Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 437 Going to America and Selling MP3
""MP3 Patent Dispute, Sehan may lose miserably"!"

""Domestic products should be self-improving! Mingyuan Technology has obtained a complete MP3 patent, and new products are coming soon."

"When will the persecution of Xiaguo enterprises by foreign-funded enterprises end?"

""Sehan Group actually did this kind of thing to Mingyuan Technology...""

"..."

Since the patent litigation case was heard in court that day, the newspapers recently have been full of news about Mingyuan Technology and Sehan Group. All kinds of sensational headlines are more and more unscrupulous, and the words are not shocking.

Mingyuan Technology, Chairman's Office.

The desk in front of Lu Yiming was full of the latest newspapers. At this moment, he was crossing his legs and leaning his back on the chair, reading the news reports with gusto.

Beside him, Song Honglin was helping him make tea and serve water.

"Boss Lu is amazing. He actually obtained so many key patent authorizations in such a short period of time."

"It seems that Mr. Lu has already thought of this step a long time ago. I really admire it before making a decision."

"And that Bill Gates, he really deserves to be the richest man in the world, it's good for his face."

Lu Yiming smiled slightly, and said: "This time we were able to win the MP3-related patents so quickly, thanks to Bill Gates' mediation, but in fact, the more important thing is that we chose to enter the market at a good enough time."

Song Honglin raised his eyebrows, and asked with some doubts: "Oh? What did Mr. Lu say?"

Lu Yiming said contemptuously: "Foreigners are human beings, as long as they are human, they must like money. Do you know the organization MPEG?"

Song Honglin said awkwardly: "I don't know. What does this organization do?"

Putting down the newspaper in his hand, Lu Yiming smiled slightly before explaining to Song Honglin: "In 3, the MPEG organization was formally born, and since then, this organization has tried to provide video and audio compression coding technology for the broadcasting industry. To formulate standards, and now the owners of MP1 patents have announced music layer standards based on MPEG-[-] video coding at that time."

The so-called MP3 is actually based on the research of psychoacoustics. The principle is that the human brain does not have the same perception of all the sounds in music, so discarding the sound content that the human brain does not care about directly will not affect music appreciation. quality.

Karlheinz Brandenburg, the father of MP3, managed to greatly reduce the size of music files by discarding parts of the audio data that are not important to human hearing, making the brain think that the sound quality has not been significantly compromised.

By digging deep into this technology, humans can freely balance between sound quality and file size.

Up to now, this technology has gradually matured. The size of MP3 music is only one-tenth of the size of ordinary uncompressed music. In the 90s when the network speed was not developed, it can be said to be an important foundation for the Internet and music sharing, and it is also a necessary prerequisite. condition.

With his hands behind his back, Lu Yiming stared into the distance through the window, and his tone became more melodious: "Although MPEG has established standards, it is not easy to promote MP3. After all, the existing electronic music market is almost all controlled by Sony. It is not easy for MP3 to replace Walkmans, vinyl tapes and CDs when traditional Japanese companies monopolize it, so we have the opportunity to intervene.”

Song Honglin seemed to understand, but still nodded his head as if he suddenly understood: "So that's how it is."

Then, he seemed to suddenly think of something, his face changed slightly, and he involuntarily raised his voice: "So, our real opponent is actually Sony!?"

Fighting a lawsuit with Sehan Group is already scary enough, but now you have to compete head-on with Sony's Walkman?
"Mr. Lu, do we want to play so big? Compete with Sony for the market?"

Seeing Song Honglin talking about Sony's expression changed, Lu Yiming was a little upset, and what he said was even more contemptuous and disdainful: "Is Sony amazing?"

This former overlord may have been extremely brilliant in the past, but in the coming information age, the position of the big brother of Japanese manufacturers has disappeared.

In the next few decades, almost all the companies in the consumer electronics market will be American and Xiaguo companies. Japanese manufacturers can’t stand up at all, especially in the field of smartphones. Japanese manufacturers can be said to be good at it. The cards were played poorly, and both thinking and technology were completely out of touch with the times.

And if you can't keep up with the pace of the times, you can only be eliminated by the times.

