"General Manager Feng, good news. Great news!"
Feng Yu moved the phone away from his ear. Good news is good news. Why are you shouting?
"What's wrong? Old Jiang, what's making you so excited?" Feng Yu asked. At the same time, Feng Yu was looking forward to it. Could it be that there is a breakthrough in the product technology?
"Our MPEG-II technology is a success!" Jiang Wanmeng shouted excitedly.
"What did you say?" Feng Yu was stunned.
"It is according to your request. Through this coding technology, the sound can reach 4 channels. It is clearer and more realistic, and the image can reach 350 lines. This is the highest resolution in the world. Most importantly, there will not be any mosaics! "
Mosaics refers to the deterioration of the color level in a specific area of the image, causing the color blocks to be messed up. The image will look like small squares and is similar to mosaic tiles. That's why it got the name.
Mosaics is an important issue that restricts the development of VCD. VCD is clearer than ordinary video cassettes, but the disc is too easy to damage. With little friction, it is easy for the disc to jam and mosaics to appear. This will make the user's experience very poor.
This is especially so for the domestic video clubs and video studios. Most VCD discs will have mosaics after a few times of playing. The higher the playing frequency, the more mosaics will appear.
Wind & Rain Electronics had introduced a disc repair solution, which is a water soluble detergent. It can remove the stains on the disc, and the player will not be affected when reading the disc. Later on, they introduced a detergent with alkaline solvent and wax. This is used to polish the disc.
Polishing the disc will allow the player to read the disc with deeper scratches. But after polishing the disc, it will be damaged more easily. This is a temporary solution.
If Feng Yu cannot remove the mosaics, he must at least reduce the frequency of the mosaics appearing. This was why Feng Yu remembered the Super VCD player from his previous life. It was a hybrid between VCD and DVD players. This was also the reason why VCD players were widely used in households. Video cassette players were eliminated from the market.
This was because the earliest VCD used MPEG-1 technology. Not only was the clarity low, but it also did not have a choice of sound channels. As for the second generation technology, with four channels, there were more choices for the sound of the movie. It was also officially launched in both Chinese and Cantonese, as well as Chinese and English CDs, which expanded the market for CDs.
Furthermore, it allowed the VCD player to have the ability to sing along, increasing the usability of the VCD player.
Also, this Super VCD had suppressed LD. Not only did it eliminate the VCR, but it also threatened LD's position, causing the LD's market to decline.
Feng Yu had asked Wind & Rain Electronics and Aiwa to develop this technology. But he did not expect this technology to be developed so quickly.
Feng Yu remembered in his previous life, Sony was the one who developed this technology and exchanged it with Philips. In the end, they set the initial standards.
The first players produced according to this standard were not called Super VCD players. They were called DVDs. That is to say, the Super VCD and DVD are using the same standard. The only difference was the storage capacity of DVDs was more than the Super VCD players.
In Feng Yu's previous life, there were many people who discovered that their VCD players could not play the same VCD players. That was because other people's VCD players were using the Super VCD players and could read DVDs.
There was another great advantage to this technology, and that was that the storage capacity was increased by several times. In other words, a very clear movie could be stored on one disc, and there was no need to split it into two discs. This saved the trouble of having to change discs if the movie ended abruptly halfway through.
This technology also allowed two discs to store a concert, and one disc could store more than 20 music videos. The consumers would be more willing to buy music discs.
Unknowingly, Feng Yu found himself in conflict with Sony. First, Aiwa had defeated Sony's Walkman. This caused Sony's Walkman business, which had brought them high profits, to shrink. After that, he asked Aiwa to introduce CD players to take over Sony's music player market.
This also caused Nintendo to fall out with Sony, causing Sony's video game business to shrink. To get back their video game business, Sony had no choice but to set up a computer entertainment division to develop CD-ROM video game consoles to compete with Nintendo in the video game market.
If Feng Yu's memory was correct, Sony will introduce the first generation of Playstation, also known as the PlayStation, at the end of this year. After the Walkman, this was one of the most successful electronic products in the world. It had set a record for global sales of more than 100 million units!
Later on, PSP, PS2, PS3, and PS4 were all highly sought after by the people. Every product sold very well.
This year was also Sony's most productive year. In Feng Yu's previous life, Sony was doing well this year. But in this life, Sony was destined to suffer a tragedy. The DVD technology no longer belonged to Sony.
Feng Yu asked Jiang Wanmeng and the rest to contact Fu Guangzheng to apply for the patents and then announce the specifications. This will be the industry standard!
Someone once said that first-class companies sell their standards, second-class companies sell their brands, third-class companies sell their products, and fourth-class companies sell their resources. This shows that setting the industry standard is the most important symbol of a company's status.
Patented technologies can only be used to protect the company, but it will not stop the other party from invading the technology. Sony and the other big companies can easily invade Wind & Rain Electronics's technology and conduct further research on it.
In Feng Yu's previous life, there was competition for this industry standard for many years. Everyone had similar but different technologies and wanted to set it as the industry standard. This included Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard, Pioneer, etc.
In the end, everyone realized that there was no point in fighting. No one can defeat the other without losing anything. Once the two sides fought, the other side might get the upper hand. So, they shook hands and reconciled.
But soon, everyone started to compete on the DVD burner technology. After that, there were many standards for the DVD burner technology.
But in this life, those electronics giants had fallen behind. Wind & Rain Electronics was the first to introduce the VCD player. They had the advantage in the R&D field. For example, Sony is developing Photoshop, Toshiba and other companies are developing digital cameras, and some companies are developing PCs. All these companies cannot focus on one thing.
Wind & Rain Electronics was different. Feng Yu does not want Wind & Rain Electronics to enter the PC industry as he owns Lenovo's shares. Digital cameras will be a huge market in the future. But now, the resolution of digital cameras cannot be compared to film cameras. When the resolution exceeds 1 million, digital cameras will be accepted by the market.
At that time, it will be the end of the century. Wind & Rain Electronics can exchange technologies with others and get the technologies they want.
Half a month later, Wind & Rain Electronics held a press conference in Beijing to announce the specifications of the High Density Multimedia CD format. Wind & Rain Electronics had developed the MPEG-II technology and will introduce the next generation of Super VCD at the end of this year!
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