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Feng Yu held his phone away from his ears . What the hell was he shouting for?
“What’s wrong? Old Jiang, why are you so excited?” Feng Yu asked . He was also curious . Did Jiang Wanmeng make any breakthrough in his research?
“We have successfully developed MPEG-II!” Jiang Wanmeng shouted excitedly .
“What did you say?” Feng Yu was stunned .
“We have conducted research on the coding based on your requirements . The audio can reach 4 audio channels, and it is clearer and crisp . The video quality is also better . The resolution is the highest in the world . Most importantly, no mosaics will appear in the video!”
Mosaics was the error of the video’s picture quality . Colors of the part of the video were mixed, and it looks like burry squares .
Mosaics was one of the more pressing issues faced by VCD development . VCD video quality was clearer than cassette tapes, but the discs are easily damaged . Once there are scratches, the video and audio will be lagged, and mosaics will appear . The user experience will be bad when this happens .
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The small cinemas and video lounges in China had feedback . After playing the same VCD several times, Mosaics will appear . The more time the VCD was played, the more mosaics will appear in the video .
Wind and Rain electronics had introduced a VCD repair solution . It is a type of cleaning solution, which could clean the VCDs and let the player read the data better . Later on, Wind and Rain introduced a new kind of cleaning solution made from Alkaline solvent and polishing material . It can be used to polish the VCDs .
Polishing will lighten the scratches, and the player could read the data better . But after polishing, the VCD will be damaged more easily . This solution was only temporarily .
If the mosaics could not be eradicated, then they must lower the possibilities of mosaics appearing . Feng Yu remembered about the Super VCD from his previous life . This technology appeared in the era between VCD and DVD . It was also because of this technology that let VCD became more popular and caused the death of VHS .
The earliest VCD used MPEG-1 technology, and the video quality was not very clear . The audio also did not have channels to choose from . This next generation technology had 4 channels to choose from . The viewers had more options for the movies’ audio . It will also have duo audio for two languages and increase the market for VCD .
Also, this new technology will increase the functions of VCD players . The VCD will have the option to play music only . This was most suitable for karaoke .
This Super VCD will also threaten the position of Laserdisc . Not only this technology will cause VHS death, but it also caused the decline of Laserdisc .
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Feng Yu had asked Wind and Rain Electronic and Aiwa to conduct research on this technology together . But he never expects this technology to be developed so fast .
Feng Yu remembered in his previous life, Sony was the one who had developed this technology . Later, Sony exchanged the technologies with Philips and set the standards for this industry .
The players that were produced were not called Super VCD . It was called a DVD . That means the Super VCD and DVD were using the same players . But the DVD had more significant storage than the Super VCD .
In Feng Yu previous life, many people discovered some players could play VCDs and some could not . That’s because some of them were using Super VCD players and these players could read DVD .
There was also another advantage of this technology . Which is the increased storage of the disc? A super VCD disc could store a whole movie . It no longer needs to split a movie into 2 discs . This would save the trouble of switching disc in the middle of a movie .
Two Super VCD disc could record a concert, or one disc could store more than 20 music videos . It was a good deal for the consumers, and they will be more willing to buy music VCDs .
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Feng Yu unintentionally faced Sony again . First, Aiwa’s Walkman had beat Sony and lowered their profits from their Walkman sales . Then, Aiwa introduces their CD players . It snatches Sony’s music players market share .
It also caused Nintendo to fall out with Sony . This made Sony video games business to shrink . To recover their sales, Sony had to channel their funds to set up a Video games division to developed CD-ROM game console . This was to fight back at Nintendo’s monopoly of the gaming industry .
Feng Yu remembered that at the end of this year, Sony will introduce the first generation of PlayStation . It was Sony’s most successful electronic product after Walkman . It held the record of having sales of 100 million units!
Later, PSP, PS2, PS3, and PS4 were all successful . All the models had high sales .
This year should be Sony’s best year in terms of technologies breakthrough . But in this lifetime, this year was a tragedy for Sony . Sony does not own the DVD technology anymore .
Feng Yu had asked Jiang Wanmeng to contact Fu Guangzheng immediately to apply for the patents . They must announce their player’s standards and make it the industry’s benchmark!
Someone had said that a top company will set the standards for the industry and a second rated company will sell its brand . A third rated company will sell its products, and a fourth-rated company will sell its resources . Setting the standards and benchmark for the industry was what most companies were aiming for .
Patented technologies could only prevent other company from using it in their products . It will not prevent others from making a breakthrough with that technology . Sony could always breakdown Wind and Rain Electronic’s technologies and develop new technologies .
In Feng Yu’s previous life, many companies fought for the industry standards for several years . All the companies’ products had different technologies, and all of them wanted their technologies to be the industry’s standards . These companies include Toshiba, Pioneer, etc .
In the end, all the companies realized it will not end well for them if they carry on fighting against each other . If two influential companies fought against each other, some other company would take advantage of this . That’s why all the companies stopped .
But sometime later, the companies started to compete against each other for the DVD players and many DVD encoding technologies were introduced .
In the current life, these electronic giants’ technologies were all outdated . Wind and Rain Electronics had introduced the VCD first . Wind and Rain electronics had the advantage in R&D . Also, other companies’ businesses were diversified . They were not concentrating on developing one product like Wind and Rain . For instance, Sony was also developing PlayStation at the same time . Toshiba and other companies were researching digital cameras and computers . They were not focusing all their efforts on one product .
Wind and Rain Electronics was different . Feng Yu does not want Wind and Rain to enter the computer industry . He had Lenovo’s shares after all . The digital camera market will be a massive market in the future . But currently, the resolution was not good enough to replace film camera . Digital cameras will only be accepted by the consumers after the resolution was over 1 million .
That will only happen at the end of the century . At that time, Wind and Rain Electronics could just exchange technologies with other companies to get what they want .
2 weeks later, Wind and Rain Electronics held a press conference in Beijing to introduce their high storage multimedia disc’s technologies . They also told the press that Wind and Rain Electronics had successfully developed MPEG-II technology . The first generation of Super VCD will be introduced to the market at the end of the year!