Chapter 837 Kirin Electronics’ First Step
The two movies written by Yin Jun have basically shown their box office capabilities after their first weekend performances.
"The Story of Hu Yue" took in a box office of 3.2 million in the four days of the weekend. This result is already considered good among the movies released this year. Everyone estimates that its local box office is about 13 million.
no way.
It is best for literary and artistic films to have a four-week release period, which is not as good as commercial blockbusters. If they are good, they can have a six-week release period.
It's just that "The Story of Hu Yue" is said to be negotiating well in other places, especially Baodao, the hometown of literary films. Xu Anhua has continued to win awards in Baodao for "Crazy Heist" and "Autumn Fairy Tale". Baodao people are very interested in She likes her work so much that she is said to have offered a buyout price of HK$3 million.
The second film, Changhe Company's "The Golden Guard", was unsurprisingly a success at the box office. It grossed HK$3.8 million in the three days of the first weekend, setting a new high since Chuck began filming.
Coupled with the overwhelming reputation and the amazing martial arts scenes, industry insiders estimate that it will fetch at least 18 million Hong Kong dollars, and may not exceed 20 million, becoming another prominent upstart.
Shaw Brothers has huge profit expectations in this. They have now actively contacted theaters in other places, including Shaw Brothers' Nanyang Cinemas, including several cooperative theaters, and are preparing to promote them on a large scale. , making "Jinyiwei" popular throughout Asia.
According to the rules of Yin Jun's movies in the past, the results of "Jinyiwei" will definitely not be bad.
Chuck's film company became an instant success. He couldn't hold it any longer and held a celebration party on Monday night. He invited many celebrities in the entertainment industry to come there, and even invited Yin Jun.
But Yin Jun will definitely not go there. Being drunk once is enough to wake him up. It will offend others if he goes without drinking, so it is better not to go.
Sister Hong's paging and phone calls are still not getting through very well.
Yin Jun had now figured out a little bit of her thoughts, so he left it to her.
Hui Yinghong is a woman who advocates self-esteem and has a strong desire for control. Yin Jun doesn't want to force her, he can only let her do whatever she wants.
On Tuesday morning, Jian Wengle came to Yin Jun excitedly.
It can be seen from his happy expression that the Chinese pager is available.
So, before he could speak, Yin Jun asked, "What? Has it been developed?"
Jian Wenle smiled and said, "Young Master Jun, do you already know?"
"It's not that I know, it's that you have never been to my place before, and now you come here with a smile on your face. Could it be a bad thing?" Yin Jun said with a smile.
"Haha, yes, we have finished the Chinese pager system." Jian Wenle excitedly took out a pager from the box in his hand, "Master Jun, take a look!"
The pagers on the market today are all pagers purchased by the British Telegraph Office from the British company Vodafone.
Of course, Vodafone is certainly not the only one making pagers on the market.
Since Bell Labs invented the pager in 1947, many communications companies around the world have been making pagers.
The technical content of this thing is not high, and it has already passed the patent protection period. Generally, second-rate foreign manufacturers can make it.
For now, Vodafone, Alcatel, Ericsson, Motorola, Sanyo, Panasonic and other companies are doing it.
However, just like mobile phone manufacturers' needs for communication networks, pagers are also highly dependent on each signal tower.
Without a cell tower to send and receive signals, a pager is useless.
Therefore, Dadong Cable and Telegraph Bureau had no fear of raising the price of pagers to a very expensive level. Just like that, countless users flocked to it.
At the end of March, they announced that they had 50,000 users.
Considering that they only started selling it at the end of December, and that there are only less than 6 million people in Xiangjiang, this number is already very shocking.
From the selling price of pagers alone, they have sales of about 180 million.
Not to mention the paging usage fee of 100 per person per month, that’s 5 million!
There is one company in Hong Kong. How many companies can earn 5 million a month?
If they were asked to increase the number of pager users to 500,000, their monthly income would be 50 million, which is simply a money grab!
Of course, we can't just see thieves eating meat without seeing thieves being beaten.
Dadong Cable and Telegraph Bureau previously spent hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars to install 18 base stations in Hong Kong, and there are also various maintenance costs, which are all expenses.
But this move is the most powerful because they have already grasped the source.
Later, almost every one of the dozens of large and small paging companies in Hong Kong used the base station signals of the Xiangjiang Telephone Company, which merged with Dadong Telegraph Office. This means that no matter how the companies below compete, the one who will profit in the end must be This is a monopoly company.
As of now, the Heung Kong Telephone Company has not stepped in. Of course, it will be acquired by the Taitung Cable and Telegraph Company in a few years. It is no wonder that the Taitung Cable and Telegraph Company is living alone.
Capital is like this. It can be arbitrary if it can, and it doesn’t understand what sharing is.
When there is really no other way, they will slowly release this authority and let other paging companies rent their signal tower frequency bands for paging services.
At this time, they were the only ones making pagers, and the Dadong Telegraph Bureau was definitely not willing to share profits with others.
If you want to develop a Chinese pager, you have to think of a way.
