Chapter 645: Two Heroes

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They all complied with Feng Yu's request, Feng Yu will naturally give them some benefits, otherwise no one will cooperate with Feng Yu again, for example, they can withdraw at the same time, then each family only needs to pay 40 million US dollars, and then go crazy These companies are definitely not easy to mess with, and it is very likely that both sides will suffer, and they will eventually be taken advantage of by Dongzhi and Sony.

"From the beginning of next month, the patent fee for each vcd will be halved, and will be reduced by five dollars every year thereafter until the patent fee is zero." Feng Yu announced loudly.

The patent fee is halved, and each unit costs 25 dollars, and the patent fee can still be collected for five years. In fact, it will take less than five years, and in about three years, the technology of DVDs will have matured, and VCDs will become a thing of the past.

This condition seems to be very good, but in fact, it is useless at all. But Feng Yu has already given the conditions of halving the patent fee and reducing it year by year. What else can others say? Requirements continue to decrease? Or just give them free access? Only a fool would agree to such a condition.

If they did bring it up, they were insincere.

So they could only acquiesce to this condition, but the companies in the island country were still not satisfied, and proposed another condition, that is, the price of vcd cannot be lowered this year. If it is lowered further, they will have no profit or even lose money.

Now a vcd, after reducing the patent license fee, they only have a profit of about 20 dollars, which is already very low.

Feng Yu also agreed to this point, and he didn't want the price of vcd to be too low, which would also make him lose a lot of money. And for the time being, these people are needed to implement the dvd standard. Besides, I just promised them that the price will not drop this year, but it can still be lowered next year.

And now the main promotion is super vcd, the profit is several times that of ordinary vcd, and the sales volume is not bad. The second generation of super vcds will be launched next year, and ordinary vcds will have nothing to do.

Even if I really want to hit these companies, I can lower the price of super vcds, and it will also make them vomit blood!

but now. It's not the time yet, aren't Sony and the others still stiffening up?

When the dvd forum held a meeting and attracted more than 30 large consumer electronics companies in the world to join and set their headquarters in Huaxia Hefei, Sony and the others panicked.

This is an invitation letter to the dvd forum. Why didn't they receive it? In the world's consumer electronics industry, they are also very powerful, okay? Which company issued this letter of request?

Headquartered in Huaxia Hefei,

So the initiator is Fengyu Electronics? Such an unranked company can become the initiator with two patented technologies? Are those big companies stupid? You actually went and joined this company?

They looked at the list of member companies of the forum again, and found that there were software giants like Microsoft and Tata Consulting. What does this have to do with you?

Although they don't want to admit it. But I have to say that after those companies united and established this dvd forum, they were very embarrassing.

The recording standards of DVD itself are divided into three categories and five specifications, among which dvd+r/rw is the recording specification proposed by Fengyu Electronics, dvd-r/rw is the specification introduced by Pioneer Company, and the specification introduced by Dongzhi Company is For dvd-ra where rw are theoretical specifications. No actual research has been successful yet, and ra will eventually be replaced by ro.

In fact, aiwa company is still researching dvd-audio, not only dvd music drive, Fengyu Electronics is still researching dvd-video. Both dvd video drives, but these have not been successful and cannot be implemented for the time being.

But it is the specifications of dvd+r, dvd-r, and dvd-ra that constitute the current competition for recording standards. Originally, dvd+r was at a disadvantage, with the least number of companies following this standard, and the most companies following Dongzhi's ra standard.

but now. Everything has changed, and dvd+r is about to become the mainstream, so the other two standards and derived specifications will be difficult to implement.

It just so happens that they themselves have joined forces to fight against the wind and rain. It was still in an advantage at first, but suddenly the advantage was reversed.

As far as the current plan is concerned, only the two of them jointly promote a DVD recording standard, otherwise they will fail completely.

But now the question arises again, which standard should be implemented?

The two parties are just cooperating, but cooperation must be equal. We are both big companies with good technology. There is no reason to implement the other party's standards and give up our own standards, right?

So Dongzhi, Sony, Pioneer, Hewlett-Packard and other companies gathered together to discuss a solution with the same purpose of making the other party compromise.

Their ideas are exactly the same. Now if they are separated, they will inevitably fail, and if they cooperate, they can continue to fight. Whoever can't bear the concession first will fail.

Dongzhi cooperates with Sony, and Sony has a large optical disc production line, and has Sony-Columbia Films and Time-Warner, and Dongzhi is a shareholder of Time-Warner.

And Pioneer also has a large-scale optical disc production line, as well as the support of Hewlett-Packard, which is the world's top in the application of laser technology. Moreover, HP also has a computer company, which is also the world's top computer company, and it attaches great importance to the future development of DVD drives.

The two sides have launched in-depth negotiations, but they must pursue speed. Because they know that the sooner they unite and determine the standards, the sooner they can start technical cooperation and fight against the companies in the dvd forum.

In the end, it was Hewlett-Packard who first made a concession and asked for the DVD drive technology to be shared with their company for free, and then turned to support Dongzhi Company, so Pioneer Company was left behind.

In order not to be kicked out, they also had to agree to temporarily implement the dvd-ra standard and give up the promotion of the dvd-r standard, but they will not give up research.

So they set their direction and decided to follow the example of the dvd forum and set up an alliance called dvdalliance (dvd alliance). Do tech research to counter dvd forums.

However, most of the companies that have advantages in dvd technology have joined the dvd forum, and they can win over only some second-tier companies, but the scale has finally increased, which is much better than only a few companies joining.

The dvd alliance has just been established, and immediately announced that it will continue to research and promote dvd-ra standards, and declares that dvd-ra standards are the best, most practical, and most accurate standards. The implication is that the dvd+r standard promoted by the dvd forum is not as good as theirs.

And the dvd forum also launched a counterattack immediately, comparing the capacity of the two sides, the capacity of dvd+r is 2.8g, while the capacity of dvd-ra is only 2.58g, it is clear at a glance which is better!

But in fact, these data are all theoretical and can be completed in the laboratory, but they cannot be mass-produced at all. In other words, the technologies of both parties are immature. It's just that once which standard is accepted by more people, then which one will take a big step ahead in technology research and development, and the future profits will be huge.

So far, the dvd industry has entered the era of two heroes.

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