Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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"Please go to the professional service area over there." After the salesperson gave his instructions, he continued to respectfully entertain the two imposing customers, Akio Morita and Norio Oga, "What else do you two need to consult?"

"Then get me a membership and buy a dvhs video recorder." The thoughtful Akio Morita ordered.

At this time, another young man carrying a big travel bag hurriedly walked and said, "Bring me ten boxes of videotapes with handheld cameras."

"Please go over there to pay." After the salesperson wrapped up the video tapes that the other party needed, he carefully warned, "During normal maintenance, please be sure to prevent moisture."

Looking at the extremely compact videotape, Akio Morita moved the corners of his mouth stiffly, and asked slowly, "What is the size of the videotape used by this handheld camera?"

"It is only 92mmx69mmx23mm in size, and it can be watched on an ordinary VHS video recorder through an adapter, but the resolution supported by it is lower." The salesperson took an adapter and demonstrated it for the new member.

"Sure enough, betamax video tapes can hardly be so compact." Akio Morita complimented in a complicated tone.

"You mentioned the key point." After complimenting the salesperson, he asked earnestly...: "We also have the most advanced broadcast-grade svhs product solutions here. Do you need to know about it?"

I have to say that the salesperson's vision is very poisonous, and when they look at Akio Morita and Norio Oga, they are not relieved. And the response of the other party is worthy of his diligence.

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After leaving Akihabara. Akio Morita said with a gloomy face: "Our intelligence department is simply a display. If I hadn't found the vhs format through private channels, no, the svhs format is already so strong."

An embarrassment flashed across Oga's face, and he persuaded him a few words, "The lawsuit between us and Universal Pictures has reached a critical stage, and it is inevitable that our subordinates have been negligent."

Sony developed the video tape format in the 1970s. The dominance in the industry is very strong, and Hollywood’s view of home video recorders tends to be two-tiered. The optimists estimate that it can bring a considerable extra income; the pessimists worry that they are already affected by the impact of television entertainment. The ups and downs, the elusive box office, was further shared.

Among them, Universal Pictures and Disney belonged to the latter. So after Sony introduced the betamax format, it acted first and sued Sony and its distributors in California in the United States for copyright infringement.

This lawsuit can be described as a protracted lawsuit. It has dragged on for about eight years, and it even reached the Supreme Court of the United States.

Sony, an ambitious foreigner, had a very difficult situation in the United States at the beginning. But with the vigorous development of the home video recorder market, especially after the explosive leapfrog worldwide last year. As well as feeling the opportunity to join the betamax camp to exert influence, the situation began to benefit Sony.

This year, the US Supreme Court finally ruled that the video recorder in the public domain did not violate copyright, and Sony was able to get out of the quagmire.

This was originally a happy event, but Akio Morita now sees that the victory of the lawsuit may not effectively increase the market share of his own betamax format. On the contrary, he may have made a wedding dress for the opponent's vhs format, which has more and more obvious advantages. In his heart It's strange to be happy.

Norio Oga understood Morita Akio’s feelings, so he continued: “Judging from the information gathered by the intelligence department in the United States, we are leading our betamax format and launched a fierce offensive against the vhs format. Last year, the price of vhs video recorders dropped. It has gained great popularity when it is below US$1,000. However, copying this trick directly lowered the price to the level of US$895 this year. The opponent can be said to have hurriedly challenged. Perhaps the decisive battle between the betamax format and the vhs format is not timeless. Far."

Akio Morita snorted, "I hope that this moment of decisive battle will not come too early."

Unfortunately, the development of the situation is not determined by Sony at this stage. The more you worry about the piece of cheese on the table falling on the ground, the more it actually falls on the ground.

As soon as Morita Akio and Oga Norio returned to the company headquarters, their subordinates hurriedly sent a document, and their voices trembling reported: "President, President, this is the news from the US branch. The vhs alliance begins. It's a last fight!"

