Chapter 65 Jiang Wanshi and VCD

Jiang Wanshi? Audio-visual products?

He frowned slightly, and the thing VCD suddenly jumped out of Tang Yu's mind, and his mind suddenly became excited. He frowned and carefully looked at Jiang Wanshi to make sure. Tang Yu said to himself, if he remember correctly, wouldn't the inventor of the VCD in the previous life be Jiang Wanshi of An Hui?

Is it that the legendary invention VCD that does not apply for a patent is this slightly depressed person in front of him?

Tang Yu clearly remembers that the father of China's VCD is Wanyan Group in Anhui Province, and this historical Wanyan was founded by Jiang Wanshi and another person named Sun Yansheng?

Thinking of this, Tang Yu couldn't help but be excited.

Tang Yu's excitement has his own reason for excitement.

Speaking of which, this VCD can be said to be the pain of China's home appliance industry. This pain has continued from the original VCD industry to the DVD industry.

Speaking of which, Jiang Wanshi is also a genius. After he learned about MPEG technology in 1992, he thought of VCD from this technology. After continuous experiments, he finally successfully developed VCD in 1993.

Unfortunately, after he developed the VCD, he was short-sighted to think that applying for a patent had no effect and was eager to occupy the market.

After that, Wan Yan was eager to put the product on the market and ignored the problem of patent application. After the initial 1,000 products went offline, almost all of them were purchased and dissected by the world's major electronic enterprises, and Wan Yan spent a lot of money to develop the VCD technology was so naked in the eyes of major electronics giants. . Wan Yan's whole set of technologies based on this, including detection, has been deciphered by everyone.

Wanyan's end was also a bad end. Many VCD manufacturers stepped on Wanyan's body and walked up, such as Zhongshan Aida, Bubugao, Xinke, Xiamenxin, Wanlida, Jinzheng and Xianke.

If it is just the defeat of Wan Yan, it is not enough to make the Chinese people so sad. After all, he can only be blamed for his poor management.

What hurts many people who know the inside story is that because Wan Yan did not apply for a patent at the beginning, most of the VCD industry was occupied by foreign electronics enterprises. Core components such as decoder boards and movements cannot be produced in China and need to be purchased from abroad. The cost of these core components accounts for a high proportion of the cost of the entire VCD. Most of the profits have been plundered by foreign electronic giants.

VCD is the only household appliance invented by Chinese in modern times. It is the only world-leading achievement in the history of consumer electronics. This record has been maintained until 2011 before Tang Yu's rebirth. Moreover, this is probably the only opportunity for China to take the lead in the field of consumer electronics.

Unfortunately, due to Jiang Wanshi's negligence, he did not apply for a patent, and the VCD market ended up with chicken feathers.

Although the blowout growth of the market after 96 made a large number of people make a lot of money, most of it has been monopolized by foreign electronics companies.

It is roughly estimated that the profits of foreign electronics giants will reach tens of billions of yuan.

Moreover, two thousand years later, when China joined the World Trade Organization, there was an incident of the world's major electronic giants jointly suppressing domestic DVD exports on DVD projects. At that time, a large number of domestic DVD products were withheld in Europe. After that, domestic DVD manufacturers had to pay a huge amount of money for it. Patent licensing fee.

Tang Yu's tutor at the university once talked about the case of Wan Yan. At that time, he was heartbroken: if Jiang Wanshi immediately applied for a patent when he developed the first VCD machine; if it was said, the state invested 240 million yuan at that time to regard An Yan as China's V The plan for the production and development base of CD machines has become a reality; if...

In a word, if there is an if, then the development history of VCD machines in China and even the world may be another way of writing - an epic with Chinese people singing the main theme!

At this moment, Tang Yu suddenly saw this legendary figure in front of his eyes, the initiator of the VCD market, and the "revolutionary martyr" on the road of China's digital CD technology development. Tang Yu couldn't help but feel a little unconcealed excitement,

"Mr. Jiang, can you specify the project you are studying? Maybe, maybe I can help you. Sister Menghui may be able to say a few words for Mr. Jiang."

Jiang Wanshi strangely had a large number of this young man with a little excitement. He felt that his reaction was a little violent after hearing his name, but he thought that there was nothing to do anyway, so he stood as a living horse doctor and said to Tang Yu.

"To tell you the truth, my research project began after the American International Radio and Television Technology Exhibition last year. At that time, as the main project in the institute, the group still paid more attention to this technology at the beginning, and the institute applied for 1.2 million research funds from the group..."

