Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Generally speaking, the Olympic Games represents the highest level of competitive sports in the world, except for certain highly professional sports, such as football and tennis. `

For fear of affecting their own interests, the highest commercial authority of these sports and the International Olympic Committee often fight openly and secretly, and take various measures to restrict professional athletes from participating in the Olympic Games; on the other hand, the International Olympic Committee For the sake of consideration, there are also many restrictions on the number and age of professional athletes participating in the Olympic Games.

This is the case with tennis, which has not been listed as an official Olympic sport until now. In the current Los Angeles Olympics, it, like baseball, is a performance event. And according to regulations, only athletes under the age of 10 can participate.

In this way, there is also an advantage, that is, it gives young athletes the opportunity to show themselves, as is the case with 15-year-old Steffi Graf.

Steffi Graf's performance has been remarkable since he turned into a professional game at the end of the previous year. Last year, he won his first professional championship at the age of 14, breaking another record. The record of Tracy Austin, a talented tennis girl at the age of 14 and 28 days, made the West German media shout excitedly that she also has a talented tennis player like the United States.

The professional sports media is optimistic that Steffi Graf and Tracy Austin are expected to be the successors of the generation of Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert. Since 1976, they have jointly dominated the world women's tennis.

Trish Austin once defeated Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert respectively, and ascended to the throne of the world twice in 2010 for a total of 21 weeks; Steffi What Graf lacks is the Grand Slam title and the record of defeating these two seniors. But she is still young and has plenty of time to practice.

It's a pity that things backfire. The fate of a genius is always accompanied by various risks of premature death.

Trish Austin has been troubled by back injuries since 1982, and it didn't get better in 1983, and her performance continued to decline. All the majors she participated in were eliminated in the quarter-finals; on the eve of her 21st birthday, she was even called Squeeze out of the ranks of the top ten in the world; after entering this year. It has almost disappeared from the professional arena.

Although Steffi Graf's world ranking has been rising rapidly, this year he has firmly squeezed into the top ten in the world, but Tracy Austin's lessons from the past are there, and Martina Neff Latilova's technique improved after improving her training methods. Steffi Graf, who was unlucky and encountered himself several times, was eliminated from the competition. No one dared to be so sure about the bright future of this young genius. `

In fact, the reason why Steffi Graf repeatedly encountered such masters as Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert in the game has nothing to do with bad luck and poor draws. It is the inevitable result of her outstanding performance and repeated promotions.

Take Wimbledon Tennis Championships, one of the tennis Grand Slam tournaments held from June 25 to July 8 this year. In the fifth group, Steffi Graf made it all the way to join up with the top seeded player Jo Doury of the United Kingdom and compete for a place in the top eight.

The two fought hard in three wonderful sets, and finally Steffi Graf won with the scores of 6:3, 3:6, and 9:7, breaking into the quarterfinals.

Next, Steffi Graf met another seeded player, Hana Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia who once reached the third place in the world, and fought hard again in three sets, winning 6:2, 3:6 , 6:4, narrowly entered the semi-finals, thus creating her best result in a Grand Slam.

but. Steffi Graf's momentum stopped here and was eliminated by Ice Princess Chris Evert 6:3 twice, and the prize money stopped at the pound; the latter lost to Martina Navratilova , won the runner-up prize in pounds.

It can be said that no matter how polarized the evaluation of Steffi Graf is, the West Germans already love their genius girl very much.

Because Steffi Graf was perfect in running fast and precise on the tennis court, she was praised by Tang Huan as Lingbo Weibu. The nickname of Bo Fairy.

In this Olympic tennis match, Steffi Graf naturally broke into the final on August 11 without any accident. The opponent is Sabrina Golesh of Nance_lav.

At this time, the Los Angeles Olympics is drawing to a close. In the medal table, the United States is far ahead in the number of gold medals and medals, which is less than the sum of Romania in second place, West Germany in third place, China in fourth place, and Italy in fifth place. many. It can be described as domineering and full of scenery.

However, this also makes McDonald's, which promotes according to the number of medals, want to cry without tears, and has a deficit of tens of millions of dollars out of thin air. .

The general trend of the medal list has been set. West German media gathered at UCLA's Los Angeles Tennis Center to watch a tennis final that meant nothing to the medal tally.

Because of Tang Huan's appearance, some American media also chased him. ``

The final was not evenly matched. Sabrina Goresh, who was four years older, did not take advantage of any advantages and was defeated by Steffi Graf in straight sets with a score of 6:2 and 6:4. .

It can be seen that Steffi Graf, who is on the rise, is a bit too aggressive and has more to say. After shaking hands with Sabrina Goresh, the originally shy little loli ran to the audience In front of the table, he threw the racket to Tang Huan who was sitting in the front row, and then hooked his fingers, which was full of provocation.

Such post-match tidbits stimulated the audience and various media in the arena, screaming with excitement, encouraging Mr. Fu to end the game. But Tang Huan was very reserved, smiling and waving at the camera.

This little episode will naturally be entertained by all the media, and that’s all there is to it. However, on the last day of the Olympics, CNN produced and aired an entertainment program Tang's Footsteps in the Olympics, Let's take stock of the similarities and differences between Mr. Fu and ordinary people in the programs they like to watch in the past half month, and the ratings have exploded.

