Roaming in the world of film and television

This guy is fast enough.

He thought that Ah Yang would wait for him to send Ruan Wan to the electronic market before doing what he planned yesterday.

"I'll go to the first floor to have a look."

Instructing the two to keep an eye on the counter, Lin Yue came to the lobby on the first floor.

It may be because the end of the new year is approaching, and the traffic of the electronic market is much larger than before. From the faces, many of them are college students in their twenties.

Lin Yue walked more than half a circle on the first floor, and finally found Ayang surrounded by people at a counter selling BP machines, mobile phones and other communication equipment in the northwest.

"Ayang."

He yelled outside the counter.

"Hey, you came so fast, Ruan Wan is gone?" After saying this, A Yang introduced to the people next to him: "Here, he is here."

"Come, come, come, young man." Among the seven or eight people around outside, the middle-aged man in a gray sweater pointed at the movie clip being played in the computer window and said, "You invented this software?"

Lin Yue walked into the counter: "Yes, I invented it, how about it, can it still be used?"

In the mid-1990s, the built-in player of WINDOWS could not play the video files in VCD, so it could only use third-party software, but the effect was not good, because most of the DVDs on the market were pirated discs, and the quality was uneven. It often occurs that the disk is not read, the disk is stuck, etc., and sometimes the computer crashes.

Lin Yue now sells video discs, and is also engaged in leasing business at Jingnan University of Technology. When he is free, he uses the assembly technology he learned before to make a decoding software, which converts the YUV format of VCD to the RGB format of the computer, named Super Decoder.

When a piece of software comes out, it has to be tested and improved by collecting bugs and opinions, but how many students of Jingnan University of Technology can afford a computer? So he turned his attention to the electronics market on Zhujiang Road, which is considered to be the place with the highest computer penetration rate. If this kind of software that can effectively correct errors and wear out VCD discs is provided for free to them, of course there is no reason to refuse.

The middle-aged man said: "It is very easy to use, and its error correction ability is stronger than this year's latest Aiduo VCD. We tried it just now, and the disc that cannot be read in the VCD can be easily opened with your software. .”

A middle-aged woman with high cheekbones said, "Young man, I heard that the counter selling DVDs and computer CDs on the second floor is yours?"

Lin Yue said, "Yes."

"What's your name? How old is this year, twenty-one? Twenty-two?"

"Auntie, my name is Zhang Kai, and I will be twenty-one in just over a month."

"Having such a business acumen at such a young age, and being able to design and produce computer software, is amazing. It's much better than our family's little bastard who knew he was going out to fool around when he came back from winter vacation."

Lin Yue said: "Don't praise me, I designed such a software for my own convenience, because it looks good, my friend suggested that I find a few more people to try it out, and see if there is any room for improvement. "

"It's quite modest." The middle-aged woman leaned closer: "Which university do you study in? Do you have a girlfriend?"

Lin Yue smiled awkwardly: "I'm studying at Jingnan University of Technology."

"That's great." She still wanted to say something, but was pulled by a man next to her who seemed to have a close relationship with her, and then she closed her mouth resentfully.

A man in his thirties next to him said impatiently: "Old Lu's clothes are ready, it's our turn."

A Yang picked up the disc bag placed in front of the computer desk and got up from the chair.

Lin Yuewang said to the owner of the counter: "Boss Lu, if there is any problem in the use of the software, please come to the counter on the east side of the second floor to find me."

"Okay, thank you, Xiao Zhang."

Leaving Boss Lu's counter, Lin Yue and A Yang went to several counters with computers. They didn't relax until near noon, and went to a noodle restaurant outside to order two bowls of beef noodles and half a catty of beef in sauce.

"Zhang Kai, didn't you say that making software is very profitable, but the software you spent a month to make is provided to them for free, isn't that too bad?"

Ah Yang is very aware of how much effort Lin Yue has put into "Super Decoding" in the past month. When Xiaopang and Siyan'er were playing games, he conceived by the side, and wrote down sections of program codes on straw paper. Sometimes Chen Xiaozheng couldn't even fall asleep, and he was still holding a flashlight on the bed to modify the parameters.

Such a good software is provided free of charge to merchants in the electronic market, no matter how you think about it, you will lose money.

Lin Yue said: "Some restaurants launch new dishes and ask some people to try them for free. It is the same principle to make software. In the long run, 'super decoding' is just a stepping stone."

"Knocking brick? Knock on what door?"

"If this software is really easy to use, do you think they will recommend it to their friends? Once they develop a habit of using it and face an upgraded version with a better experience later, do you think they will be willing to buy it for real money? ?”

Ayang was stunned, he really didn't think so much.

