Xu Wangqiu's face changed slightly when he heard this, and he pretended to be calm and said, "Why did Mr. Huo say this?"

Huo Yingdong smiled and said: "I have been in the business for decades, if I can't see that you have another purpose, I'm afraid I will be torn to pieces by others long ago." I didn't mean anything else, just curious, just wondering what the hell you wanted to do. ”

Xu Wangqiu knew that he had made a mistake, and he could bluff Huo Yingdong by showing his strength in "Black Saturday", so that he got a little carried away and forgot who Huo Yingdong was.

Fok Yingdong can start from scratch in Xiangjiang, a place where Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, can stand tall under the suppression of the British government in Hong Kong, and his vision and insight are definitely not comparable to ordinary people.

Xu Wangqiu felt that it was too difficult to hide from someone like Huo Yingdong, and felt that it was necessary to reveal part of his plan, he stared at Huo Yingdong and said seriously: "I can tell Mr. Huo, but Mr. Huo must promise not to disclose it to a third party." ”

Huo Yingdong nodded slightly and said, "I promise you." ”

Xu Wangqiu said slowly: "I just told Mr. Huo that we are now in the stage of the third industrial revolution, and this revolution is marked by the application of computers. This revolution will change many industries, including our film industry. In the future, computer technology will inevitably be combined with movies. After analyzing the future development of film and computers, our cultural system believes that digital audio and video have great promise in the future, digital technology will replace the current videotape, and digital film will replace film film. In order to ensure a breakthrough in the field of digital audio-visual, our cultural system has engaged in a digital audio-visual project, also known as the Digital Great Wall, codenamed 752. This plan is known to very few people, including the top leaders, and I cannot tell you the specifics. The only thing I can tell you is that the co-production policy launched by our export company, our establishment of Sugon, including the establishment of Xiangjiang Sugon, are all part of the whole plan. ”

Huo Yingdong felt that Xu Wangqiu's insight and vision were too amazing, and it was simply a little abnormal; now after listening to Xu Wangqiu's words, he had some understanding. Xu Wangqiu's establishment of Shuguang Company in Xiangjiang is part of the whole plan, so everything he said should not be his own judgment, but the explanation of the people above.

As for why the country asked Xu Wangqiu to do it, Huo Yingdong didn't think it was strange. After he promised to lend Xu Wangqiu money, he contacted friends in China to inquire about Xu Wangqiu's situation. Xu Wangqiu's situation is more complicated, some people say that he is the son of General Xu, and some people say that he is from an ordinary family. However, the only thing that is certain is that Xu Wangqiu is highly valued by the state, and he became a department-level cadre before the age of 20;

Huo Yingdong originally thought that Xu Wangqiu had made a plan by himself, but now that he knew that it was a plan made by the state, he couldn't help asking: "It doesn't matter if you tell me this?"

Xu Wangqiu waved his hand and said: "The leader above said that Mr. Huo is our party's friend in distress and is absolutely credible. It doesn't matter if you leak a little information to Mr. Huo, as long as you don't reveal the core secrets. However, the stakes are very high, please Mr. Huo do not disclose it to anyone, even the closest people. ”

Huo Yingdong said with a serious face: "Don't worry, I will never reveal this to anyone." ”

Xu Wangqiu smiled and said, "When Mr. Huo said this, I was relieved." ”

Fok Yingdong asked: "Do you want me to set up a science and technology venture capital fund related to the 752 project?"

Xu Wangqiu shook his head and said: "The two have nothing to do with each other, but it can't be said that they are completely unrelated." The 752 project is a digital audio-visual project, but there is a shortage of relevant talents in China. At present, the state is engaged in economic development, and all funds are invested in economic construction, and scientific research funds have been drastically reduced, which is very unfavorable to the development of science and technology. When I heard that Mr. Huo had invested his money in the field of sports, I thought that it would be good if I could give a little money to the technology field, so I put forward the proposal of setting up a technology venture capital fund. ”

Huo Yingdong understood what was going on: "You gave me Shuguang shares because you want me to help, I don't know what I need to do?"

Xu Wangqiu said slowly: "Project 752 is a big project, and it is impossible to complete it with export companies and Shuguang. At that time, hundreds of units, universities and research institutes will be involved. There are some things that are more troublesome to do in China, because some equipment is embargoed to us abroad, so it can only be put in Xiangjiang. At that time, Mr. Huo may need to help, or even Mr. Huo will take the lead. ”

Xu Wangqiu exhaled softly and said seriously: "In the field of consumer electronics at the end of this century, this is the only chance that China may lead the world. If this thing can really be done, we are all heroes for the country and the nation. ”

Huo Yingdong was a little excited when he heard this: "When you need help, you just have to speak, our Huo family has absolutely nothing to say." ”

Project 752 is nonsense by Xu Wangqiu, 752 is 863 minus 1, but the content of Project 752 is true. The co-production policy, as well as the establishment of Dawn, are all part of this plan. In the future, Xu Wangqiu will really suggest that the country engage in this project, with only one purpose, that is, to put VCD and DVD in the hands of Chinese.

There are many reasons why Chinese movies collapsed in the 90s, among which VCD and DVD are one of the most important.

Unlike China's film companies, which were swept away by VCDs and DVDs, Hollywood's seven major studios have not been hit, but have made huge profits through DVDs. In Hollywood, movies account for only 20% of total movie revenues, while DVDs earn up to 40%.

If China's studios can make enough profits from VCDs and DVDs, as Hollywood studios do, they will be able to survive the crisis of the 90s. Of course, this is very difficult, because China does not have strict copyright protection measures like the United States.

