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With the involvement of News Corporation, the nature of promotion has changed. A few days later, initiated by the 20th Century Fox Company, invited several major US film companies to come together to discuss the next generation of broadcast media. At that small internal press conference, Feiyan video players and vcd discs officially appeared in front of the movie dealers.

This brand new video-cd immediately attracted everyone ’s attention. The price-performance ratio was far better than the vhs video tape or ld laser disc in the same period. The css key was also the most troublesome weakness of the film company. Praise. But business people will never be satisfied with this transitional semi-finished product, especially the Hollywood world composed of rampant Jews.

After a week of consultations, the seven major film companies reached an agreement. Together with News Corporation, they established an organization called 'Hollywood Digital Video Consulting Group' (hdvagroup), using vcd as a template and css keys as the basis to promote hardware. Manufacturers have developed a new generation of high-definition digital video carriers to meet the growing demand for high-definition playback.

The organization made a total of seven requirements:

1, can hold 135 minutes of video in a disc;

2. High-quality image effects (better than ld and video-cd);

3, with advanced, realistic sound effects;

4. Can accommodate 3 ~ 5 languages ​​in one CD;

5. Compatible with css key system to strengthen anti-theft monitoring;

6, can adapt to screens of different length and width ratios;

7. There can be multiple versions of the same program in one disc.

The emergence of hdvagroup officially marks that the new generation of media discs has entered the field of vision of hardware manufacturers. No one dares to ignore Hollywood's influence in the world of entertainment. Therefore, after these seven standards were announced, Silicon Valley responded.

But someone ran ahead of them. Before News Corp. announced the news, Chen Yuanming and Yan Qiaosen had already come to Silicon Valley for a sweeping merger. Today, the main target of the optical disc industry is the read and write speed of the optical drive. For current personal computers, 700m is already a terrible number. As long as the cd optical drive can run on the personal computer quickly, it can fully meet most needs. Therefore, there are not many companies upgrading the optical disc itself.

This improvement for optical disc media and physical read and write modes is exactly what is currently needed for vcd and future dvd. So after casting a net, they spent a total of 12 million U.S. dollars and acquired 4 companies involved in the production and research of optical discs, from the development of discs to the development of optical drives. The studio was unified and a new company called Zero Time was established.

A few days after the company was reorganized, hdvagroup appeared in front of the public. In the uproar, the newly established zero-hour company immediately became a target of public criticism, but such attention may not be a good thing, and it will never lack interest in Silicon Valley. Unique talent, with the emergence of zero, people with lofty ideals do not have to rely on the Japanese consortium to show their creativity in Silicon Valley, so the company immediately ushered in another technology expansion, and Yan Qiaosen's Cube has also expanded its size.

Subsequently, as a cooperative alliance, News Corporation injected 10 million U.S. dollars into Zero Time as research and development funds for new optical disc media, and simultaneously acquired 20% of the shares. In exchange, Fox's movie vcd distribution rights before the 1990s were fully open to Feiyan in the 20th century. The profit obtained is based on an account-sharing model, with 42% of Fox and 58% of Feiyan's agent publisher. Classic movies previously given to CCTV are no longer charged for vcd distribution in China.

You need to know that the films that Fox gave away include classic works and so on. These 50 films alone can provide CCTV with a profit of at least 10 million. Such a bold move undoubtedly put a heavy weight on CCTV and Radio and Television, and also broadened the way for the introduction of foreign film discs.

As the first batch of imported works, Chen Yuanming carefully selected it from the warehouse catalog of the 20th Century Fox Company, and finally selected a trilogy produced by Lucas Company and distributed by Fox. A total of 8 works, all of which can be called classics.

With such a rich harvest, Chen Yuanming did not leave the United States immediately to spend the Chinese New Year with his family, but directly entered another round of negotiations. After learning about the formation of the hdvagroup organization, the Sony-Philips Union united immediately and dragged Feiyan into the negotiating field. This negotiation was completely different in nature from the previous intimidating coercion into a true alliance agreement.

The reason for this change in attitude is also very simple. Sony and Philips both got the physical object of vcd machine and vcd disc. After repeated research and demonstration, they found that the technological innovation for cd disc. Now the achievements of Feiyan can be called standardization, and even applied for iso9000 certification in advance. While being impeccable on the certification system, Feiyan also owns the patent of css key for vcd discs, and this will also become one of the necessary means for standardization of next-generation multimedia discs.

Even worse, Feiyan was not listed. Whether it is China's Shanghai and Shenzhen cities, or the US's New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq. Without any public fundraising means, it means that malicious mergers and acquisitions and hegemonic plunder are not effective for it. This new company rooted in China has an independent and perfect self-healing mechanism, and a huge market with bans and barriers for many countries today. Faced with such a fresh enemy, the Sony-Philips Alliance finally lowered its noble head and chose to include Feiyan on the cd front.

It is also necessary for Feiyan to join the Sony-Philips Alliance, on the one hand, because the standards and cores of cd discs are indeed in the hands of the other party, on the other hand, it is very realistic, for antitrust law. Since the end of World War II, several developed countries in the world have successively passed antitrust laws, and even strictly controlled mergers and acquisitions of large enterprises. In the United States, the earliest antitrust country, the punishment and monitoring of monopolies are extremely severe. Therefore, if you want to sell products in the United States, you must ensure that similar products are produced and sold by other manufacturers.