Yin Jun turned on the Chinese pager while thinking about it.
The Chinese pager in front of me is the Vodafone one bought from the market.
It's a bit boxy, not ugly, but definitely not good-looking.
The most beautiful pager Yin Jun has ever seen is Motorola's "Fire Phoenix". Its appearance is very good even in 2020.
The sleek industrial design, matte black gloss, and easy-to-use button design made Yin Jun marvel at the brains of Motorola designers when he saw it online.
Do you think that if they still maintain such an industrial aesthetic design in the mobile phone industry in the future, will they still be pressed to the ground and rubbed repeatedly by Nokia?
Come back to the present.
At present, the appearance of the pager is not so important, but its function is more important.
This generation of pagers still has a diode screen, which is only as wide as a finger. When you open it, the words "Kirin Electronics welcomes you to use Chinese pagers" slide across from left to right.
"We built a careful base station in the laboratory, and basically there is no problem in transmitting all Chinese fonts." Jian Wenle said, "We have also done extreme tests, and the function is not unstable compared to the original one. But the power consumption is faster, and it uses about 30% more points than the digital one. The digital one can usually be used for a week, but it can only be used for 3 days at most, which makes it more inconvenient."
"It doesn't matter." Yin Jun checked the simple button functions inside and said smoothly, "Xiangjiang is full of small retail stores. It's easy to buy batteries, and a battery doesn't take up much space. Prepare in advance for anything. Two or three, it won’t be a problem.”
People from Xiangjiang are one of the people Yin Jun has seen who are very capable of overcoming difficulties.
In addition, this place is densely populated and the urban area is small. Where is there no place to replenish the battery?
Even if the technology has not developed yet, after a few upgrades, the battery of the Chinese pager can still be used for about ten days.
After experimenting with the function for a while, Yin Jun put down the pager, raised his head and asked Jian Wenle: "Are you ready to do what you want to do now?"
"Me?" Jian Wenle said in surprise, "Aren't I just in charge of development?"
"Sometimes talents need to be versatile." Yin Jun said with a smile, "Just tell me what you think."
Jian Wenle was not only a computer expert, he also invented the Chinese pager system and finally established a company, which was pretty good.
Yin Jun wanted to train him to be more capable, so he naturally had to inspire him more.
After Jian Wenle heard this, he hesitated for a while and then said: "If it were me, I would go to nearby Japan to find a place where pagers can be made, customize a batch of pagers myself, and then mass-produce them. Quality test. If it passes the test, take it back and see if we can rent the base station network of Dadong Telegraph Bureau and build a Chinese paging station."
"Why would Dadong Telegraph Bureau let you occupy their network and share their profits? Isn't it good for them to do it themselves?" Yin Jun asked in return.
"this……"
Jian Wenle really didn't think of this and felt a little dazed.
Yin Jun smiled and said, "After applying for patents all over the world, I will do as you say! But after the quality is qualified, I will prepare 10,000 units first, take them to Singapore, and ask Singtel if they want them."
"Singtel?" Jian Wenle asked curiously, "Do they have paging service?"
"No!" Yin Jun said simply, "That's why I ask you to promote it! Isn't Xiangjiang a very successful example? They like high technology so much, so naturally they won't fall behind. If you don't go, maybe others will We started doing this business this year.”
"Then...I'll give it a try."
Seeing Yin Jun's resolute attitude, Jian Wenle had no choice but to bite the bullet and agree.
"After the order in Singapore is settled, you can go to Baodao and ask them if they have such plans." Yin Jun said, "You might as well tell them that patent protection is for 15-20 years. If you want to make money earlier, you might as well go with We work well together.”
"Should we join a joint venture with them, or just sell machines?" Jian Wengle asked.
"Joint venture? You dare to think about it." Yin Jun said with a smile, "In this way, we have to rely on Singapore to find a way out, and you still want to get a share of the pie in the service stage. Well, you remember, we will talk about Hong Kong after Treasure Island. , Dadong Cable and Telegraph Bureau will not let go of this opportunity to further expand the market, and after knowing that we will not let them suppress us, they should also give in. "
"I'll do all the talking?" Jian Wengle swallowed.
"Do you want me to go?" Yin Jun asked.
"Okay... okay, I understand!" Jian Wenle's face turned red and she quickly shut up.
The boss has to do everything, so what else do you need to do?
"After completing the pager, you will begin to develop cellular communication technology." Yin Jun said, "Almost before the first half of the year, technology will be purchased one after another. I allow you to do all kinds of expansion as much as possible, including recruiting talents and Buy equipment. Cellular mobile phones will definitely be the trend in the future, and I’m still waiting for you to make this thing as soon as possible!”
"Yes, we will work hard!" Jian Wenle was excited when he heard this.
Doing something difficult like this is what technicians love most!
Yin Jun had previously shown him a lot of information about the mobile phone invented by Motorola.
He knew that Yin Jun wanted to use hardware and software together.
If we can come up with a qualified commercial cellular mobile phone before Motorola, that will definitely be the pride of Xiangjiang electronics professionals! !