Film piracy is rampant in China, and it is not uncommon for any film to be pirated during its release. Within three days of the release of the popular movie, there was no high-definition version of the outflow, which is considered to be well protected.

For example, when Zhang Yimou's "Hero" was released, the Ministry of Culture issued a special "Circular" requiring all localities to strictly prevent and crack down on piracy of "Hero", and the Ministry of Culture and the National Anti-Pornography Office also set up a special group to crack down on "Hero" piracy to carry out special arrangements to crack down on piracy. However, only three days after the film was released, piracy appeared on the market, and it was blatantly marked with the subtitle "Chinese film piracy production company assisted in filming", which is completely a blatant provocation to state organs. This shows how rampant the pirates are.

Xu Wangqiu is not a god, it is impossible to solve the problem of piracy, and it is impossible for domestic film studios to make high profits from renting and selling DVDs like Hollywood companies. Xu Wangqiu struggled with this issue for a long time, and finally got inspiration from the DVD patent war in the previous life, which made him think of a practical solution.

If the film studio can be pulled in when the VCD and DVD standards are formulated, then the film studio can get dividends when collecting royalties from VCD and DVD companies. In the previous life, a domestic DVD had to pay a patent fee of 18 US dollars to foreign manufacturers, which was almost 150 yuan. If domestic film studios can charge a patent fee of 10 yuan from each VCD, 20 million VCDs a year, that is 200 million, and each company can share more than 20 million, which is enough for them to tide over the difficulties.

However, this matter is extremely difficult, and this difficulty lies not in the invention of the first VCD and DVD, let alone in the production of VCD and DVD, but in how to survive the joint strangulation of foreign manufacturers.

When talking about the history of China's electronics industry in the previous life, many people would mention Wanyan Group and Jiang Wanmeng, the developer of VCD machines. There is a saying circulating on the Internet that Jiang Wanmeng made a fatal mistake after developing the VCD: he actually thought that in the situation at that time, it was not of much significance to apply for a patent, so that the first batch of 1,000 VCD machines launched by Wanyan were almost all bought by domestic and foreign home appliance companies to make prototypes and became the object of dissection.

In the later rumors, because Sony, Panasonic, Philips and other foreign manufacturing giants have strengthened the research on VCD machines, launched new patented technologies, and refreshed the technical standards of VCD, so that domestic home appliance enterprises, including Wanyan Group, need to pay huge patent fees to these foreign giants for the production of VCD.

In fact, this statement is not true at all, VCD was invented by Jiang Wanmeng, but all he uses is someone else's technology, the movement is Sony's, and the decoder board is C-CUBE. What Jiang Wanmeng did was just to combine these things, this kind of invention is a combination invention, it is not inventive, the only thing that can be applied for is a utility model patent, but this kind of patent is easy to circumvent, and may even be canceled.

For example, in March 2000, Bae Yong-sik, a South Korean, applied to the State Intellectual Property Office of China for an invention patent titled "MP3 player", which was granted in February 2005. In 2010, Bae Yong-sik sued Sony in court, demanding that Sony stop manufacturing and selling products that infringed on the invention patent rights involved in the case. Sony, on the other hand, argued that Bae's patent was a combined invention with little inventiveness. In the end, Sony filed a lawsuit with the Patent Reexamination Board to cancel Bae Yong-sik's patents one by one. By 2018, Bae Yong-sik used to sue Sony for patents, all of which were declared invalid.

Before the invention of VCD, Sony and Philips had already made LD, and there are many home appliances with CDROM as the medium that can play VCD by inserting a decoder card, such as a 32-bit disc game console. Even if Jiang Wanmeng applies for a VCD patent, Sony and other companies may revoke Jiang Wanmeng's patent through litigation.

If Xu Wangqiu only made the VCD, instead of mastering all the patents, then Xu Wangqiu's VCD would be the same as the DVD of the previous life, and would die under the joint strangulation of foreign companies.

In the last century, the domestic DVD company was prosperous, and by about 2000, China became the world's largest producer and exporter of DVD. According to statistics, in 2001, China's total export of DVD products reached 10.5 million units, and in 2002, China's DVD production accounted for 90% of the world's output. However, the serious problem behind the huge production and sales is that the core patents and technical standards of DVD are all mastered by foreign companies, and the core components of DVD are imported from abroad, and they are only simply assembled in China, and Chinese companies basically do not have their own intellectual property rights, which has laid the biggest hidden danger for the collapse of China's DVD enterprises.

At the end of 1998, Philips, Sony, and Pioneer formed a 3C patent alliance (later LG of South Korea also joined), and in 1999, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Panasonic, JVC, and Time Warner formed a 6C patent alliance (later IBM also joined the alliance, but it was still called 6C), and they demanded that Chinese DVD companies pay patent fees. Thomson then demanded that the Chinese company pay royalties. Next, Dolby demanded royalties because Chinese companies used Dolby's surround sound and noise reduction technology, and DTS because Chinese companies used their digital audio technology.

The price of a DVD exported by China is $32, and the patent fee handed over to foreigners is $18, the cost is $13, and Chinese companies can only earn a profit of $1. Similarly, the export price of a CD-ROM in China is 10 cents, but the royalty is as high as 4.5 cents, which is basically unprofitable.

Under the strangulation of foreign companies' patents, China's once-prosperous Chinese DVD manufacturers either went bankrupt or were forced to transform, and China's once-prosperous DVD industry disappeared.