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After returning home, there is no need to be in such a hurry.

Zhou Buqi went home to rest for a while and took a nap.

After getting up, I called Lu Qi and told him to pay attention to the game streaming market.

Games are a market that must be developed. Zhou Buqi and Ziweixing have never objected to making games, but he does not want to use traditional thinking to make games.

The so-called traditional game thinking is to design and develop a game, and then release it to players.

If players like it, even if it is successful, the profit margin will be very large.

But the risks are also extremely high.

Many well-known game companies have fallen into crisis due to the failure of the development of one or two games and were forced to sell. Even giants like Blizzard are not immune.

This traditional model has an inevitable limitation, which is the market popularity of the game.

If the game is well developed, of course the market will welcome it.

But once the game is not well done and is not popular with players, it may fail miserably.

There is a risk.

There is one kind of business that has almost no risk, and that is a "tax-collecting" business. Just like the Apple Store, Apple does not need to develop its own games. It only needs to create such a platform and let game developers sell their games in the store.

Apple does not need to invest in developing games, but it has become the company that makes the most money from the game industry in the world.

There is nothing to do, just collect taxes.

All the Internet giants in the world have achieved great success by building a tax collection platform, including online ride-hailing, food delivery and other industries in the next few years. They are essentially the same model.

Work hard to create a kingdom, and then... you will be the king of this kingdom. You don't have to do anything, just manage the people well and let them work hard. The king can just sit back and enjoy the fruits and collect taxes.

It is easiest for the ruling class to make money from the ruled class.

If Ziweixing wants to make games, it still needs to be done from the perspective of a king.

"If you want to do it, be a king!"

Zhou Buqi had a good sleep and was full of energy. As he walked towards the restaurant, he talked to Lu Qi on the phone, his words sonorous and powerful.

Aunt Xue was preparing lunch for him in the kitchen. After hearing this, she couldn't laugh or cry, and said angrily: "I know you are the king, why are you showing off? Just like a child!"

"What? I'm just calling to arrange work."

Zhou Buqi shook his phone at her.

Aunt Xue rolled her eyes at him and said, "Let's just eat some of the scallion pancakes I made and drink a cup of coffee. Baoshan called me just now."

"What did she say?"

"I'm asking if you're awake. I might have an event tonight and I want you to go. I've made an appointment with Jin Dian."

"Jin Dian?" Zhou Buqi was stunned for a moment, "Milk?"

Aunt Xue said: "What milk? Didn't you ask her to coordinate and arrange the film and television plan? Jindian Pictures is a subsidiary of China Film and Television and is the main force in film and film in China."

Zhou Buqi frowned slightly and immediately called Baoshan, "Sister Bao, are you having a game tonight?"

Xue Baoshan chuckled and said, "Well, Mr. Zhang from Jindian."

Zhou Buqi hesitated for a moment and said, "Isn't it necessary? He's just a little person, why do you go into battle in person?"

"ah?"

This was the first time for Xue Baoshan to accept such a task, so she was somewhat unaccustomed to it.

Zhou Buqi said: "What we are doing is a big thing, and it is a big transnational business. It can turn our country into the largest plastic transfer base in the world. For a big thing of this level, letting China Film take the lead is a compliment to them."

Xue Baoshan was young and inexperienced, "What should we do? We have an appointment for tonight."

Zhou Buqi said: "Just ask Xu Baihui to send an assistant. The vice president of Jieyu Media will come forward and it will be enough to settle the matter. You are a beautiful girl, so don't deal with the officials."

"I'm here at Baihui, will you come over soon?"

"OK."

Zhou Buqi ate a piece of scallion pancake and drank a cup of coffee, which was considered a combination of Chinese and Western.

Then, I went to Jieyu Media and met Xu Baihui and Xue Baoshan.

Speaking of Jindian Pictures.

What a misunderstanding.

This small company is actually a private enterprise, and its boss is Zhang An'an, a very passionate filmmaker who sincerely wants to help the development of the domestic film industry. Because there was no money, it was later merged into China Film and Television and became a government-owned and private company.

The main business item is "glue transfer number".

However, his implementation of this "glue transfer" project was different from what Zhou Buqi said.

What Zhou Buqi wants to do is to convert all past film content into digital content, and then disseminate it online through the Internet. What Mr. Zhang wants to do is to promote the reform of film shooting and screening, from the past film system to a digital system.

This is also a very meritorious thing.

Shooting on film is too expensive.

Shooting digitally is much easier, and the cost of the hard drive is almost negligible. At the same time, cinemas must also undergo comprehensive innovation, from the past film projection equipment to digital projection equipment.

Later, the domestic film market flourished because of the success of "film transfer".

The cost of digital projection equipment is much lower, the price of copies is also lower, and the upstream and downstream costs of the entire film industry have plummeted... With the investment remaining unchanged, more cinemas can be built.

As for what Zhou Buqi said about converting film content into digital content, this was actually not taken seriously and there was no technical difficulty. What is difficult is that after converting into digital content, the content transferred from the "disrepaired" film will be restored through a series of subsequent technical means.

However, from a broad perspective, they are basically the same.

All are promoting the transformation of movies from film to digital.

