bloom america

Chapter 148 released in advance

In a sense, analog video is more perfect than digital video - provided there is no interference at all.

In fact, under normal circumstances, the display effect of digital video is better than that of analog video, which is why Catherine takes digitalization so seriously.

After digitization, the loss of picture quality will be greatly reduced, which is why in the 21st century, digital TV has become the mainstream of the era.

And the most important thing is that digital videos can be easily stored in various devices, and data transfer is very convenient.

Although there are pirated copies in the European and American markets, they are relatively rare, so Catherine is not worried in this regard.

In the future, TV sets will become a must-have appliance for every household. Without that home, there would be no TV set.

Game consoles, players, etc. derived from television are also a very huge market.

Catherine is targeting not only televisions, but also a series of markets for televisions, which Catherine does not want to let go of.

"Historically" CD is a great medium, also good for disseminating video, while VCD is an unprecedented digital video based on CD

Catherine's VCD is actually different. It uses d sampling, which is similar to analog video. A video requires two discs, and they are both double-sided.

Catherine often used the concept of predictive coding when processing videos in her previous life. This is d. Compared with laser disc sampling, although this format is not as high in restoration, it can store more things.

Although the concept of d was proposed in 1952, formal research began in the 1970s. In fact, if someone had started researching it since it was proposed, the video of the future might be completely different.

This is also the biggest difficulty that Catherine's vcd is currently working on.

In order to ensure the quality of the picture, Catherine stripped the original picture of the VCD and converted it into black and white, red, green and yellow and blue. The latter two were then converted into brightness information respectively - in this way, if output separately, it would still be a black and white picture.

After being placed on the player, one picture will output the original black and white, while the other two pictures, after reading the information, will output red, green, yellow and blue pictures - in fact, reading and

The output end can only output these two colors.

In this way, the reading of the picture occupies three sides of the disc, and the fourth side is the audio.

Another reason why Catherine did this is that it is simply unrealistic to produce decoding chips with the technological level of the 1990s. If you want to bypass this aspect and maintain the advantage over laser discs, you can only do this.

However, such a VCD has a disadvantage, that is, it can only use color difference components for output. However, such a picture can ensure the maximum visual effect at a relatively low cost compared to laser discs.

But when Catherine's VCD plan was released, she discovered that this guy seemed completely different from the one in history...

"Forget it, it's a video disc anyway...it's okay to call it vcd."

Catherine finally decided this way.

Then, Catherine asked Olson to send letters. These letters were sent to other TV manufacturers.

Catherine will use color difference components in the next generation of televisions, but this does not mean that other manufacturers and business associations will do so. This will be very detrimental to their own market expansion.

Instead of doing this, it is better for everyone to work together to build this market. Catherine is ready to develop with them.

Apple can consider licensing Sangun technology and Trinitron technology to them, but the prerequisite for doing so is that everyone must sit together and formulate a new video standard.

Catherine holds the patent for integrated circuits and has a strong power in the television market, which IBM cannot compare with.

At that time, IBM will have to design its own products according to its own model.

In this way, no matter whether you win or lose, you will be the final winner.

The standard is old hair, and Catherine has never forgotten this.

As long as the negotiations and cooperation with TV manufacturers are reached, then oneself will be in an undefeated position. On the other hand, as long as the negotiations with Hollywood are reached, oneself will be sure of victory.

"Let yourself be in an invincible position first~hehe~"

Catherine suddenly thought of a very good sentence.

After finishing all this work, Catherine immediately decided to start selling it.

When it was put into the market, it received a strong response. Games such as Super Mario and Contra, which are easy to understand and full of fun, quickly captured the hearts of consumers.

This form of entertainment has never been seen before.

This is "electronic games".

The shipment volume soon exceeded 10,000, and the sales of games were even more booming, especially Super Mario. There was actually a situation where more games were sold than game consoles.

Although it only lasted a short period of time, its success is beyond doubt.

As a result, the development of the next generation of game consoles was quickly put on the agenda.

——nimbus, light wheel.

It was named this because Catherine decided to turn the media of this game console into a CD-ROM drive.

The cost of current cassettes is too high, and tapes are fine for storing small-capacity games, but when it comes to large-scale games, it becomes a headache, so optical drives have become the inevitable choice.

Of course, this is just a plan.

Research on CPUs and games on data discs have not yet been made, and the future of the Nimbus game console has not yet been decided.

However, in Catherine's mind, it will take about 5 years or more until the light wheel appears. This matter is not urgent. Historically, FC has been dominant for more than ten years.

After everything was in order, it was already September 1st, and Catherine started to leave for California.

The new R&D center is still under construction. It is a triangular building. Catherine named this R&D center "Noah" - coincidentally, her group is originally an Ark.

The construction of the villa is also in progress. Because Catherine has very high requirements, it will probably be completed next year.

However, Catherine did not come to California to supervise the work.

She came with Apple CEO Olson. They came to write a letter with other TV manufacturers, and their purpose was to formulate a new video standard.

In this regard, Catherine is still very confident. After all, video tapes have only been around for more than ten years. In this era when many people don't even have televisions, video tapes cannot occupy any market at all.

The vested interests are very weak and have not developed at all, so it is actually not difficult for me to "rectify" this industry now.

The sale of the funds quickly recovered Catherine's funds. With the support of a huge capital flow, Catherine was very confident in this negotiation.

Also on September 1st, William Henry Gates stepped into the campus again. At the beginning of the new semester, the students were all talking about "Harry Potter" and they were showing off the Magic War chess set they bought during the summer vacation.

, but William is not so enthusiastic about these magical things.

In fact, what he always wanted was his mother's Microsoft computer. Even if the computer didn't work, William also wanted a Bully game console, but unfortunately, his mother completely vetoed his request.

But William has made up his mind. If his mother doesn't give it to him, then he will use his pocket money to buy it. He can go to work and earn money by himself.

"William, what do you think of "Harry Potter"?" a classmate suddenly asked.

"Oh, I'm sorry." William found himself a little absent-minded, "Actually, that's what I was thinking about."

Released in October, it is something William has dreamed of.

"? By the way, I heard that a "Harry Potter" game will be released."

This group of children seems to be able to relate to "Harry Potter".

All day long, all William was thinking about was that he didn't even have the heart to listen in class.

It wasn't until he returned home that William came back to his senses.

But at this time, he actually saw something similar to the one placed in front of the Apple TV in his bedroom.

William was a little confused.

Isn’t it released in October?

"William, I hope you like it." His mother smiled kindly at him, and William looked excited.

In fact, William's parents pay great attention to their children. In their free time, the family is always together and constantly playing various games.

Before this, his parents thought that their children were too young, had insufficient self-control, and would play games endlessly. However, after observation, they found that their children had grown up, especially in William's share of "

After the report "Investing for Gates Co." was written...

It has to be said that William seems to be very talented in this area. It didn't take long for him to master it completely, and then he successfully opened the Super Mario game...

It was this game that changed William's life.

Twenty years later, someone once interviewed the already famous Mr. William (but no one called him that at that time) and asked him when he started to get in touch with computers.

"In fact, before I came into contact with computers, the first thing I came into contact with was this game console. It was the game called "Super Mario" that led me to this magical world of computers. Before that, I

For the concept of computers, there are only black and white screens and lines of code. Even gametv, which was very popular at that time, only used special characters and did not involve the concept of so-called 'images' at all. But when I first saw

When I saw that gorgeous scene... to be honest, I was shocked..."