When Feng Yu saw this digital camera, he suddenly remembered that in his previous life, many of these digital cameras had become digital video cameras. These cameras can take pictures and video clips.
Now, there are already digital video cameras. In 1998, Sony had introduced the first digital video camera. But at that time, the storage device is still 3.5 inch floppy disk.
That means that digital video camera can only take short videos. If it is longer, the storage will not be enough. Later, there were digital cameras that used VCD discs as storage devices. Now, there were DVDs as storage devices. After several generations of development, there were many more.
But Feng Yu knows that in the future, flash drives or hard disks will be used as storage devices. DVD will be obsolete soon.
In Feng Yu's previous life, Sony, Toshiba, and other companies worked together to set the DV and HDV standards. These are the HD digital video standards, and they made lots of money from the authorization of patents and technologies.
At that time, China's domestic DVs are not expensive, and they are using Sony and other companies' technologies. This will stop the domestic manufacturers from developing technologies, and they can only buy new technologies from Sony and other companies. Sony and other companies will monopolize the upstream resources.
Feng Yu rubbed his chin. Now, there is only the DV standard. Should he set the HDV standard first?
This way, it will stop the development of the Japanese companies for a long time. Feng Yu can also force the Japanese companies to go against him and give up their monopoly.
He must discuss with Philips, Jiang Wanmeng, Xu Lihua, and the rest. Even if the investment is high, he must do it. The profits in the future will not be a small amount.
Furthermore, this technology can be used on mobile phones. In the future, the mainstream mobile phones will be able to record videos. If Wind and rain mobile phones are the first mobile phones to be able to record videos, then Wind and rain mobile phones will be the trendsetter!
But the most important thing now is to upgrade the DVD format.
Wind & Rain Electronics will lead the DVD forum and develop HD DVD. This is a high definition DVD format. Of course, this is a product of HD TVs.
Back then, television was not so clear. No matter how high definition a DVD was developed, it would be useless. It would still have the same effect when played.
But now that there were HD TVs, the difference between HD DVDs and ordinary DVDs could be seen with the naked eye. Who doesn't like a clearer view of a movie, if possible?
As for what you said about HD DVDs being more expensive? That was not a problem at all. The people who bought the HD TV were not short of money!
Also, Feng Yu found out that Sony and the others had joined the DVD Alliance and started to develop Blu-ray DVD, which is also an HD DVD. But both sides have different standards.
The Japanese companies in the DVD Forum, such as Panasonic, JVC, Hitachi, and Mitsubishi, withdrew from the DVD Forum because of other conflicts with Wind & Rain Electronics. Instead, they joined the DVD Alliance.
These companies felt that they had been treated unfairly in the DVD Forum. It was mainly because after Panasonic's representative expired, the rest of the Japanese companies did not even get a single representative. Instead, it was Hua Xia and other small companies that got the chance to join the DVD Alliance.
These companies had also forgotten about the technologies they had acquired from the DVD Forum. They had joined forces with Sony and other companies to help the DVD Alliance in exchange for other benefits.
If not, the DVD Forum was more powerful than the DVD Alliance in terms of technologies, funds, and number of members, and the DVD Alliance would have surrendered a long time ago.
This time, the Blu-ray DVD Alliance will be leading the development and promotion of the Blu-ray DVD format, and Panasonic and other companies joined without hesitation.
Feng Yu had expected this kind of backstabbing. Luckily, the major companies in the HD DVD Forum were still there. For example, Philips, Thomson, Tata, Samsung, Mingji, etc.
Other than some second and third-tier consumer electronics companies in Japan and Europe, the rest of the companies were still in the DVD Forum.
But Japan had always been one of the top consumer electronics companies in the world. Their influence should not be underestimated.
Blu-ray DVD and HD DVD still had a lot in common. For example, they still used the same 120-millimeter diameter disc as the storage medium, and both used a 405-nanometer blue laser beam for reading and writing (DVD uses a 650-nanometer red laser for reading and writing, and CD uses a 780-nanometer wavelength). Just like the DVD Forum and the DVD Alliance, everyone had different format standards.
Feng Yu and the rest were promoting HD DVD, and this product had the same manufacturing process as the traditional DVD. That means the manufacturers do not need to change the equipment and only need to make some adjustments.
As for the storage, HD DVD can store up to 15GB per layer, and Sony's Blu-ray DVD can store up to 25GB per layer. It seems like Sony's Blu-ray DVD has more storage and should be more popular.
But Sony and the rest do not know that this HD DVD is only a transitional product. The flash drive technology is developing fast.
That's right. In theory, a DVD can store up to 16 layers, and Feng Yu's HD DVD can store up to 180GB. Sony's Blu-ray DVD can store up to 400GB.
This is only in theory. Currently, the mainstream equipment can only store up to two layers, and only a few can store up to three layers. None of them can store up to four layers!
Sony and the rest's Blu-ray DVD format is different from the traditional storage method. If they want to upgrade their production line, it will increase their production cost.
HD DVD can win in the early stages with a low price. After all, a two-hour HD movie will not exceed 15GB. Even for a movie like the Titanic, two layers of data is enough, and there is no need to upgrade the equipment.
Sony and the rest felt their Blu-ray DVD can also be used as a data storage device for servers to back up data. Not to mention that most people use portable hard drives for storage, but the most criticized thing about portable hard drives is that they are easily damaged. But is Blu-ray DVD not easy to damage?
In the future, most of these data storage devices will be using flash drives!
When Blu-ray DVD is developed, the flash drive capacity will be more than 128GB. At that time, there will be a more stable and compact flash drive. What do you think the consumers will choose?
Feng Yu and Kirilenko had introduced HD DVD for profits and to drag the Japanese companies into the HD disc technology competition. This way, the Japanese companies will not have the energy to focus on the development of flash drive technologies.
Feng Yu and the rest will regret in two years!
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