Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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Please go to the professional service area over there. After the salesperson finished giving instructions, he continued to respectfully entertain the two imposing customers, Akio Morita and Norio Oga, What else do you need to consult?

Then apply for a membership for me and buy a dvhs video recorder. The thoughtful Akio Morita ordered.

At this time, another young man with a large travel bag came hurriedly and said, Give me ten videotapes from the handheld camera.

Please pay over there. After wrapping up the video tapes that the other party needed, the salesperson carefully instructed, During normal maintenance, please be sure to prevent moisture.

Looking at the extraordinarily small video tape, the corner of Morita Akio's mouth twitched abruptly, and asked slowly: What is the size of the video tape used by this handheld camera?

Its size is only 92 mm x 69 mm x 23 mm, and it can be viewed on an ordinary VHS video recorder through an adapter, but the resolution it supports is lower. The salesperson took an adapter and demonstrated it to the new member.

It's really exquisite. It's hard for a betamax video tape to be so compact. Akio Morita praised in a complicated tone.

You mentioned the key point. After the salesperson complimented, he asked earnestly, ..: We also have the most advanced broadcast-level svhs product solutions here, do you need to know more about it?

It has to be said that the salesperson's eyes are very poisonous, and he will not let go when he has his eyes on Akio Morita and Norio Oga. And the other party's reaction is worthy of his diligence.

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After leaving Akihabara. Akio Morita said with a gloomy face: Our intelligence department is simply a decoration. If I hadn't gone through private channels, I wouldn't have discovered the vhs format. No, the svhs format is already so strong.

A hint of embarrassment flashed across Dahe Norio's face, and he said a few words of persuasion, Our previous lawsuit with Universal Pictures has reached a critical stage, and the subordinates will inevitably be negligent.

Sony developed the videocassette format in the 1970s. The dominant power in the industry is very strong, and Hollywood's views on home video recorders tend to be two-tiered, with optimists estimating that it can bring a considerable additional income; The ups and downs and the elusive box office were further taken away.

Among them, Universal Pictures and Disney belong to the latter,

So after Sony launched the betamax format, it acted first and sued Sony and its distributors in California, USA for copyright infringement.

This lawsuit can be described as protracted, and it has been tossed and tossed for about eight years, and even made it to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Sony, an ambitious outsider, had a very difficult situation in the United States at the beginning. But with the vigorous development of the home video recorder market, especially after last year's explosive leap across the world. As well as feeling that there is an opportunity to join the betamax camp to exert influence, the situation began to favor Sony.

This year, the U.S. Supreme Court finally ruled that the VCR in the public domain does not violate copyright, and Sony was able to get out of the quagmire.

This was originally a happy event, but Akio Morita now sees that the victory of the lawsuit may not effectively increase the market share of his own betamax format. On the contrary, he may even make a wedding dress for the opponent's vhs format, which is becoming more and more obvious. It's strange to be happy.

Norio Ohga understood Morita Akio's mood, so he continued: From the information collected by the intelligence agencies in the United States, we are leading our betamax format to launch a fierce offensive against the vhs format. Last year, the price of vhs video recorders dropped. It has gained great popularity when it is below 1,000 US dollars, and copying this tactic has directly lowered the price to 895 US dollars this year. The other party can be said to be in a hurry. Perhaps, the decisive battle between the betamax format and the vhs format is not too late. Far.

Akio Morita snorted, I hope that the moment of this decisive battle will not come too early.

Unfortunately, the development of the situation is not something Sony can decide at this stage. The more you worry about that piece of cheese on the table falling to the floor, the more it will.

As soon as Akio Morita and Norio Ohga returned to the company headquarters, their subordinates sent a document in a panic and reported in a trembling voice: President, President, this is the news from the American branch, the VHS alliance has started It's time to fight back!

When I opened the folder, the first thing I saw was a fax of a newspaper. Akio Morita only glanced at it, and felt as if he had been hit by a stick in the head, and there was a bang.

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The protracted videotape format war between betamax and vhs not only made manufacturers at a loss, but also greatly damaged the rights and interests of consumers.

No one knows when this war will end, and which side will win the final victory.

But it is obvious that if this war is allowed to continue, in the end, there must be an extremely large number of video tapes and video recorders in the hands of consumers, which will become obsolete products.

In order to avoid a repeat of the chaos caused by the vicious competition in the video tape market in the 1970s, Epson, Panasonic, Sharp, Wal-Mart, United Artists, MGM, Twentieth Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, Warner, Paramount, and CNN Nearly 60 companies including the News Network, including equipment manufacturing, channel distribution, and program content provision, have reached a consensus that from now on, only the VHS format will be supported.

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According to the analysis of performance observers, the current lineup of the betamax alliance, including the latest addition, only has 13 companies. This unlucky number seems to imply a bleak outlook.

Epson and Prominent turned the tables and pushed the videotape format war to the final stage. The background is this year's ruling by the US Supreme Court that the use of videotapes in the public domain does not infringe copyright. The development of the home video recorder industry thus has no legal risks.

Faced with an aggressive drive to grab market share by dropping the price of betamax VCRs below $900. Epson and Epson clearly don't want to be dragged into a standoff. Instead, I intend to make a quick decision.

Epson, which led the research and development of the vhs upgrade format svhs, publicly stated that an early end to this unnecessary dispute due to the self-interest of the merchants will allow everyone to concentrate their energy and resources on developing the next generation of more advanced digital home entertainment systems for families all over the world. .

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After finally calming down, Akio Morita turned his eyes to the manual of the dvhs video recorder that he had placed on the table just now, and muttered to himself, Is Tang Huan's ultimate goal in the field of home entertainment digital content?

