Ellington had quietly established the Great Tang's Magic Projection Chamber of Commerce. This was a subsidiary chamber of commerce under the Datang Chamber of Commerce. When it was first established, no one knew what the Magic Projection Chamber of Commerce's business was. They only knew that this newly established chamber of commerce had sent many people over and was openly recruiting employees. Alas, the selection process was extremely strict, and those who were selected were all skilled in a particular field. They were either very talkative, very humorous, or very beautiful.
This matter caused a stir in Ellington's talent market, and countless people began to discuss it in private.
Yes, perhaps some people had already guessed that this newly established chamber of commerce was Prandal's first magically modified television station.
In Prandal, magic projection technology was already rather mature. When Tang En was in Alinx, he had already seen the holographic projection technology being put into use. In this aspect, Prandal was even more advanced than Earth's technology, and it was also much simpler to use.
When Victor said that the Martyr's Palace lacked entertainment and that everyone was bored, Tang En had thought of movies and television shows.
But at the time, he wasn't completely confident that he could convert the technology, so he didn't make any promises. Afterward, he sat down with Estisa, Angus, and the others and began to discuss this topic. Only after they had resolved the key problems did the project finally come to fruition.
When it came to television stations, the most crucial basic technology was the three steps of filming, broadcasting, and receiving. As for the host and program arrangement, those were the soft conditions. Only those three steps were the hard conditions.
On Earth, where everything was based on electromagnetic technology, filming would convert light signals into electrical signals, which would then be transmitted through wired or wireless signals. The television would then receive the signal and restore it back into a picture.
In Prandal, Tang En did not recreate the technology tree of Earth, nor did he use electricity as a resource. Instead, he directly chose the unique natural condition here — magic power — as the foundation of all energy sources.
Therefore, to set up a television station here, it was necessary to convert light signals into mana waves, and then transmit it according to the transmission principle of the magical mobile phone. Finally, it would be restored at the terminal. The principle was similar to the technology on Earth, except that electricity was converted into mana. In practice, there was no need to build a circuit of mana, and it was simpler and more convenient. Tang En sometimes felt that Prandal's current state was like Earth's future. The air was filled with wirelessly transmitted electricity that could be accessed at will, and mobile phones, computers, and vehicles could be charged anytime and anywhere.
In the process of magically modifying the TV station, the most troublesome part was to implement the light-magic signal conversion. Fortunately, Tang En already had a group of experienced and skilled magically modified programmers under him.
They were the group of researchers who participated in the development of the magical mobile phone at the Magical Engineering Research Institute, as well as the high-end programmers of the Einstein Baylen Family under Eustisa — they were playing with soul coding.
In the actual implementation, Eustisa and the others built the first magically modified camera based on the video call technology of the "Libra" magical mobile phone. Not only could it shoot and transmit real-time images, but it could also use the special effect of the photographic crystal to record images, and then output the signal.
Yes, after these guys were inspired by Tang En, they solved the key technology of live broadcast and recording in one go.
After the recording technology was solved, what needed to be solved was the development and production of the "Magic Projection Receiver", which was the home TV.
If it was on earth, from the development and design of the TV to the market, it would take at least a few years. But in Prandal, it was completely different. The development of the Magic Projection Receiver was unexpectedly simple. The key component was the same as the magical mobile phone, which was a decoding and restoration module. Next was a module powered by Magic Crystals. Even with the existence of the holographic projection technology, it could completely change the interface between man and machine. Because of the interference of magic, the holographic projection could even simulate a certain tactile feedback, which was more advanced than touch screens.
Because the basic technology was already mature, as long as it was slightly modified, the Magic Projection Receiver could be produced. Therefore, if they wanted to quickly popularize the home TV, the biggest shackle wasn't the production capacity, but rather the price.
In the beginning, after Fiona heard Tang En's description, she immediately noticed the business opportunity. More importantly, with the development of the economy, this kind of thing would inevitably become an information channel that far surpassed the Big Tang Daily News, which was the best way to control public opinion.
At the same time, this thing would dominate the home entertainment center in the future. The current production capacity couldn't supply everyone, and considering the current average income, Fiona suggested that the price of the Magic Projection Receiver should be set at 10000 gold to satisfy the needs of the high-end market. After all, it was more important to influence the upper class of society than the lower class, so this price could prevent the commoners from fighting over it.