Opening the folder, the first thing you see is a fax of a newspaper. Akio Morita only glanced at it, and he felt as if he had been hit head-on with a bang.

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The protracted videotape format war between betamax and vhs has not only left manufacturers at a loss, but also greatly harmed the rights and interests of consumers.

No one knows when this war will end, and which side the final victory belongs to.

But it is obvious that if this war is allowed to continue, in the end, consumers will have an extremely large number of video tapes and video recorders, which will become obsolete products.

In order to avoid the chaos caused by the vicious competition in the video tape market in the 1970s, Epson, Panasonic, Sharp, Walmart, United American, MGM, Twentieth Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, Warner, Paramount, and CNN Nearly 60 companies including news network, including equipment manufacturing, channel distribution, and program content provision, have reached an agreement that from now on, only the vhs format is supported.

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According to the analysis of performance observers, the current lineup of the betamax alliance, including the latest ones, has only 13 companies. This unlucky number seems to imply a bleak prospect.

Epson and Yu Yu hurriedly set off the table to advance this videotape format war to the final stage. The background is the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that the use of videotapes in the public domain does not infringe copyright. There is no legal risk in the development of the home video recorder industry.

Facing the aggressive trend of lowering the price of betamax video recorders to below $900 to gain market share. Epson and apparently do not want to be dragged into the quagmire of a stalemate. Instead, I intend to make a quick decision.

Epson, who led the development of the vhs upgrade format svhs, publicly stated: End this unnecessary dispute due to the self-interest of businesses as soon as possible, so that everyone can concentrate their energy and resources to develop the next generation of more advanced digital home entertainment systems for families all over the world. .

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After finally calming down, Akio Morita turned his eyes to the dvhs video recorder manual he had just put on the table and muttered to himself: "Tang Huan's ultimate goal in the field of home entertainment, is it digital content?"

"This dvhs format should be a test product produced by Tang Huan himself." Norixiong Oga, who also read the document, said in deep thought: "After joining the cdda alliance the year before, he tried to pull us into the alliance that implements video functions on cd. , But because the terms are not in our interest. In addition, the goal of completely replacing the status of video tapes and laser discs is very ridiculous. In the end, this invitation is no more. Now it seems that Tang Huan has not given up this effort. The dvhs format Realizing the digital access of audio and video on video tapes is obviously preparing for the transition to a full-scale shift."

"Contact Tang Huan immediately to learn about the latest developments in this alliance. We can't get out of the game anymore." Akio Morita said with blinking eyes.

Hearing Akio Morita uttering the words "out of the game", Norio Oga couldn't help sinking in his heart and muttered to himself, "Is the president planning to give up in the betamax and vhs videotape format war?"

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Tang Huan is not so easy to find. He is also very versatile in Japan. For example, the consultant team under his team wanted to analyze the successful case of the dancing machine, and he wanted to use this to further understand the mentality of the Japanese from the bottom to the elite at this stage. After all, one more point of mastery may mean another point of business opportunities.

In fact, Tang Huan was quite surprised by the booming sales of dancing machines in Japan. His original intention was only to create an opportunity, but he did not expect that the dancing machine would become the main decisive force for the expansion of the second-generation Cassidy game console market.

Most people think that the success of the dance machine is a phenomenon, but as the information is further summarized, Tang Huan noticed that there are some inevitable factors.

Take the Japanese women who are the main consumers of dancing machines. After being driven by popular idols and devoting themselves to dancing machine games, they often feel that their depression of being suppressed by the tradition of male superiority and female inferiority seems to have been completely released.

Unexpectedly, the dancing machine turned out to be a symbol of women's liberation. Sure enough, the highest level of game making is to rise to the level of culture.

Tang Huan, who laughed at it, went to visit the Japanese branch of Warner and Polygram wherever he was happy. Unexpectedly, several well-known brokerage companies were moved by the news, and they sent their most popular female artists to invite him to participate in the various events. Kind of special party.