This dvhs format should be a test product made by Tang Huan himself. Norio Ohga, who also read the file, said in a deep voice: After joining the CDDA alliance the year before last, he tried to pull us into the alliance that realizes video functions on CDs. , but because the terms are not in our interests. In addition, the goal of completely replacing the status of video tapes and laser discs seems very ridiculous, and finally this invitation will come to nothing. Now it seems that Tang Huan should have never given up on this effort, dvhs format Digital access to audio and video on videotape is clearly preparing the transition for a full shift.

Contact Tang Huan immediately to learn about the latest developments in this alliance. We can no longer be eliminated. Akio Morita said with his eyes flickering.

Hearing Akio Morita say the word out, Norio Ohga couldn't help but sink in his heart, and muttered to himself, Could it be that the president plans to admit defeat in the betamax and vhs video tape format war?

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Tang Huan is not so easy to find. He is also full of opportunities in Japan. For example, his consultant team wants to analyze the successful case of the dancing machine, and he wants to use this to further understand the current Japanese mentality from the bottom to the elite. After all, more mastery may mean more business opportunities.

In fact, Tang Huan was quite surprised by the rapid growth of sales of dance machines in Japan. His original intention was just to create an opportunity, but he did not expect that the dancing machine would become the main decisive force for the expansion of the second-generation Xiaobawang game console market.

Most people think that the success of the dancing machine is a phenomenon, but with the further collection of information, Tang Huan noticed that there are also some inevitable factors.

Take Japanese women who are the main consumers of dancing machines. After being driven by pop idols to participate in dancing machine games, they often feel that their depressed emotions suppressed by the tradition of patriarchal superiority to women seem to have been completely released.

Unexpectedly, the dancing machine turned out to be a symbol representing women's liberation. Sure enough, the highest state of making games is to rise to the level of culture.

Tang Huan, who couldn't help but laugh at this, visited the Japanese branches of Warner and PolyGram with great enthusiasm. Unexpectedly, several famous brokerage companies heard the news and sent their most popular female artists to invite him to participate in various competitions. A special party.

However, Tang Huan still has more important banquets to attend. The current Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hikozaburo Kozoki invited him to dinner in the name of business. The participants were mainly representatives of some Japanese semiconductor companies.

The ongoing Japan-US semiconductor war is a major focus of Japan-US trade frictions, and Tang Huan's company ranks first in the world in demand for memory, and its leading position in the industry is very obvious. It has a considerable impact on the proportion of semiconductor trade between the two countries, so there are many articles to be done here.

In addition, there were two other political dignitaries as companions at the banquet, one is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs Shintaro Abe, and the other is the current Minister of Finance Noboru Takeshita.

Therefore, the specification of this banquet is definitely high enough to give the richest man enough face. You must know that Japan is a powerful country in the world economy. The three ministers of state who hold real power in Yasuhiro Nakasone's cabinet are actually comparable to the heads of small countries. Therefore, Tang Huan has also done his homework accordingly.

Sun Zhengyi, who accompanied him, seemed a little nervous and agitated in the car, which is natural. After all, as a Korean, it is very difficult to squeeze into the upper class in Japan, and he still does not have Japanese nationality.

Seeing Tang Huan throwing two blue pills into his mouth, chewing them up, then taking a bottle of water and drinking it with his head up, Sun Zhengyi, who was a little distracted, asked subconsciously, Why do you take Viagra?

After Tang Huan coughed violently for a while, he replied dumbfoundedly, This is Jianwei Xiaoshi tablets, okay? After coming to Japan, after eating cooked ones, eat raw ones, after eating sweet ones, eat spicy ones, and drink later. I'm doing maintenance.

Sun Zhengyi smiled embarrassedly, I was a little distracted just now. When I saw the blue pills, my first reaction was Viagra, which has been out of stock several times recently.

It seems that I have to ask someone to change the packaging of Jianwei Xiaoshi Tablets. There are so many colors that are not used, how come they match blue. Tang Huan wiped the water from his shirt with a handkerchief, and said with regret muttering.

Do you want to change clothes? Sun Zhengyi reminded apologetically.

Forget it, it's too troublesome. Tang Huan waved his hand disapprovingly, Besides, even if I don't want to pay attention to it, others can't tell why. I'm a Silicon Valley upstart.

At this time, when the car arrived, Tang Huan took another sip of water to moisten his throat, then opened the door and got out of the car. A gust of wind blew, and the handkerchief in his hand inadvertently fell out, and was blown several steps away.

A young man in charge of greeting ran over, picked up the handkerchief, and returned it respectfully, Mr. Tang, your handkerchief.

Thank you. Tang Huan took it, folded it twice, and put it in the pocket of his suit, but when his eyes passed by the other party, he couldn't help being slightly taken aback, You are...

Mr. Tang, hello, I'm Shinzo Abe, my father's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shintaro Abe, and I have been ordered to wait for you here. Shinzo Abe hastily introduced himself.

Let me tell you, why was the trotting posture so coquettish just now! Tang Huan muttered to himself, then nodded with a smile, It's a pleasure to meet you, it's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Abe's family has a long history, and his future is boundless.

Tang Huan did not just say it casually. You must know that Abe Shinzo’s father, Abe Shintaro, together with Takeshita Noboru and Miyazawa Kiichi, are known as the three major political leaders in Japan by the outside world. The Prime Minister of Japan, his great-uncle Sato Sakae was the Prime Minister of Japan in the 1960s, and they are all extremely influential figures. However, Japan's political ecology has a notable feature, that is, family inheritance. Abe Shintaro's status today is not unrelated to the deep political assets possessed by his adopted father-in-law Nobusuke Kishi.

Mr. Tang has won the award, and everyone is already waiting for you inside. Shinzo Abe led the way while talking.

Has Abe entered the political arena now? Tang Huan asked curiously. (To be continued.)

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