Super Tycoon

Jiang Wanmeng came to the headquarters of Zhiduoxing Group excitedly, and at the same time brought their newly developed prototype. According to the agreement between the two companies, Zhiduoxing Group invested in the R\u0026D team of Wanyan Company, so it can obtain related patent rights for free.

Jiang Wanmeng is already preparing to launch this product to the market in the second quarter. Not only in the domestic market, but also in the global market.

Wanyan is also a well-known brand in the global market. It created VCD at the beginning, and led the development of DVD. They even introduced MP3 players to the market first.

Moreover, Wanyan Company also relies on some technology licensing, and can obtain hundreds of millions of dollars in patent licensing fees every year. This is lying down to make money.

Wanyan currently has three main products, one is a DVD player, the other is an MP3 player, and the other is an optical drive for a computer.

Moreover, their optical drive market is currently the industry's number one. Many PC manufacturers in Europe and the United States have chosen their products, and even some PC manufacturers in island countries have also chosen their products.

The DVD market may be shrinking, but the optical drive market isn't going away, not for at least two decades. They can also do technology research and development and authorization to obtain more profits.

Jiang Wanmeng is of course anxious as the company's products decrease. They are not just technology research and development companies, but also factories. If there is no product, the factory can only lay off employees, or even sell the factory.

The successful development of this portable video player made Jiang Wanmeng full of confidence. At least in five years, the company will still have a flagship electronic product that can make a lot of money.

He also hopes that this product can satisfy Zhang Yang. After all, any product that Zhang Yang is satisfied with can eventually make money. He really admires Zhang Yang's control over the market.

Of course, I also hope to have some cooperation with Zhang Yang, such as launching a website that can download their videos in this format.

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"Old Jiang, this is the new product you developed? Has it passed the test?" Zhang Yang fiddled with the gadget in his hand.

The screen is not big, only about two inches, but the thickness is not small, and it is quite heavy, because the metal casing is used to ensure the resistance to falling.

There is no place for external sound, but there is a headphone jack, so you can only use headphones. There are a lot of buttons, seven of them, and there is no expansion card interface.

"Of course it has passed the test. We are ready to debug the equipment for mass production. This is not to show Mr. Zhang. The relevant technical information has also been sent to the headquarters of Zhiduoxing Group. You can also produce it."

"Well,

This is the technical parameter, please take a look. "

Zhang Yang took a look. The storage space is 512M, and the usage time is 2 hours for watching videos, and 4 to 5 hours for listening to music.

The keys include two sound keys, a forward key and a backward key, a confirmation key, an exit key, and the last switch key.

In terms of functions, it seems to be a little less.

"Old Jiang, don't you use a backlit LCD screen?"

"Well, no. The main reason is that the power consumption is too high. The battery has better technology, but the cost is too high. At that time, the cost will exceed 1,000 yuan. How can you sell it?"

Now that the price of cheap MP3s has dropped to more than 500 yuan, the cost is naturally lower. The cost of this product is more than 1,000 yuan, including advertising, research and development, publicity, sales, transportation and other multiple costs. Doesn’t it have to be sold for at least 1,500 yuan to protect the capital?

Such a little thing is so expensive, will anyone be willing to buy it?

If the backlight function is added, wouldn't it be necessary to add two buttons to adjust the brightness of the screen? Then the appearance will have to become larger, and the feel will also deteriorate.

"Well, is there a file in it? Let me try."

Zhang Yang plugged in his earphones and clicked on a video, which was a classic Spring Festival Gala skit on CCTV. The characters are not particularly clear, and the subtitles are relatively small, making it difficult to see clearly, but the sound is not bad.

I changed to an MP3 song and listened to it. The sound quality is very good, and the font of the lyrics is also large. At the same time, it can be scrolled and read clearly.

"The sound quality is good, but the screen clarity is not very good. Is it a hardware problem or a software problem?" Zhang Yang asked.

"All of them. The hardware is a 65K-color color screen. Now there is a better 260,000-color screen, but the cost is also high, and the energy consumption is also high."

"The resolution of this video file is not high, it's not a high-definition version, but you can already see people clearly, can't you?"

Zhang Yang didn't say anything, cost is very important, but quality is also very important. Since we are going to be the first to launch this kind of portable video player, we can't give everyone a feeling of poor quality, otherwise who would want to buy it?

The quality is good, the price is high, and you can also take the high-end route. Just like when the mobile phone came out, didn’t those companies that launched the mobile phone make money?

There are still many rich people in the world. Even if the cost of this thing increases again, it doesn't matter. With the improvement of technology, the cost will drop soon.

"How many formats of video files can you play?"

"Uh, there is only one. It is a video playback format introduced by Microsoft earlier, called AVI. The storage space of video files in this format is small, and it is more suitable for this kind of portable player."

AVI, what a familiar playback format. Many people in previous lives were familiar with this format because they downloaded many small movies from island countries.

Adding ·AVI after many people's names will give people a different feeling, as if the content inside is very great.

"Can't there be another format?"

"Not for the time being, we are still developing it. But as far as I know, there is a company called Archos in France that is also developing this product, and it is said that it has already started applying for a patent."

"We must rush to launch this product ahead of them, otherwise we will not be able to win the title of No. 1, and we will lose a promotional selling point."

Only then did Zhang Yang recall that in his previous life, it was Archos who made this product popular, and even maintained a market share of 75% at one point, making it very popular.

But in this life, Archos is not going to be so beautiful.

"Yes, you can launch it if you want. If the factory's production capacity is insufficient, you can find a foundry." Zhang Yang nodded.

"Mr. Zhang, there is another problem. As I said just now, there are too few video files in this format. We need to build a website to provide video downloads in this format."

"Of course, we also made a video converter, which is solidified in the hardware, and users can also convert it by themselves, but it is always troublesome, isn't it, it takes a long time."

"Okay, let me think about it. I can get in touch with some film and television companies and buy some video licenses for sale. You can push it to the market first. Zhiduoxing Group plans to push it to the market in the third quarter. Everyone will stagger the time to market."