Facing these remnants of the past, instead of having any fear and fear, Lu Yiming was already thinking about how to make things worse and seize the other party's market.

"Sony is no longer good. Such a dead company is not our real opponent."

The opponent in Lu Yiming's heart is Apple, which has been bitten by someone on the other side of the ocean.

"Get ready, I'm going abroad."

"Ah? Where to go?"

"Beautiful country."

Later, Lu Yiming called Li Yiwen and told Li Yiwen that he was going to the beautiful country.

Li Yiwen was very puzzled and asked, "Why are you going out again, isn't the lawsuit with Shihan not over yet?"

Lu Yiming said confidently: "Don't worry about the lawsuit, our victory is already decided, and the opponent can't make any waves."

Seeing the confidence in Lu Yiming's tone, Li Yiwen didn't think too much, and asked, "Then you went abroad this time to promote Tianyin MP3?"

"That's right, the beautiful country is now the real world's largest consumer market for electronic products. If you want to make money, you must find a way to get in."

Li Yiwen, who has been to the beautiful country, also expressed his understanding of this, and said with emotion: "It is true that not many people in China can afford an MP2000 with a retail price of more than 3, and the old Americans have to be rich."

On the outskirts of northwest Los Angeles, in a Hollywood studio, Su Zhenge and Joke drove to the set.

Facing these two benefactor fathers, the people they met along the way greeted them very proactively.

"Hey, Paul."

Su Zhenge came over and greeted Paul when he saw Paul passing by one.

Paul took off his earphones, saw that it was Su Zhenge who was here, he didn't dare to neglect, and hurriedly greeted him.

Su Zhenge said with a smile: "It's been hard filming, let everyone take a break, I won't be filming this afternoon."

Paul was puzzled.

Su Zhenge said: "Mr. Lu came from China and will arrive soon. You bring the actresses in the play and go to the airport with me to pick up Mr. Lu."

I heard that in order to welcome Mr. Lu, the director and the investors had to lead a team to meet him in person. All the actors in the crew were amazed.

"Mr. Lu is here? Okay, let's have a holiday this afternoon. Let's meet Mr. Lu together."

For Paul, Lu Yiming is not only an investor, but also an idea provider for this drama.

At that moment, Paul took several leading actresses in the crew, followed Su Zhenge and Joke, and headed to the airport in three luxury cars respectively.

At the airport, the area where private jets take off and land, Lu Yiming took his Gulfstream plane and landed steadily.

As soon as he got off the plane, Su Zhenge led someone to greet him.

"Mr. Lu, you finally came to the beautiful country again. I've been looking forward to it day and night. Let's go, I've already prepared the dinner. This time, I have to clean up the dust for you. Otherwise, Xiaoxue will blame me .”

The last time Lu Yiming came to the beautiful country to participate in a competition, his family asked him to take care of Lu Yiming, but he forgot to drink and was scolded by his family when they found out. This time he dare not make such a mistake again.

Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Although this is why you asked me not to arrive at the meal time?"

"Hey, don't talk about that."

Su Zhenge quickly changed the subject, gave up his position to a few actresses in the play, and said, "Beauties, this is the President Lu I often tell you about, isn't he a good-looking talent?"

Although he has yellow skin, Lu Yiming's charm still makes these beauties irresistible.After all, the owner who owns a private jet at a young age, who cares what skin color he is?Kneeling and licking is over.

"Hello, Mr. Lu."

"Mr. Lu."

Several actresses took the initiative to shake hands with Lu Yiming. Among them, Mira was the most enthusiastic and directly gave Lu Yiming a strong hug.

Li Bingbing stepped forward and said, "Mr. Lu, thank you."

As a relatively well-known actress in the mainland, it was really thanks to Lu Yiming's strong recommendation that she was able to enter Hollywood, otherwise, how could it be her turn?

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "In my eyes, you are the most suitable actress to play Ida Wang, so I asked you to play the role only because you are suitable. Work hard, I am optimistic about you. Don't let me down."

"Thank you, Mr. Lu."

Li Bingbing was deeply moved.Hollywood is the sacred place in the hearts of all filmmakers, and she dreams of coming to Hollywood to develop.Now although Lu Yiming said that she was allowed to act because the role was suitable, but she didn't dare to really think so.How many excellent actors in Hollywood, if it wasn't for Lu Yiming's special care, would it be her turn?She's not so conceited yet.

