After thinking about what he had seen and heard in the mainland, Zou Wenhuai became more and more sure that the poorest people in Xiangjiang were all rich in the mainland.

Take the 10,000 yuan households that were still relatively popular in the mainland a few years ago, 10,000 yuan is already a great deal in the mainland, and they can be regarded as famous rich and capable people in ten miles and eight villages.

In Xiangjiang, 10,000 yuan is only more than two months' salary for an ordinary office clerk or supermarket cashier, and if you are a taxi driver, middle manager of a company, etc., a month's income is enough.

Although the mainland is much richer now, and the 10,000-yuan household is no longer so rare, the average salary level is still only one-fiftieth or sixtieth of that of Xiangjiang, which means that the annual salary of Xiangjiang people is higher than that of mainlanders in the mainland for 50 or 60 years, which is almost a lifetime's salary.

It is precisely because of the affluence that there are many people who can afford movie tickets that the film market in Xiangjiang can be so developed, producing so many movies and feeding so many stars every year.

Like Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow, who have the highest salaries at this time, they are already at the level of tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, while Chow Yun-fat and Leslie Cheung and others also have seven or eight million Hong Kong dollars, while Gong Li, who has the highest salary in the mainland, is only one million Hong Kong dollars.

Even Gong Licai's salary of only one million is enough to prove that the mainland is willing to pay dozens of yuan for movie tickets to movie theaters, but there are very few people who enter the movie to watch the movie, and there is no market for commercial films at all.

If you sell low-priced CDs, maybe it's better, after all, there are really a lot of families and video halls in the mainland that buy videotapes, and the volume is two or three times that of Xiangjiang, but a CD only earns one dollar?

Zou Wenhuai shook his head, it was not interesting after all.

At this time, Fang Chen said with a smile: "Zou Dong, I'm afraid I underestimate the mainland market, once the VCD is listed, and the price of the disc is reasonable, the number of CDs sold in the mainland every year will be at least as high as four or five billion, of which the film and TV series are the majority, if Zou Dong can't even look at the money......

Fang Chen glanced at Zou Wenhuai again, and then said lightly: "Then forget it, I don't force Zou Dong." ”

Could it be that without Zou Wenhuai, he wouldn't be able to do this CD business?

It's just a shame on the face!

To be honest, if Zou Wenhuai refuses to license the company's films to him, it will be Zou Wenhuai's loss, and it won't be long before Zou Wenhuai will cry and shout to authorize the movie to him.

The reason why he wants to make a disc is mainly for VCD, after all, a VCD without a disc to play is like a gun without bullets, when bricks are built on the wall, it is not strong enough.

In the previous life, Wanyan Company, as the inventor of VCD, was also the first company in the world to produce and sell VCD, why did it die so miserably, in addition to not registering VCD patents, it was dying in cultivating the market.

As a new product, VCD naturally did not have ready-made discs to match VCD, so Wanyan Company tried to negotiate with the audio-visual distribution company, and then talked with the CD manufacturer, spending tens of millions, which can be regarded as making a batch of CDs that can be played on VCD.

But this planted a bad result, Wanyan Company, which spent a lot of money on making VCD discs, had no money.

After all, in addition to the development and production of VCD, Wanyan Company also needs to cultivate the ecological environment of the entire VCD, from compressors, complete machines, to discs and copyrights, all the problems encountered by Wanyan Company need to be solved by Wanyan Company.

In addition, Wanyan also has to tell people what VCD is, not only to educate users and distributors, but also to educate producers and publishers.

It is precisely because of such a large investment that Wanyan Company has not applied for a national technological transformation fund of 240 million yuan for a long time, so it has changed from a revolutionary pioneer to a revolutionary martyr, and has become a major regret in the history of Chinese science and technology and the history of electronic product development.

This is also the reason why he flew to Xiangjiang to interview Shao Yifu, Zou Wenhuai and others at such an important moment as the VCD listing is imminent.

He can't do piracy, right?

If this is for outsiders to know, where will his face go.

In addition, the reason why he still wants to monopolize the production and sales of Huaxia's CDs and clean up those pirated CDs is because he thinks that Huaxia can actually not have piracy rampant like in his previous life, and he wants to do something for these film companies and knowledge workers.

But the premise is that the price can't be too expensive, if it's too expensive, it is impossible for the domestic people to support the genuine version.

And Fang Chen has always believed that protecting intellectual property rights and respecting intellectual property rights does not necessarily have to be so expensive, as long as the quantity is large enough, in fact, a very cheap price, even a dollar, can make money, so that the market can develop benignly, so that knowledge workers can make money, and this industry can prosper.

After all, works involving intellectual property have a very significant feature, that is, the marginal cost is basically zero.

After a movie is written, its main cost has been fixed, no matter how many people watch it, the additional cost it needs is minimal, which also means that as long as there are enough viewers and payers, the per capita cost is very low.

It also means that ordinary people can enjoy genuine services at a very low price.

At this moment, in the era when VCDs have just been produced, it seems that it is possible to achieve such a goal.

In the previous life, VCD in the mainland did not say that one per family, but if it was said that more than 50% of families owned a VCD, it would definitely not be an exaggeration.

When it was just born, because people did not know about it, coupled with the lack of production capacity of Wanyan Company, and the high price, it was basically about four or five thousand yuan, and there was no supporting disc use, so only more than 10,000 units were sold.

