In an instant, everyone's eyes were on Fang Chen, according to their understanding of pirates, as long as they were profitable, pirates would definitely enter.

Hearing this, Fang Chen looked around, his eyes swept over everyone's faces one by one, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, and he chuckled disdainfully, and then his complexion changed suddenly, and he waved his big hand, word by word, and said very seriously: "Then make them unprofitable!"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, staring at Fang Chen in disbelief, they couldn't figure out how Fang Chen could make pirates unprofitable?

Or, when will the cost of genuine copy be lower than the cost of a pirate?

Is this possible?

Impossible, even if the sun comes out of the west, it is impossible!

Unless the actor doesn't want money, the film doesn't want money, the director doesn't want money, the props don't want money, the company doesn't want money, all of them don't want money.

But looking at Fang Chen's confident appearance, it didn't seem like he was joking, and everyone couldn't help but fall into a deep confusion at this time.

"That's why I'm looking for you. Fang Chen said slowly.

At this time, everyone didn't know whether they were thinking about what the pirates' unprofitability had to do with them, or if they were thinking about the feasibility of Fang Chen's words, and no one talked to Fang Chen for a while.

After dozens of breaths of silence in the room, Shao Yifu suddenly spoke, and said with a solemn expression: "I would like to hear the details, please ask Fang Dong for advice." ”

At this time, Shao Yifu also changed his words from Fang Chen to Fang Dong, which shows how much attention is paid to what Fang Chen is going to say next.

Fang Chen pondered for a moment, and then said: "Guo Dong and Lin Dong, who are engaged in manufacturing, should know a word called scale effect, to put it simply, because any production has a cost, generally including fixed costs and variable costs. To be profitable, the sales revenue must be greater than the production cost, and the fixed costs are constant, so the more produced, the less the fixed costs are allocated to the individual product, and the more profit there is. ”

"As the largest optical disc manufacturer in Huaxia, the scale is more than 100 times that of other optical disc manufacturers, and the cost of the product is naturally much lower than theirs, which is why I can make the cost of optical disc three Hong Kong dollars, and even I can assure you that in the future, the cost of optical discs will become lower, two five Hong Kong dollars, two Hong Kong dollars, one Hong Kong dollar, and even a few cents of Hong Kong dollars are not impossible. ”

The invention of the optical disc was very early, an American scientist named Russell invented it in the sixties, and the CD disc that we often see in modern times was developed by Philips and Sony in 1980, but because of the use of Russell's optical disc patent, the patent is owned by the American optical disc company where Russell works.

And the disc format we use today, that is, the CD-ROM format, is also developed by Sony and Philips.

In 1985, the Yellow Book standard, developed by Sony and Philips, made it possible for this format to accommodate a wide range of binary data, with CD-ROMs storing both music and computer data.

It can be said that Philips and Sony have set most of the standards for optical discs, as well as standards for video players.

The real large-scale production of optical discs began after 1988, so for the world, optical discs are a very new thing, especially for Huaxia.

In China, except for a few optical disc factories invested by Dongwei, which are producing optical discs to meet the needs of Western countries, mainly used for Walkman and computer storage, there is no other enterprise in China that can produce optical discs.

However, more importantly, the manufacturing cost of the disc is actually very low, and now the cost of three Hong Kong dollars per disc already includes the cost of production line procurement, that is, the cost of production machinery, the cost of labor, the cost of materials for the disc itself, the cost of transportation, the cost of sales, and the appropriate profit, such as 30% of the profit.

Well, as an emerging product, Fang Chen feels that 30% of the profit should be reasonable.

In other words, in fact, the actual cost of a disc is almost two Hong Kong dollars, less than two yuan Huaxia coins, and Fang Chen believes that with the upgrading of science and technology and the maturity of the industrial chain, the actual cost of the disc can be reduced a lot.

Like in later generations, generally speaking, the retail price of a disc is about one dollar, and the wholesale price can reach four or five cents, while the actual factory price is usually about two cents, which is only one-tenth of the current cost.

If you take inflation into account and the increase in labor wages, the real cost of a disc is only one-twentieth of what it is now, or even less.

It has fully proved that what is called science and technology is the primary productive force.

Xiaobawang has a lot of scientific research and technical personnel, and what they do is how to reduce the cost of optical discs as much as possible.

In other words, Xiaobawang has many scientific research and technical personnel, including front-line engineers, whose main task is to try their best to reduce the cost of Xiaobawang's various products.

For example, the Xiaobawang game machine, at the beginning, the cost of a game console was about 280 yuan, with the expansion of the market, the increase in production, it dropped to about 240 yuan, and when the production task of the game console was entrusted to Foxconn, Foxconn bid 210 yuan a piece.

At that time, I was really stunned by Fang Chen, to say that Lao Duan's level of cost control was already good, otherwise he couldn't reduce the cost of the game console by 15% in such a short period of time, and when it came to Foxconn, it could be reduced by 15%.

However, what surprised him the most was that at such a price, Foxconn still had money to make, and the Xiaobawang game console was still Foxconn's most profitable product.

Of course, the cost is also the highest, after all, Foxconn's OEM before was some needles and threads, and each one was only a few cents, or even a few cents.

I have to say that the reason why Foxconn can become the king of OEM is still reasonable.

And now, Foxconn's latest offer to Xiaobawang is 160 yuan for a game console and 172 yuan for a learning machine, which has been reduced by nearly 25%, but Foxconn can still maintain a profit of about 5%.

