Chapter 532

In the VCD era, there is another character who must be mentioned, the Director of the Planning Division of the Computer Development Center of the Ministry of Electronics, Zhao Zhenmin.

After Wan Yan produced the first VCD player, he realized that this was a potentially huge market.

But he didn't enter the VCD whole machine market like others, but with superhuman business vision and strategic awareness, he entered the field of VCD core technology decoding boards. In just one year, he broke through key technologies and was the first to pass the Ministry of Electronics appraisal.

Then he established Tianli Electronics Company, and in sales, it broke one yuan, becoming the first enterprise in China to be involved in the VCD field to gain huge profits, and maintained synchronization with the most advanced level in technology development.

Tianli not only became the largest producer of decoding boards, but more importantly, became the enterprise that mastered the most mature VCD core technology.

And the person Zhou Andong wants to find is Zhao Zhenmin, because he wants to enter the computer and mobile phone fields to stir things up, and decoding technology is something that absolutely cannot be missed.

The next evening, a young man came to the hospital and found Zhou Andong.

"Factory Director Zhou, this is the VCD prototype." The young man handed a bag he was carrying to Zhou Andong.

Zhou Andong took it: "You haven't eaten yet, right? Let's go eat first, then go to the hotel to open a room to rest, play well in Beijing for a few days before going back."

The young man said: "I have to go back tomorrow, the ticket is already bought."

"What's the rush?" Zhou Andong said with dissatisfaction: "I'll tell your boss, play here for two days."

The young man shook his head: "Forget it, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future."

"Alright then!" Zhou Andong nodded, "Let's go eat."

After the two finished eating, Zhou Andong opened a room for the young man at the hotel, then walked quickly back to the hospital, opened the bag, took out the tightly wrapped VCD, and inside, besides a remote control, there was also a thick stack of technical data.

Zhou Andong took it out and looked at it, then laughed. Lao Meng is really decent, he even brought me the technical data.

But he could also guess Lao Meng's thoughts. The patent was sold to you, why not be generous and bring all the technical data to you.

"What is this?"

Lao Si ran in from outside, curiously lying on the coffee table looking at it.

Yuan Liying followed in and also came over to take a look.

Zhou Andong said: "This is good stuff, Big Brother will rely on this to earn dowry money for you."

Lao Si didn't know what a dowry was, but she understood the last word 'money', blinked her big eyes, and looked at Zhou Andong.

"Big Brother, are you going to sell this to earn money for me?"

"Yes!" Zhou Andong nodded: "Sell this to earn money for you."

"Ha!" Lao Si grinned and laughed, then stretched out her small arms, hugged Yang Luo's neck, and kissed him on the face, leaving a face full of saliva.

Zhou Andong wiped it off with his hand in disgust, and Lao Si giggled foolishly.

Yuan Liying asked: "Have you eaten?"

"I've finished eating." Zhou Andong studied it for a while, connected the VCD to the TV, then plugged in the power, and inserted the disc.

A very special prelude sounded, and immediately after, a delicate and beautiful girl carrying a guitar appeared on the screen.

"My music teacher is my dad, for twenty years he has been in the national factory, mom used to sing Pingju, she always complained about not catching up with good times..."

"Ha?" Lao Si stared at the TV, then looked at the VCD.

Hearing the singing, Yuan Liying came out of the kitchen, looked at the VCD and said: "Is this a VCR?"

Zhou Andong said: "It's not a VCR, but it's the same as a VCR, it can play movies and songs, and its functions are much more powerful than a VCR. What it plays is not a videotape, but this kind of optical disc."

Yuan Liying carefully took the optical disc from Zhou Andong's hand: "This thing must be very expensive."

Zhou Andong nodded: "Very expensive!"

Yuan Liying said: "You just waste money, what are you buying this broken thing for?"

Zhou Andong laughed out loud, and Yuan Liying said with dissatisfaction: "What are you laughing at, did I say something wrong?"

Zhou Andong hugged Yuan Liying's shoulder: "Mom, right now this thing, there is only this one in the whole world, worth tens of billions."

"Ah?" Yuan Liying was startled, and said nervously: "Then where did you get it?"

Zhou Andong said: "Developed by a friend's company, I bought their technology."

"1997 come quickly, how are the Yaohan clothes really. 1997 come quickly, I can go to Hong Kong. 1997 come quickly, let me stand in the Hung Hom Stadium, 1997 come quickly, go to the midnight show with him, du..."

Yuan Liying listened to the song, looked at the TV screen, then proudly looked at her son, and walked to the kitchen.

Zhou Andong picked up the phone and called Tang Lin: "Come to the hospital immediately, there's an urgent matter."

"Okay!" Tang Lin didn't ask, agreed, and hung up the phone.

Immediately after, Zhou Andong called Seeing Jian Qiu, no one answered, checked the time, it was late, probably went out to play.

Then he paged Wu Huilin, and the phone rang in less than ten minutes.

Zhou Andong picked up the phone, and Seeing Jian Qiu's voice came: "So urgent?"

Zhou Andong said: "VCD has been developed."

Seeing Jian Qiu was not surprised: "I know, Huilin just told me that the VCD patents have all been applied for, totaling 779 items."

Zhou Andong was very surprised. That Li Yuhua is indeed very professional, probably already developed the VCD patents to the extreme. Some technologies of future DVDs might not be able to bypass them.

Thinking of DVD, Zhou Andong couldn't help but want to curse. Starting from 2002, the export of domestic DVDs was constantly robbed by foreign patent trolls.

From the initial one yuan, it rose to more than twenty US dollars, and the number of enterprises collecting patent fees also changed from the initial one to dozens. And the selling price of a DVD was only forty US dollars.

Immediately after, the American EG professional technology management company once again collected core patent fees from Chinese DVD enterprises. Because the EG-2 patent portfolio is different from the payment patent fee agreement signed by China with the previous DVD patent alliance.

Therefore, as long as Chinese DVD enterprises used technology involving EG-2 in their products, they must pay patent fees to the EG professional technology management company again.

After six years of arduous negotiations, for DVDs produced after July, each unit must pay another two yuan in intellectual property fees to the American EG professional technology management company.

What made Zhou Andong angry was right here, EG technology, itself was Wan Yan's.

Because Lao Meng didn't pay attention, the profits of Chinese DVD enterprises were almost all snatched away by foreign patent trolls. In response to this situation, many domestic traditional DVD enterprises started to transform.

Becoming OEM factories for foreign enterprises, shifting from production enterprises to processing trade. At the same time, large profits were all plundered by Western capital.

Now, Zhou Andong absolutely cannot let such things happen again. He wants to set up his own R&D department to develop DVD.

Saying more, DVD is just an upgraded version of VCD. With VCD technology, developing DVD is not a difficult thing.