Moreover, the first batch of 1,000 Wanyan VCDs produced by Wanyan Company were all bought by various electronic manufacturers as prototypes as soon as they were put on the market, and the sales were extremely hot.

By 1994, the number of VCDs sold in Huaxia had risen tenfold to more than 100,000 units, and in 1995 it had reached 600,000 units.

In 1996, with the success of various electronic manufacturers, such as Aiduo, Xinke, Xiaxin, Malatane, Jinzheng, Xianke, etc., and the decline in VCD prices, people also became more and more aware of VCD, and the VCD discs on the market became more and more abundant, and the sales of VCD finally ushered in a blowout.

The sales volume of VCD soared from 10,000 units to 10,000 units, reaching 10,000 units in 1997 and exceeding 20 million units in 1999.

However, the real pinnacle of DVD players is not VCD, but the DVD that followed, with clearer pictures and complex functions, coupled with more mature technology, DVD instantly swept the world, in 2003 Huaxia produced 85 million DVD players, of which 72 million were exported abroad.

Having said that, it is not uncommon for any family with a VCD to have no seventy or eighty discs, hundreds or even thousands of discs.

Therefore, in the past 12 years, the average number of CDs sold by Huaxia every year has reached 1 billion, and the output has reached as high as 2 or 3 billion.

And among these billion CDs, basically 780 million are all kinds of films, TV series, and song CDs.

People who have experienced the 90s are very aware of the influence of Xiangjiang movies and TV series on China, it can be said that at this time, there are really few mainland movies and TV series that can be played, and the CDs on the street are all movies and TV series produced by Xiangjiang.

Therefore, even if only one dollar is charged per piece, Zou Wenhuai and others can earn five or six hundred million yuan a year, which is basically the top of the entire Xiangjiang and Wanwan film markets, and it is exaggerated to say that it is the entire Chinese film market.

After all, you must know that now the box office champion of Xiangjiang can have a box office of 30 or 40 million, and the tenth place will generally fall to about 20 million, as for general films, it is normal to have a box office of 3 to 5 million.

It is like the domestic box office of several billion yuan in later generations, and the annual box office is as high as five or six billion, which is 100 times that of the current Xiangjiang box office.

Thinking of this, Fang Chen suddenly felt a little sad, sad for Zou Wenhuai, sad for his shallow knowledge, sad for his inability to keep up with the trend of the times, he had already sent the money to his mouth, and he turned it away.

You must know that in the previous life, whether it was Shaw Brothers Film Company or Golden Harvest Film Company, they hardly got a lot of benefits from the seven or eight billion CDs per year in the mainland.

On one side is a pirated CD of ten yuan, on the other hand, there is a genuine CD of thirty or forty yuan a piece, coupled with the pressure of no legal supervision, the purchase channel is smooth, and it can be sold at any time, the common people will naturally choose pirated CDs, save those twenty or thirty yuan, and buy four or five catties of pork to eat, isn't he fragrant?

And because of the scarcity of buyers, Xiangjiang's film and television companies naturally refused to lower the price of discs, and they couldn't make much money.

In this way, a vicious circle is formed.

This is also the reason why he has always insisted that a CD is only given to Shao Yifu, Zou Wenhuai and others for one dollar, if the price of genuine CDs is too high, he has no confidence to compete with those pervasive pirates in China.

After all, he can't command the law enforcement officers of the industrial and commercial offices, and he is not willing to interfere in the command and make trouble for himself, so he is still cautious in China.

And if the copyright fee is only one dollar, he is still confident that he will compete with those pirates, not to mention eliminating them all, but killing them all so that they dare not take the lead, just like those small game console companies that are copycat Xiaobawang game consoles, they only dare to sell in the vast rural land, and they don't even dare to enter the town, they can still do it.

First of all, as I said before, his optical disc factory is the largest, and with the scale effect, he can make the cost of optical discs much lower than that of pirates.

And his cost of sales is also low, and with DynaSky's retail stores all over the country, he can quickly sell these VCD discs to consumers.

After all, the sales cost of Qingtian's retail stores is less than that of the spiritual guys who sell a batch of CDs from their superiors on the street, and even lower than the sales costs of some counters and video stores in computer cities.

The latter two are also the main force in the sale of pirated CDs.

Another thing to do is not to think that pirates have no costs other than the costs of normal business activities, production and transportation.

As a pirate manufacturer of pirated CDs, there is a risk of being seized by law enforcement officials at any time.

Moreover, in order to evade the supervision of law enforcement, most of the optical disc production lines used by pirates are smuggled in, and since they are contraband, there is naturally a risk of being smuggled.

These are the hidden costs of pirates, Fang Chen can't drive law enforcement officers to break the piracy chain across the country, but it is still possible to let Liu Yuanjun help, knock down a batch of disc production plants, and seize a batch of disc production lines.

If the quality of the other party's disc production line is good, he can also take pictures of these production lines through the legal auction channel, and then he can leave a lot of money.

It's the same as what domestic record companies did in their previous lives.

In previous lives, domestic record companies had always relied on pirates, who pirated records a week earlier, and their records would die and they would not be able to sell them at all.

In order to reduce costs, record companies often buy seized disc production lines, and as genuine record companies, the equipment used is not as good as that of pirates, and they can only use second-hand goods from pirates, which has to be said to be a great sadness.

But it's true.