Now that the domestic market has not yet developed, collaboration with Sony-Philips has become a top priority. Under the influence of this dominant ideology, the three companies finally sat together and started a long and arduous negotiation. Until the end of February, the vcd standard white paper was officially established. Sony, Philips, and Feiyan formed the 3c of the vcd industry. After the alliance protected the initiative of Chinese companies to the greatest extent, Feiyan also made concessions to the Southeast Asian market. But Feiyan did not respond to these two invitations to the next generation of multimedia research and development.

After this negotiation, Feiyan ’s influence in the world has soared rapidly. Although there is no intention to open up the western market for the time being, the brand effect has been demonstrated. The introduction of vcd in Hong Kong in Southeast Asia has also started to have a great impact on this emerging industry Interest, the dark tide began to surge in the east.

auzw.com However, at this time, Chen Yuanming's attention was attracted by a "little thing", interrupting his attention to Feiyan, and the almost howling excitement on the phone was suppressed. Lived everything.

"Chen! We're done! Finished!"

That night, Chen Yuanming flew directly to Shau Keiwan City. In Blizzard's humble office, he saw firsthand the wonderful scenes of the two founders cutting Warcraft online, screams, curses, and countless laughter. In the small room, these guys did spend every penny on the blade.

After the first round of the demonstration, Allen looked over with shiny eyes, like a child showing off his treasure.

"How? It's perfect!"

Chen Yuanming smiled, "It's a bit like Dune 2 ... but it's very exciting."

With this affirmation, a bunch of people in front of them cheered immediately, two bangs, and the champagne stopper popped open. The demonstration turned into a celebration party in an instant. Careful for the drawings ~~ "," Come here and pour a glass "in the atmosphere of the college sorority, carrying a full glass of champagne, Chen Yuanming found a seat to sit and sat down.

This is indeed beyond my imagination. When did it appear in previous lives? The end of 94? Early 95? Now, not only the research and development time, but also the completion of the work is a bit more refined than in previous lives. For these game lunatics, rich and no money are really two concepts.

Now with Warcraft 1, with these geniuses who built Blizzard Century in one hand, whether it is profitable and how much profitable is not his concern. How to run this company and expand its distribution channels is the key. Does he also Should you buy a game distribution company or use News Corp.'s distribution channels?

Thinking wildly, Mike walked over with a wine glass, sitting beside him.

"Oh!" After a slight sip of wine, Mike showed a smile full of eight teeth. "Chen, I think Warcraft can sell well. We will become a great game studio like Ximu and a computer. One of the kings of the gaming world. "

You really can, without even adding "one". Chen Yuanming smiled slightly and raised his wine glass to touch the other side gently. "Do you want to know how to sell it?"

"Probably find davidson & associates for distribution, right?" Mike's nose is red and uncontrollably excited, "There are not many companies involved in game distribution at present, and their channels are quite good. We think it is a good partner .But I do n’t know how much money WoW can sell. If it is more than 600,000, we can smoothly invest in the development of the second work ... Ah ~ Of course, ”he added a little apologetically,“ We ​​grew up Large companies may take some time, but they should not be so short of money ... "

Chen Yuanming shook his head, "Don't worry about this. Speaking of which you really should develop a homepage or something, now you are making computer games, and the Internet should be the home of Blizzard."

"Do you think so?" Mike's eyes shone even more. "We used to have an idea, but now it's too difficult to implement, and the computer hardware is far from supporting it, but we think it will happen, maybe in a few minutes. Years later, or ten years later, a game where you can play characters and interact with others, isn't it so fun ... "

Looking at the excited and incoherent youth in front of him, Chen Yuanming smiled and drank the less expensive champagne in his glass.

The next day, the Cisco shares that he bought were thrown out at 2.4 yuan per share. Chen Yuanming reached an agreement with the 20th Century Fox Company with the US $ 10 million earned, and the two parties jointly established a new distribution company for future multimedia business. As a leading company, it specializes in the distribution of movies, TV, game floppy discs and compact discs. With the strong background of News Corporation, this new company's first list took the top three North American game sales charts with its excellent game operability, and made Blizzard a hit.

For Chen Yuanming's move, even Yan Qiaosen felt a little bit crying. This child is really too enthusiastic about the game industry. To the point of being somewhat enchanted, after two times of persuasion had no effect, Yan Qiaosen finally gave up the persuasion and plunged into the development of mpeg-2.

Time flies like running water. Until the end of March, looking at the calendar in front of him, Chen Yuanming showed a small smile. On March 22, 1994, perhaps this day was not important to many people, but It was very important to him.

Today, he is finally 18 years old, and in a legal sense, is an adult.

The author has something to say: Huh, finally there are adults and there are many things that can be started! !! !! The perspective will slowly move away from vcd, to make more profitable drops career xdd

Then said ... wipe the sweat, and found a slightly nasty thing ... The eight major U.S. film industries are MGM Films, Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Universal Pictures, United Cinema, 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney. However, after checking the information, it was found that Lianmei Company was actually annexed by MGM in the 80s and 90s, so in the 90s, it should be the seven major film industries in Hollywood.

And at the time the hdvagroup agreement should have a via, which is the parent company of the Paramount family, but now it has changed from Viacom to News Corporation, which is the parent company of Fox in the 20th century.

I neglected this before, I will not change the clerical errors one by one, everyone will be fine orz

And finally, both MGM-Lianmei and Colombia were annexed by Sony ... Hum, enemy!