The technical processing of digital content requires the use of artificial intelligence, and related technologies can be developed by Ziweixing; as for the telecine and magnetic transfer processes, it is handled by Jieyu Media.

If it's one or two movies, this is actually very easy, just do it by hand.

It's like when a new Nolan movie is released. His movies are all shot on film, and he can be assigned a strong team to complete various post-production processes.

The problem is that the cost of this kind of post-processing is too high.

There may be millions of film contents in the world. The process of telecine transfer and magnetic transfer requires manual work, and digital restoration requires computer processing... The larger the volume, the higher the cost.

There is too much film content in ZiMSI Global.

In the future, entertainment giants such as Warner, Disney, and 20th Century Fox will inevitably move towards the "film to digital" path, and they will all find ways to convert all their film content into digital content at the lowest cost and with the highest efficiency.

At this time, the ecology of "Ziwei Galaxy" can come into play!

Xu Baihui said: "There is no technical difficulty at all in converting film to digital. Any small company can do it. I don't think there is much significance in doing this."

Zhou Buqi waved his hand and said, "Then you don't understand."

Xu Baihui curled her lips and said, "Uh-huh, boss Zhou, can you give me some advice?"

Zhou Buqi said: "If the quantity is small, of course it is easy, but if the scale is large, the matter becomes more complicated. Ziweixing Global is our industry, and we can just use the cooperation between Ziweixing Global and Netflix to carry out large-volume production." For the opportunity of rubber-to-digital transfer, Jieyu Media can cooperate with Ziweixing International Department to implement this rubber-to-digital project in China."

"You can't make much money!"

Xu Baihui shook her head.

"Making money?" Zhou Buqi snorted, "If it was just to make money, I wouldn't send my sister Jiabao out!"

Xu Baihui twisted her nose in anger, "Stop being so pretentious!"

Zhou Buqi said: "The era of streaming media has arrived. Youku and Tudou are all lining up to be listed on the market. North America, the European Union, South Korea and Japan are all about the same. The spring of video websites has arrived. Video websites need digital Content, digital content means copyright fees. Film companies around the world, those old films gathering dust in warehouses, are equivalent to having a new distribution channel."

Xu Baihui nodded, "Well, you can sell it for money."

Zhou Buqi said: "If you want to sell money, the premise is to convert film content into digital content. It was not until 2000 that the United States developed the first digital imaging chip, and the time was still very short. For example, Warner, if Warner seeks the United States It would cost a lot of money for a local team to convert so many of its films into digital, and the efficiency would be poor. The main purpose of Jieyu Media is to do this."

"Then what?" Xu Baihui was very puzzled, "What's the benefit to us? This business can't make much money. Moreover, it's all one-time, and it's over once it's transferred. When all the films in the world have been transferred, Such a large team needs to be disbanded.”

Zhou Buqi said: "The advantage is that it will help the development of the cloud computing industry."

"ah?"

Xu Baihui was confused.

It feels like it's a bit far.

Zhou Buqi said: "Ziweiyun's development in overseas markets has some bottlenecks that are difficult to break through. For example, when the U.S. government wants to build a government cloud, it can only cooperate with Amazon Cloud, and it is impossible to choose Ziweiyun. Ziweiyun wants to If you want to show your talents in the cloud computing industry, you must choose key industry layouts.”

Xu Baihui nodded lightly, "Well, I heard you said that we should focus on the streaming media industry."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Yes, streaming media. The most important one is video streaming. From now on, all Netflix video streams will be transmitted through Ziweiyun."

In fact, the most convenient ones are some adult restricted websites.

The business models of such websites are generally relatively simple, lack scalability, and have poor profitability. As a result, it is difficult for this type of website to open branches all over the world like regular websites.

This resulted in great resistance to dissemination.

For example, if you want to watch some American websites in the UK, you have to use an American server. The Internet speed will be very poor, which will affect the viewing experience. But they did not have the financial strength to set up a branch in the UK.

Cloud computing services help them solve this problem.

The U.S. headquarters deploys a cloud server for the UK in the cloud, so that work can be completed across regions. This type of website does not require any market research, and its user positioning is extremely accurate. It can be taken for granted that it can be used in one model to target the whole world.

Xu Baihui hasn't reacted yet.

Xue Baoshan always follows Zhou Buqi, so she can understand his intentions more deeply. She smiled and said: "The digital content converted from glue transfer needs to be stored. Where is it stored? Of course it is Ziweiyun. . And once it is stored in Ziweiyun’s data center, it will be too difficult to migrate such a large amount of data out.”

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Yes, Sister Bao is still smart. No one can control which streaming media platform Warner wants to license the film and television rights to. It is very likely that they will launch their own streaming media platform in the future. However, streaming In the final analysis, media still comes from content. As long as Warner's digital content is stored in Ziweiyun's data center, when Warner deploys the streaming media industry in the future, no matter who the copyright is authorized to, no matter what business model they adopt, in the end If you want to get data from Ziweiyun, you will still be a user of Ziweiyun!"

Xu Baihui took a deep breath and suddenly understood the in-depth layout of Boss Zhou, "This is the data content that helped Ziweiyun monopolize the film and television industry from the source! This is the king's perspective!"