan.

You must know that the CompactDisk in the form of digital access——CD, also has an emerging competitor in the market, and that is the LaserDisc in the form of analog access—the laser disc or LD.

CD is still in the growth stage. After entering the computer application field through Tang Huan, it has benefited a lot; if it enters the video field again, it should be even more powerful.

With this bright prospect, Sony and Philips can only give in half-heartedly.What's more, the two are not monolithic. Sony is willing to resist, in order to restore the unfavorable situation that Betamax lost to VHS in the home video field format war, but Philips, which is even more ineffective in the home video field, took the lead. Sony could only hold his nose and obey, otherwise he wouldn't even have to drink the soup.

In terms of video quality alone, VCD has no obvious advantages compared to the mature video tapes that have been developed for many years and the emerging laser discs.

就拿最直接的指标——分辨率来讲，录像带可以达到水平分辨率240线，垂直分辨率随着电视制式达到NTSC下的486线和PAL下的576线；而家用版本VCD的分辨率则相应地为352x240像素和352x288像素，大约是对应电视制式分辨率的四分之一。

Such an indicator is naturally reasonable, and it is the most suitable industrial specification that the current hardware configuration can operate.In fact, this is not a big deal. In the future, as the semiconductor technology improves, it will just need to be upgraded.

The true value of VCD must be implemented in its inherent "digital format". Compared with "analog format", there are too many operable things in it.

As for the connection between VCD and piracy in the original time and space, it is a matter of operation. This kind of game of one foot high and one foot high is completely absurdly attributed to a technical standard, plus a digital video disc region code restriction. .

What's more, Tang Huan didn't intend to promote VCD to the home application field from the beginning. He first aimed at the advanced application field of broadcasting and television, operating a full-resolution version of VCD.Its most attractive feature is the support for feature-rich menus and subtitles, as well as the separation of audio and video streams and many other features.

To put it simply, Tang Huan's VCD version is similar to the VCD in the original time and space. It incorporates some standard practical features, including DVD, and improves it a lot.

(End of this chapter)