1991 Starting from the core

After taking a bath, Su Yuanshan lay on the bed, but he still couldn't sleep. He simply took out his mobile phone and sent a text message to Sun Xihui, asking her to contact him when she was free tomorrow.

Unexpectedly, within five seconds of sending the message, Sun Xihui replied, and a moment later, she also called.

"Are you still up in the middle of the night?" Sun Xihui's voice sounded a little lazy.

"Sister Sun." Su Yuanshan put his right hand on the back of his neck and said with a smile, "Did I disturb your rest?"

"No, I was watching TV just now." Sun Xihui suppressed a yawn and said with a smile: "I finally got a weekend off, but I found that when I'm not working, I really can't stay up late. By the way, tell me I'll call you tomorrow. What's the matter? thing?"

"Huayuan's matter." Su Yuanshan raised his wrist and glanced at the time. It was already 12:30 in the morning, six and a half hours had passed since the afternoon's incident.

During this period, no one came over to apologize, which means that Laijia really thought that he was just threatening...

After a pause, Su Yuanshan continued: "Find someone from HK to keep an eye on Huayuan. I'm counting on VCD to help me make money for two years."

"Okay! I have long been dissatisfied with this kind of gray channel." Sun Xihui was delighted, but then asked doubtfully: "But why do you suddenly think of it now?"

So Su Yuanshan chatted about what happened in the afternoon. Unexpectedly, Sun Xihui heard that Su Yuanshan was in the special zone and immediately said that she would come during the day tomorrow.

The next morning, Sun Xihui went directly through the customs and entered the special zone - there was an office not far from the customs in the special zone, which was quite convenient.

So when she knocked on the door, Su Yuanshan was still sleeping in.

…

"Sister...you said you keep saying you are old." Su Yuanshan suppressed a yawn, rubbed his eyes, stared at Sun Xihui, who was dressed casually and was sitting on the sofa to take a rest, and said with a bitter smile: "You didn't have any dark circles when you went to bed so late. ?”

"Do you know how many skin care products you use?" Sun Xihui held her cell phone and said with a smile: "Besides, it's just because I'm old that I don't need so much sleep... I haven't heard that if you can't wake up in the first thirty years, you can't wake up in the next thirty years. Can’t sleep?”

"...What kind of fallacy is this?" Su Yuanshan muttered as he walked into the bathroom to wash up.

When he came out, Zhou Xiaohui came over with a day's schedule. Compared with Sun Xihui's refreshing mood, she is a bit "haggard".

"Sister Sun?" Zhou Xiaohui was yawning. Suddenly she saw that the person opening the door was Sun Xihui. She was surprised and said happily: "When did you come here?"

"Just arrived." Sun Xihui looked Zhou Xiaohui up and down and said with a smile: "Xiaohui is becoming more and more capable now."

"No way..." Zhou Xiaohui became embarrassed and hugged Sun Xihui: "It all depends on Sister Sun and Mr. Shan's cultivation."

"Tsk, listen to this little mouth."

At this time, Yang Yingying's voice came from the corridor: "Good morning, Xiaohui. Huh? Who is this?"

…

Three women appeared at the same time. Although Su Yuanshan was not embarrassed at the side, he couldn't say anything. So he simply gave Zhou Xiaohui a day off and let the three of them go play by themselves... He went to the factory alone.

When we arrived at the VCD factory, the meeting chaired by Jiang Qingchuan had not yet ended.

In order to cope with the rise of domestic companies and the impact of low-priced overseas products, Wan Yongliang's marketing department and VCD made three-way preparations.

The first step is to upgrade the VCD standard and launch a "super VCD" with more functions, decoding and error correction capabilities. Super VCD will occupy a higher price range to maintain profits.

Correspondingly, the second-hand preparation is to steadily reduce the price of ordinary VCDs, and the magnitude and intensity of the price reduction are not small. In particular, they will cooperate with major home appliance malls to launch activities.

The third step is to strive to launch DVD players before the end of the year.

Although there are various twists and turns on the current DVD standard, due to the mediation of the equipment manufacturer Yuanxin, the final time is much earlier than in previous generations. Just in the middle of this year, the three parties finally determined the standards.

Here, we need to focus on the role of remote cores in standard implementation.

Around the end of 1992, Philips and Sony began to contact each other, and FarCore was also involved. Compared with these two optical disc giants, the technology proposed by Yuanxin is more in the aspect of data transmission and interface. Frankly speaking, Yuanxin was not really a giant at that time... the image given to people was just that of a software company.

With the participation of Toshiba, Yuanxin's opinions have become a little less important - because the current discussion among the three parties is still on the capacity and size of DVD discs. Everyone wants to use their own technology and doesn’t want to give in...

After more than a year of soy sauce, Xiao Shouping finally got angry.

At a technical meeting, Xiao Shouping directly knocked on the table and said, if the negotiation still can't be concluded, then Yuanxin will ignore it and directly launch a DVD drive with Sony. You two like to have fun, if you don't want to play, find someone else.

As soon as this statement came out, not to mention Philips and Toshiba, even people at Sony were confused.

Indeed, as a close partner of Sony, if other factors are not considered, Yuanxin will definitely side with Sony unconditionally.

But Xiao Shouping's behavior didn't make him angry with Sony...

Although Sony is very happy that Yuanxin has shown a stance of being a die-hard ally, Sony is really bitter in its heart and can't express it on its lips!

——Because Yuanxin’s global DVD rights were given away! This means that Yuanxin will not get involved in the main target markets of DVD players, those Western countries!

If there really is a falling out, Yuanxin will have nothing to lose, but Sony will have to face the joint attack of the two giants Philips and Toshiba...

This is absolutely impossible.

So Sony quickly smoothed things over - that was just our last resort. Now, we sincerely hope to sit down and make money with everyone.

Yuanxin made a strong statement after a year of soy sauce, which also made Philips and Toshiba take Yuanxin's opinions seriously.

The reason is simple. Yuanxin has changed from what it used to be and has grown into a giant that actively engages in cross-border cooperation.

Thousands of days of negotiation are just for money, there is no need to create multiple enemies out of thin air.

As a result, the three parties each took a step back, and various standards for VCD discs were quickly determined.

In the office, Jiang Qingchuan was chatting.

"As for the last point, I hope everyone has a clear understanding."

Jiang Qingchuan nodded to Su Yuanshan who pushed the door open, asked his men to greet Su Yuanshan, and then continued: "Why do those companies fight like shit-eating dogs over the standards of DVDs?"

"The reason is very simple, because DVD discs are not just optical discs used only to store audio and video files. They are not only used in the entertainment industry. In fact, they are also a data storage device."

"We need to clearly understand this. Then, colleagues in the optical drive department need to consider DVD burners."