This is the result of scientific and technological progress and a more mature industrial chain.

But in this way, Fang Chen can be regarded as knowing why Xiaobawang sold the game console for two hundred and forty yuan in his previous life, and he can still promise a lifetime warranty.

Now the cost can be overwhelming 160 yuan, and if it is 2 years from now, it will overwhelm 120 yuan, I'm afraid there will be no problem at all.

Therefore, Fang Chen believes that it will not be long before the cost of the disc will take a big plunge again.

A few cents of Hong Kong dollars!

Hearing Fang Chen say this, Zou Wenhuai, Lin Baixin and the others couldn't help but gasp, and even Shao Yifu and Guo Henian, who had seen countless winds and waves, had a hint of surprise in their eyes.

How could they not be surprised that a videotape previously cost 12 Hong Kong dollars, and that a disc with a smaller size and better picture and sound quality would be only a few tenths of the price of a videotape in the future.

It didn't take long for Zou Wenhuai to come back to his senses, and looked at Fang Chen with a somewhat complicated expression, if Fang Chen can really monopolize Huaxia's optical disc factory, or if it really has a scale effect, the cost is much cheaper than that of a pirate company's optical disc factory, and it seems that there is still a little bit of trouble.

But as soon as the thought turned, Zou Wenhuai dispelled this idea again, according to their experience, the average cost of a movie to each videotape is basically about ten yuan, and if it is less than that, it will lose money.

In other words, even if it costs a penny to produce a disc, it will cost ten dollars just to share the cost of the movie.

No matter how high the cost of the pirate's disc is, he estimates that it will not exceed five yuan, and with some odd and bits of costs, such as transportation and sales, and even dotting, ten yuan can ensure that they can make a profit.

It's also ten dollars, not counting the other costs on their side, it's only enough for the cost of the movie, and the pirates can already make a profit.

This means that the price of their CDs is definitely higher than that of pirates.

That's a fart!

Thinking of this, Zou Wenhuai was suddenly deflated, and his whole person became weak.

As if he had seen through Zou Wenhuai's thoughts at a glance, Fang Chen said straight to Zou Wenhuai: "So, this also requires Zou Dong and everyone to support me." ”

"What support does Fang Dong need, is he planning to let us license the movie to you for free?" Zou Wenhuai said with a smile.

He thought about it just now, unless it was said that Fang Chen should not share the cost of the movie, otherwise Fang Chen would not be able to eliminate the pirates in Huaxia at all, and he would not even be able to make them unprofitable.

Seriously, at this point, he was tired and didn't want to talk anymore.

After making trouble for a long time, Fang Chen actually played this kind of trick of a white wolf with empty gloves, so what does this mean, does it treat him as a monkey?

And seriously, he doesn't care so much about Fang Chen, no matter how big Fang Chen's influence is, no matter how long his hand is, he can't reach to Xiangjiang, and he can't reach out to Xiangjiang's film circle.

Since he can't reach the film circle in Xiangjiang, what does it have to do with him, he can't afford to provoke Fang Chen, he can always hide, right?

As for whether Fang Chen would ask Shao Yifu and Guo Henian for help, he didn't care, he had been fighting Shao Yifu for more than 20 years, and when had he ever been afraid of Shao Yifu.

If Shao Yifu could really eliminate him, wouldn't he have eliminated him earlier, so what are you waiting for?

didn't seem to see Zou Wenhuai's bad attitude, Fang Chen said indifferently: "It's not free, but I hope you can reduce the royalties of this film and television copyright, even including the song copyright, to one dollar per disc, that is to say, for every disc I sell, I will give you a dividend of one dollar." ”

Hearing this, Zou Wenhuai paused for a moment, and then couldn't help laughing, and then he really laughed angrily.

Zou Wenhuai glanced at Fang Chen with a gloomy face, and then said mercilessly: "Dong Fang, I don't think there seems to be any difference between one dollar and free, and I, Zou Wenhuai, are not bad for the hundreds of thousands of yuan." ”

Seriously, he felt that it was better to be free, and when he said it, others thought that he was giving Fang Chen face and being generous.

And this dollar?

What about sending Hanako?

If there is a film cost of ten yuan, he can probably earn about hundreds of thousands, like some popular movies, if he can earn two or three million, it is about the same.

There is no way, there are too few people in Xiangjiang, there are only 6 million people in total, 1.5 million households, even if 1 in 10 people buy video tapes, then he can earn 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars.

After all, there are many people in Xiangjiang who don't watch movies, and the group of people who often watch movies have basically finished watching the film when it is released, and it is these people who hold up the sky of Xiangjiang movies, and then Wanwan will account for a large part, otherwise I think how did the box office of those films that cost 40 or 50 million Hong Kong dollars come from.

If he only charges a dollar for a disc, even for a popular film like "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother", he can charge less than 200,000 Hong Kong dollars.

To be honest, he really can't look down on this money.

After all, the children's film "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" released the year before last was not only the first film wholly owned by Hong Kong to win the weekend box office in North America, and the box office exceeded $130 million.

It can be said that "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" broke the box office record of an independent film, and also entered the top five grossing lists of the year, bringing Golden Harvest Company 30 million US dollars, 160 million Hong Kong dollars, and in addition to various costs, he also earned at least 70 million Hong Kong dollars.