What Tang En considered was that the rapid development of production capacity would inevitably lead to a rapid decline in prices. If the price was too high at the beginning, it would affect the popularity of the product. Therefore, he felt that it was more appropriate to directly cut the price to zero. Anyway, the cost of the technology was almost zero (Estisa and her clansmen didn't need a salary at all, they only needed the Magic Crystals provided by Tang En). Plus, the Astral Base was about to start producing large amounts of resources, so the cost of production materials was negligible. No matter how the price was cut, they would still be able to make a profit.
But Fiona thought that 1000 gold was too low, which was very bad for the brand establishment and market expansion in the future. In the end, after a fierce discussion between the two sides, they decided to set the price at 4999 gold, which was neither too high nor too low.
This price was neither high nor low in the current income situation. Plus, with the discount of the new currency and the discount policy of the Datang Chamber of Commerce, the nobles didn't feel any pressure at all. The merchants could also accept it. Now, even some hardworking commoners could afford it. It was already a very good price.
The Great Tang Magical Furniture Factory had quickly set up a separate workshop dedicated to the production of the Magical Projection Receiver. This thing was basically pieced together from whole modules, and it looked like a small flat box. In the middle was the projector for the Magical Projection, and on both sides were loudspeakers. It was very easy to produce, and the production capacity was also very high. Currently, the daily production could reach five thousand units. As the production line increased and the technology matured, this number would quickly break through ten thousand units and continue to rapidly increase.
Of course, if they wanted to occupy the central position of the living room as soon as possible, it was absolutely not enough to rely on the cheap Magic Projection Receiver. They also needed to match it with a wonderful program that could attract people to watch.
Therefore, the Tang Magic Projection Chamber of Commerce was established. The first director and host, who was also the only person with broadcasting experience, was Marlene. After the little girl learned that she was shouldering a heavy responsibility, she was so excited that she couldn't sleep well for a few days. She kept saying that she wanted to take advantage of Tina and Tang En's date to offer her body to Tang En Majesty to thank him. Unfortunately, Tang En's head was spinning because of the forced marriage. He was not in the mood to have a deeper conversation with Tina.
Tang En was indeed very troubled. Logically speaking, he would rather name this "Tang Magic Projection Chamber of Commerce" as "Prandal Central Radio and Television" or "Prandal Central Radio and Television Company Limited". Unfortunately, the people of Prandal could understand what Magic Projection meant, but not what a television station was. They could understand what a chamber of commerce meant, but not what a limited company was. In order to let them quickly accept new things, Tang En could only rack his brains to think of more appropriate words to describe it, instead of using words from Earth and turning them into Prandal words. (For the reader's convenience, the abbreviations in the text will still be television and television stations.)
This was just a small episode. The more troublesome part was that in order to popularize the magically modified television, as the only person with experience, he had to train the staff of the newly established television station. He had to let them understand what the television station was going to do, what its main responsibilities were, and what its significance was. In order to make it famous and expand its appeal as soon as possible, he had to come up with programs that were attractive enough …
This made Tang En very worried. On Earth, the core of the family had already changed from radio and television to Internet television that could be broadcast on demand. There were all kinds of wonderful programs, and even some private self-media programs were more popular than the television station. However, the problem was that the effect that those programs could achieve was due to various humorous and witty jokes. Those jokes obviously could not be used in Prandal.
Therefore, Tang En could only follow the routine step by step. He first came up with some political programs related to the national economy and the people's livelihood, which was commonly known as the daily news.
Using the resources of the Datang Chamber of Commerce, it was easy to collect the important news that happened in various places every day. In the evening, these news would be summarized at the television station and filtered according to the degree of importance. Then, after editing, it would be broadcasted.
Tang En was very sure that this news program would definitely attract everyone's attention. Because the news in Prandal was too outdated, they could sit at home and watch TV to know what was happening thousands of miles away. It would definitely be very attractive to them.
Then, there was the weather forecast program. The degree of attention to this program would definitely be very high. After all, it was closely related to their lives.
Of course, because there were no supercomputers and meteorological satellites, Tang En certainly could not predict the climate in advance.
But don't forget that this was Prandal. The style of the weather forecast was obviously different from that on Earth …
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