Lu Yiming and Su Zhenge sat in the back seat together, Su Zhenge raised his eyebrows, and asked Lu Yiming with a smile: "Which one are you looking at? Tell me, Custodian can appear in your bedroom tonight."

Lu Yiming was speechless and choked, "Are you here to pimp?"

Su Zhenge laughed loudly and said, "Don't worry, such things are very normal in Hollywood. And it's still an old rule. I will never tell Xiaoxue. Trust my integrity."

"That's fine."

Lu Yiming shook his head slightly.

It wasn't that he was afraid of Su Zhenge's small report, but that he came here with a mission this time, and he didn't have the heart to play with these things.

"I can't stay in Los Angeles for a few days, just to see the progress of the filming of "Resident Evil", and then I have to go to Seattle to meet Bill Gates."

He came to the beautiful country this time, naturally to promote his own MP3 products.And the sooner the better, the sooner the better.After all, Apple has its own beliefs. If it doesn't win the high-end MP3 market first, Lu Yiming really doesn't have much confidence to compete directly with Apple.This has nothing to do with rebirth or not. After all, rebirth failed to teach him to rub the lithography machine with his hands.

When Su Zhenge heard that Lu Yiming was going to discuss business with Bill Gates, he immediately expressed regret, and said, "I planned to let you have a good taste of Hollywood, but since you have business, then forget it."

Lu Yiming slandered endlessly in his heart: Are you a taster?I'm too embarrassed to expose you.

"How is the filming progress of "Resident Evil"?"

Speaking of this, Su Zhenge was also very happy, and praised: "The director you hired, Paul Anderson, really has two talents, and the shooting progress is quite smooth. It will probably be released in March next year."

Hearing that it will be released in March next year, Lu Yiming nodded in satisfaction.When "Resident Evil" is released, Su Qiao Films will have a firm foothold in Hollywood. At that time, making money will be secondary. The key is to plant a nail in the North American market.

I'll cut Hu Manwei in the future, this piece of green leek, isn't that just a random cut?
In addition to allowing more Xia Guo movie stars to enter Hollywood to "kill monsters and upgrade", they can also suck blood from North America and then feed back the film industry in the mainland. It makes people happy to think about it.

In the evening, after having a sumptuous dinner at the hotel, Lu Yiming, who was exhausted from the journey, went to the accommodation department to rest.

As a result, just as he took off his shirt to take a shower, the bell rang outside the door.Lu Yiming looked out through the cat's eyes and found that it was Mira. He was immediately surprised, put his clothes back on, and then opened the door.

"Mira, what's the matter with you coming to see me after playing like this?"

After Mira walked in, she took the initiative to approach Lu Yiming and asked, "Mr. Lu, I heard that you wrote the script of "Resident Evil"?"

At this time, her upper body was only covered with a thin chest, and a gauze was draped over her shoulders, which was half covered.The lower body is a miniskirt, and you can see things you shouldn't see with a little movement.

Should I say it or not, the young Ukrainian hairy girl has really good looks, and Lu Yiming almost couldn't control the exotic style.

Lu Yiming said, "That's right."

Mira exclaimed with a look of admiration, "I didn't expect you to be not only a business genius, but also an art student."

While talking, Mira had already come over, hooked Lu Yiming's neck with her left hand, and drew circles with the index finger of her right hand on Lu Yiming's thick chest, almost throwing Lu Yiming down on the bed.

Lu Yiming was a little thankful that he was wearing jeans when he went out today, and the elasticity was not good, otherwise he would have held his head high by now.

"You have won the prize. Well, if you have nothing else to do, then go to rest and film tomorrow. Besides, I flew here from Xiaguo, so I am very tired. If you have anything to say, I will talk about it tomorrow."

Lu Yiming couldn't help but push Mira out of the room and locked the door.

He took off his pants, looked down, and decided that he should take a cold shower right away.

Three days later, Lu Yiming bid farewell to Su Zhenge and Joke, and flew to Seattle to prepare for a meeting with Bill Gates.

(End of this chapter)