However, Tang Huan still has more important banquets to attend. Japan’s current Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Koizumi Hikosaburo invited him to dinner in the name of business. The attendees were mainly representatives of some Japanese semiconductor companies.

The ongoing Japan-U.S. semiconductor war is a major focus of the Japan-U.S. trade friction. Tang Huan’s companies have the largest demand for memory in the world. The leading industry trend is very obvious. It has a considerable impact on the proportion of the semiconductor trade volume between the two countries, so there are many articles to do in it.

In addition, there were two other political figures to accompany the banquet, one is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs Shintaro Abe, and the other is the current Minister of Finance Takeshita Takeshita.

Therefore, the specifications of this banquet are definitely high enough to give enough face to the richest man. You know, Japan is a world economic power. The three ministers of state in the cabinet of Yasuhiro Nakasone, who hold real power, are actually comparable to the heads of small countries. Therefore, Tang Huan has done his homework accordingly.

Sun Zhengyi, who was accompanying him, seemed a little nervous and excited while sitting in the car. This is also natural. After all, as a Korean, it is very difficult to squeeze into the upper class in Japan. He does not yet possess Japanese nationality.

Seeing Tang Huan throwing two blue pills into his mouth, chewing them, and then taking a bottle of water and drank his head up, Sun Zhengyi subconsciously asked, "How do you eat Viagra?"

After coughing violently for a while, Tang Huan replied dumbly, "Is this a good stomach digestion tablet? After coming to Japan, he will eat the cooked and raw ones, and the sweet and spicy ones, and he will have to drink for a while. I am doing maintenance."

Sun Zhengyi smiled embarrassedly, "I was a little distracted just now. I saw the blue pill and my first reaction was Viagra, which had been out of stock recently.

"It seems that I have to make someone change the packaging of Jianweixiaoshi Tablets, so many colors are not used, how can they match the blue." Tang Huan wiped the water off his shirt with a handkerchief, annoyed. Muttering.

"Do you want to change clothes?" Sun Zhengyi reminded apologetically.

"Forget it, it's too much trouble." Tang Huan waved his hand disapprovingly, "Besides, even if I don't want to be particular, others can't tell me why I came, Silicon Valley upstarts."

At this time, when the car arrived, Tang Huan took another sip of water to moisturize his throat, and then pushed the door to get out of the car. A breeze blew, and the handkerchief in his hand fell out inadvertently and was blown out for several steps.

A young man who was responsible for welcoming ran over, picked up the handkerchief, and respectfully returned it back, "Mr. Tang, your handkerchief."

"Thank you." Tang Huan took it, folded it twice, and put it in his suit pocket, but when his eyes passed by the other party, he couldn't help being taken aback, "You are..."

"Hello, Mr. Tang, this is Shinzo Abe, my father's Minister of Foreign Affairs Shintaro Abe, I am hereby specially waiting for your ride." Shinzo Abe hurriedly introduced himself.

"What I said, why is the posture of a trot so charming just now!" Tang Huan muttered in his heart, then smiled and nodded, "Fortunately, fortunately, Mr. Abe's family history, there will be no limit to the way ahead. "

Tang Huan didn’t just say it casually. You should know that Shinzo Abe’s father Shintaro Abe ~www.wuxiaspot.com~, Takeshita Toku, and Miyazawa Kiichi were also called the three leaders of Japanese politics and governance, and his grandfather. Nobusuke Kishi served as Prime Minister of Japan in the 1950s, and his grand uncle Ei Sato served as Prime Minister of Japan in the 1960s, both of whom were extremely influential. The Japanese political ecology has a distinctive feature, that is, family inheritance. Shintaro Abe's status today is not unrelated to the profound political assets possessed by his adopted father-in-law, Kishi Nobusuke.

"Mr. Tang passed the award, everyone is already waiting for you inside." Shinzo Abe said as he led the way.

"Has Abe stepped into the political arena now?" Tang Huan asked curiously. (To be continued.)

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