Lin Yue patted him on the shoulder: "I haven't heard a saying, the free one is the most expensive."

"But computers are something that few people can afford." After thinking about it, he still felt a bit at a loss.

Lin Yue said: "In the past, VCDs were still beyond the reach of ordinary families. Now the latest models with super error correction capabilities only cost two to three thousand yuan? And you have seen it all. Those who claim to have super error correction capabilities Machines are not as good as 'super decoding'. VCDs, tape recorders, game consoles, and even televisions will all be replaced by computer integration in the future."

A Yang said: "You are so pessimistic about the development of VCD, why are you still selling CDs at the rental counter in the electronic market? Oh, by the way, the first batch of CD packaging paper provided by the printing factory has just arrived. Pick the bag."

Lin Yue glanced at the passers-by on the street outside on their newly bought bicycles.

"It should be a few years before the popularization of computers. During this period, VCD and its derivatives will decline with time, but there is still the last train to make money. Now I am upgrading from night market stalls to rental counters. My plan is to obtain Transformation funds."

It’s the beginning of 1997, and VCDs will still be popular for at least two years, and then DVDs. Computers will be widely popularized after 2003, so as long as you don’t drift away, you can still make money—why are there so many VCDs now? Because the profit margin is above 300%, there are many factories in Guangdong. Now is the era of VCD discs, followed by DVD discs, computer system disks, game installation disks... Even if you are just an ordinary person, you can read the pulse of the market, and it is not a problem to buy two houses in BJ.

"Transformation?" Ayang felt that he was listening to the heavenly scriptures. Classmate Zhang talked a lot, which sounded reasonable, but there were too many things he couldn't understand.

Lin Yue didn't explain, and tapped the edge of the bowl with his chopsticks: "Eat noodles, if you don't eat them, they will be cold."

...

During the winter vacation, other college students eat their mother’s meals and sleep late, visit relatives and friends to play cards and video games...

Lin Yue was not idle. While studying the sophomore course of the Department of Architecture by himself, while improving the "super decoding", he started his second computer application.

It wasn't until the third day before New Year's Eve that he boarded the return train with Xiaohai and Awei to celebrate the Lunar New Year with his family in this world.

Parents always have complaints. Although Zhang Kai’s family conditions are not as good as those of Xu Kaiyang’s rich second generation, they can still be regarded as middle-income families in regional cities. It is no problem for him to finish his university studies, so there is no need for him to go to a work-study program.

Lin Yue didn't tell them that he had earned almost 8,000 yuan in the half a month approaching the end of the new year, and what he gave the elders was the final report card.

Compared with the grade repetition notice before the summer vacation last year, the third overall score of the whole grade made this new year a lot more festive. In a working family in 1996, making money was far less important than getting good grades.

Because of this, Zhang's father has become more energetic, and he has a little more confidence in speaking in front of his elder brother and second brother.

The day before the Spring Festival, he went to a local department store to buy a Little Swan washing machine and a Haier refrigerator for his family. When the delivery man was carrying things to the door, Zhang’s mother accidentally bit her tongue, but she still ate dumplings on New Year’s Eve. .

After the Lunar New Year, he visited relatives and friends as before, until Friday, when he got on the train to Jingnan University of Technology.

He lived at Xu Kaiyang's house that day, and asked Ayang to drink some wine in the evening.

After Xiaohai and Awei came back the next day, the counter of the electronic market opened. Selling CDs is not like the catering industry. During the Chinese New Year, when citizens are looking for entertainment, business is better than usual. In addition, Lin Yue stopped there. After [Bargaining LV3] and [Teacher Killer LV2], the nearby colleagues found that they couldn't beat him no matter what they did.

On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, Lin Yue got a message from Xiaohai. In the evening, he arranged things in the store, bought some longan and peanuts at the dry goods store opposite, and returned to Jingnan on his Feige bicycle. University of Science and Technology, but didn't go to the boys' dormitory, went straight into the still deserted girls' dormitory, and knocked on the door of Room 308.

Boom, boom, boom~

Waited outside for almost a minute before the door opened.

Nothing has changed.

Li Weijuan's bed was drawn with curtains, Ruan Guan's bed was tidy, with a poster of a goatskin band on the wall, and Zhu Xiaobei had a basketball in a net pocket by the bedside.

become human.

Zheng Wei stood in the deserted dormitory, gritted his teeth and looked at him for a while, then picked up the pillow on his own bed and threw it over: "What are you doing here? Who asked you to come, you go, you go!"

Thanks to SU Tang for the reward of 1000 starting coins, the big pineapple of the realm, and Song Wenci for the reward of 500 starting coins.