Chapter 1721: Must Have Own Technology

Zhou Andong tapped his fingers lightly on the bar: "Tell me, what can I help with."

Old Meng said: "I don't know Zhao Zhenmin, Yuzhou has cooperation with him, you should be very familiar with him, right."

"Okay!" Zhou Andong understood: "You go talk, I will call him, and guarantee to give you a reasonable price."

Old Meng asked: "Are you in Jiangzhou or Jingcheng?"

Last year, telecom opened the caller ID function, but except for government departments and some state-owned enterprises, very few people opened it.

Because opening caller ID, not only do you have to pay monthly rent every month, but you also have to replace high-end telephones, which is also a not-small expense for individuals and private enterprises.

Obviously, the Jingcheng Hotel did not open caller ID, which made Zhou Andong complain in his heart.

Jingcheng Hotel, the reputation is so big, has received many international celebrities, actually does not open caller ID, it is really a bit unreasonable.

"I am in Dongguan." Zhou Andong said helplessly: "Probably go back on the 9th, to attend a relatively important party."

Old Meng immediately asked: "Top Ten Outstanding Youth Party?"

Zhou Andong asked: "Are you attending too?"

"Me?" Old Meng said helplessly: "This year just happened to be stuck on the age. If it was last year, I might have a chance."

"What a pity." Zhou Andong said: "Then that's it, I will call Zhao Zhenmin immediately."

"Okay!" Old Meng agreed and hung up the phone.

Zhou Andong dialed Zhao Zhenmin again: "President Zhao, I miss you to death."

Zhao Zhenmin was stunned, and then reacted, laughing heartily.

"Fortunately, my ears are good, and I heard your voice, otherwise I would have nightmares at night."

Zhou Andong also followed with a laugh: "Wan Yan contacted you, right."

"Contacted." Zhao Zhenmin said: "The appointment is to meet today."

Zhou Andong said: "We are all our own people, give them a reasonable price. The VCD market is very large, and the days of making money are still ahead."

"Understood!" Zhao Zhenmin had absolute trust in Zhou Andong: "It's just that our decoder board uses C-CUBE's decoder chip. If we cooperate with Wan Yan, I'm afraid C-CUBE will block us."

Speaking of this, Zhao Zhenmin couldn't help but complain: "I really don't know what Old Meng is thinking. Originally, they spent huge sums of money to entrust C-CUBE to develop decoder chip technology, but they didn't sign a transfer agreement, and now they are being held by others."

Zhou Andong said with a smile: "We already have MPEG compression technology. When we released the DVD standard, we also released MPEG2 and MPEG3, and applied for patents."

"It's just that the cost of producing decoder chips ourselves is too high, so it's more cost-effective to buy from them. If they want to block us, it doesn't matter, at worst we'll build it ourselves."

If you look at the development history of China's VCD from a global perspective, China became the number one VCD country, not because of its strength, but because it seized an opportunity.

That is, when Wan Yan VCD went on the market last year, the Japanese made a strategic mistake. That is, they thought VCD was a transitional product between VCR and DVD.

Its technical life is only four or five years, and the market potential is limited. Besides, in the Japanese market, LD and VCD functions are basically similar, and the market is booming, so there is no need to vigorously develop VCD.

Therefore, Sony, including Toshiba, revised their strategy and fully developed DVD, while VCD was just a transitional product for them to open the Chinese market, which left a relatively pure space for the development of domestic VCD.

This is also why, after Yuzhou Technology released the DVD standard, Sony was so angry, and tried every means to calculate Yuzhou Technology, preventing Yuzhou Technology from continuing to develop DVD.

Zhao Zhenmin was still very worried and said: "I also believe that the future VCD market will be very large, but we only mastered two of the core technologies of VCD, which are MPEG compression technology and decoder board."

"But there is still the most important technology, which is the movement. Now it is in the hands of Sony, Hitachi, and Philips. Once they form an alliance, we will still be controlled by others."

Zhou Andong nodded silently. Indeed, in the previous life, although China was a major VCD producer, it was not a powerful country.

VCD's main components such as decoder chips, decoder boards, movements, etc., all relied on imports.

And they did encounter their joint blockade, monopolizing the Chinese market.

"So," Zhou Andong said: "We must clearly realize that if we want to become the world's largest VCD power, we must possess our own technology, otherwise we will definitely be controlled by others."

Zhao Zhenmin's voice immediately increased by a degree: "Chairman Zhou, you mean, Yuzhou Technology is already developing movements?"

"Yes!" Zhou Andong said confidently: "Laser technology, we are not worse than foreign countries, but because the country is too poor, various research institutes have no money and stopped research."

"However, the technology is still there, those experts are still there, and they have all been brought to Yuzhou Technology. I believe there will be results soon. As long as the optical head is developed, the components and servo circuits will not be a problem."

The reason why Zhou Andong dared to release the DVD standard and was not afraid of Sony, Hitachi, and Philips strangling him was because of this.

If you are harmonious, then we will play together, and I will buy chips and movements from you.

If you are arrogant, then I'm sorry, my temper is not very good, then I will play by myself.

Hearing Zhou Andong's words, Zhao Zhenmin couldn't help laughing, he was really happy.

"I really look forward to the successful development of our own movement. By then, I will also have confidence."

"This day will not be too far away." Zhou Andong said: "If it's fast, you can hear good news this year."

"Beep beep beep beep..."

Just as Zhou Andong's words fell, the pager rang. He picked it up and looked, it was from Liu Qingjun's office.

"Liu Qingjun paged me, I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, let's just leave it at that."

Zhou Andong hung up the phone and dialed Liu Qingjun again.

"Old Liu, what's the matter."

Liu Qingjun said excitedly: "Chairman, VCD optical head, we have broken through the most critical technology."

Zhou Andong was stunned, and then laughed heartily: "Just now I was chatting with Zhao Zhenmin about this matter, and your pager came over. How long has it been, and you have broken through the critical technology."

"This is thanks to the old director." Liu Qingjun said: "We have mastered three critical VCD technologies, and another one is the movement."

"We have released the DVD standard, and the movement technology is in the hands of Sony, Hitachi, and Philips. As long as our DVD goes on the market, they will definitely block us."

"So I was anxious in my heart, so I found the old director to talk about this matter. Then, the old director contacted Shanghai, Lin Zunqi, Deputy Director of the High-Power Laser Physics National Laboratory of the Optical Machinery Institute."

"We also sent more than 300 experts and scientific researchers to Shanghai to cooperate with Professor Lin Zunqi's team at the Optical Machinery Institute, and broke through the critical technology in just two months."

Zhou Andong had to sigh in his heart that the older generation of scientific researchers in China is really awesome.

Just like when developing the atomic bomb, when it was poor and blank, it was developed in five years.

And developing the hydrogen bomb only took more than two years. No country in the world could do it, but the Chinese did it. ===== CHAPTER 1722 =====