"Hang, Mr. Jiang, I want to listen to the details of this project, not your introduction of these things." Tang Yu almost said the word nonsense,

After a pause, "Mr. Jiang just mentioned the American International Radio and Television Technology Exhibition. Is Mr. Jiang's research project inspired by this exhibition? I remember that at the exhibition in 1992, it was hooked with audio-visual and audio-visual products. The most eye-catching thing was C-CUBE's MPEG technology. Is it that Mr. Jiang's project is inspired by this technology?

"You, how do you know?"

Jiang Wanshi was suddenly shocked, but he thought that this was not a secret matter. He had applied for R&D funds from Xieshi Group before, and it was not a big deal to be known by others.

He didn't expect that this young man could say the two words that C-CUBE and MPEG are only known in the industry. These things can't be said casually by laymen, especially a not-known company like skob, which almost no one in China knows. Tang Yu looks just a teenager, at most a high school student, and not like a so-called top student in electronics major.

Seeing Jiang Wanshi's curious face, Tang Yu was afraid of causing misunderstanding and also explained, "I happen to be interested in electronic things. Last year, I specially paid special attention to the American International Radio and Television Technology Exhibition and paid attention to the MPEG technology at that time. At that time, I also sighed, but I didn't expect Mr. Jiang Tianzong's genius to have this. This kind of genius idea is really amazing. Mr. Jiang just continued to say it. Speaking of the topic, Tang Yu also invited Jiang Wanshi to sit down on the first floor of the hotel.

Jiang Wanshi was just worried that Tang Yu didn't understand what was too technical, but he would pay attention to the American International Radio and Television Technology Exhibition. It seemed that he was familiar with the electronic field, but he didn't have this worry. Although I felt a little strange in my heart, I didn't think much about it, so I said at ease,

"I didn't expect that the little brother was still an expert. Since the little brother knows MPEG technology, it can save me a lot of effort."

"Little brother is right. The audio-visual and audio-visual products I studied are developed based on MPRG technology, and the name of the product is temporarily named VCD (VideoCompactDisc). In 1992, I saw MPEG technology in the United States. At that time, I came up with the idea of using MPEG technology to store images and sound on a small CD at the same time to make audio-visual product VCD. At that time, this idea was also supported by Mr. Sun Yansheng, the Chinese chairman of Scropburn, and decided to cooperate. Make consumer electronic products using MPEG technology.

"In March this year, it was originally planned to set up a company with Mr. Sun of Scorp. Later, it was delayed for various reasons on both sides, and the study of the above was not very smooth. The total investment of Hyundai Group and Scorp was about s 1.7 million yuan, and Scorp accounted for 70% of the investment. . However, the key now is that the research results have not come out but they have spent a lot of money. Hyundai Group and Mr. Sun of scorp are unwilling to invest money in research. Recently, Hyundai Group has the intention to cut off some of its business, and its subordinate TV Technology Research Institute is also cutting off the project. That is to say, if I can't get R&D funds, this project that I have invested a lot of power will die..."

Tang Yu smiled secretly in his heart. Jiang Wanshi was probably a talent who could only engage in technology. He told himself that he didn't mention the market prospects and prospects of this kind of product and other things that could impress businessmen. What he said was something that made people listen to. No wonder he would hit a wall everywhere before.

However, it is a little strange in his heart. Tang Yu clearly remembers that the Wanyan Group, the father of the world's VCD, was jointly founded by Jiang Wanshi and Sun Yansheng. The name is still taken from each of them. Now it seems that the legendary Wanyan has not been established yet. What's going on?

Tang Yu doesn't remember whether Wan Yan in her previous life has encountered financial difficulties in the research and development stage, and doesn't know whether Wan Yan was depressed enough to need Jiang Wanshi to raise R&D funds everywhere, let alone how Wan Yan solved such a problem.

Or, what Tang Yu saw now did not happen at all in his previous life?

Although Tang Yu doesn't remember the establishment of Wan Yan in his previous life, he thinks it should have been established in the first half of 1993, because Wan Yan launched a thousand mature products on the market in the second half of 9.3. Now it is July, and the research and development of VCD seems to be far from the results. Obviously, there has been some deviations from the history of the previous life.

With a sigh, you don't think about these problems if you can't remember clearly. Anyway, you have been reborn. The general direction of some things remains unchanged, and there is nothing wrong with the details.

In a word, the arrival of Jiang Wanshi made Tang Yu see an opportunity for the Chinese to sing the main theme in the history of world VCD development.

Seeing that Tang Yu seemed to be meditating, Jiang Wanshi covered up and drank a few sips of water.

In fact, he doesn't have any hope for the young man in front of him. It's not that he looks down on Tang Yu.