It is no exaggeration to say that ABC and Turner Broadcasting Company, which spent huge sums of money to bid for the US television broadcast rights of the Los Angeles Olympics, made a lot of money, and the ratings kept rising, which directly increased the value of advertising. Even soap operas have benefited.

However, among the two broadcasting organizations in charge of broadcasting, Turner Broadcasting Company obviously benefited the most, and the audience received rave reviews. This was unexpected for those who were not convinced that the upstarts got the TV rights. They were waiting to see a joke.

The successful performance of CNN is rooted in the fact that Barry Diller, who jumped over from Paramount, made a lot of contributions, but behind it. The digital video technology provided by Tang Huan also contributed a lot.

The so-called digital video is naturally compared to the traditional analog video, which uses digital methods to record video data.

This technology began at the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 1990s. Three companies launched solutions for digital video production equipment; then Bosch, ampex and three companies came up with solutions for video tape storage.

By 1982, the Radiocommunication Sector of the International Telecommunication Union published a standard called .

Tang Huan has been actively promoting the application tentacles of microcomputers, extending from traditional numerical calculation and data processing to emerging fields such as electronic games, communications, and multimedia. The product solution that he has come up with in digital video is called -1 system.

at this stage. VHS home video recorders in analog form have just become popular in economically developed areas, and it is a good time to reap profits. Tang Huan is not going to make it difficult for himself, and prematurely starts digital video applications including digital video in the mass consumer market. The strategy is from high to low, first aiming at the high-end application field of radio and television level, such as the -1 system.

Compared with other pioneers in the industry who can only use their own products in some specific business links, the -1 system can be fully applied to the program production and broadcasting process of TV stations.

The reason why Tang Huan was able to occupy the leading position in the industry once again was due to the combined effects of several aspects.

First. Tang Huan, who has already accumulated enough capital, can easily divide the subject, allowing a large number of technical experts to conduct basic research according to the direction and ideas he gave. And get the results fast.

Take the compression and decompression of audio and video as an example, which involves many mathematical problems. Tang Huan put some general topics to study in mainland China, and the labor cost required is so low that he is embarrassed.

However, in this way, concepts such as jpeg, mpeg, and so on. It is very different from the original time and space.

Secondly, in the field of manufacturing after research and development, fab1, fab2, and fab3 have fully matured the process level of the 1-micron process. Among the chips produced, the highest operating frequency of the Motorola architecture can be reached; the self-designed architecture As well as a series of processors, the highest operating frequency can be reached; the highest operating frequency of some integrated circuits has even broken far.

On this basis, the speed of digital video encoding and decoding has reached a standard worthy of practical application.

In the end, no matter how it is researched and manufactured, it must be implemented in the application field. If no one comes to buy it, then what's the point of working hard.

At this time, Tang Huan's investment in movies, TV stations and other fields played a leading role in using it. Media Asia TV and Cable News Network were the first users of the -1 system.

One of the video acquisition devices of this digital video application solution is a digital video camera - d-vhs camera, which can be roughly divided into two categories: low-end interlaced scanning and high-end progressive scanning.

When Tang Huan entered the field of video tapes, one of his main goals was to obtain a technical system in this mature field as soon as possible. The proud Sony rejected him, and jvs became a partner.

On the basis of the original video tape format vhs, Tang Huanxun launched an enhanced version of the format s-vhs, and developed a smaller pocket video tape vhs-bsp for shoulder-mounted cameras other than home video recorders; more importantly, Tang Huan Also launched the d-vhs format for digital storage on video tapes, which brings great convenience to computer processing.

JVS and Panasonic can be said to have embraced the thighs that are striding in the right direction. I don’t know how much worry and effort they have saved. Therefore, they have changed from the boss of VHS to the most active waiter in the shop.

The d-vhs camera will perform light-weight and fast lossless compression on the collected digital video, and record it on the d-vhs format video tape, and then the TV station can directly broadcast it, or perform various processing through the -1 system.

A major technical feature of digital video is that users can process the video stream and audio stream separately, such as adding metadata such as date and copyright, or placing flexible subtitles.

With this function, CNN provided the audience with the most comprehensive and intuitive introduction information about the participating athletes during the broadcast of the Olympic Games, allowing the audience to see clearly and clearly when enjoying the game.

In addition, this flexible way of inserting subtitles also brings great convenience to advertisements. CNN's commercial advertising revenue during the Olympic Games has surpassed that of ABC.

This is not all the benefits of the -1 system. Its real power lies in the post-production stage of TV programs. Compared with traditional linear editing, more powerful non-linear editing can be used.

Linear editing requires the cooperation of several video recorders, video effects machines, sound mixers, control panels, signal generators and other equipment in order to edit the content of the master tape to the finished tape in chronological order.

This editing method is time-consuming and labor-intensive. One of the reasons why behind-the-scenes personnel such as TV station directors stay up late and work overtime is the cumbersome work.

There are a total of 23 major events and 221 small events in the Los Angeles Olympics, and the host team, the United States, has won so many medals. The presentation of each wonderful moment is a severe workload test for all TV organizations that broadcast.

CNN, which has adopted the -1 system, is undoubtedly far ahead in the appeal of this program that most attracts viewers. (To be continued.)

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