Hulu's affair is basically over.

Within 1 month, the funds are in place.

Within 2 months, we completed the signing of streaming media copyright authorization with major content providers.

Within 3 months, the staff formation of Hulu was completed.

In April next year, the network will be accelerated, and in May, the Hulu website will be launched!

In June next year, the beta version of Hulu will be officially launched.

After half a year of testing, in January 2007, the official version of Hulu was launched!

Although Donn is not optimistic about Hulu's competitiveness in the streaming field in the future, this is the first streaming platform for professional film and television content that embodies the essence of Hollywood.

Standing on the tuyere, pigs can fly!

No matter how many disadvantages Hulu has, this venture is unlikely to fail.

Even if Hulu is squeezed miserably by emerging streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook in the future, it is enough to ensure safety when standing on the cusp.

In another 10 years, the valuation of $10 billion will be very easy!

It is impossible for Donn to lose money on the investment he is involved in.

In a few years, streaming media will be the general trend, and Hollywood will inevitably hear the wind, and it will be impossible to share the benefits.

Whether it's Comcast or Disney, they will definitely find a way to snap up Hulu's equity everywhere, make Hulu their own brand, kick out all their partners, and start eating alone.

It's like Disney in the previous life, after several turnovers, layers of looting, squeezed out Comcast, and finally won Hulu.

This is normal business thinking.

At that time, Don En can shout a high price, sell the 20% stake in his hand, and develop Netflix with peace of mind.

Controlling Netflix and investing in Hulu doesn't make business sense.

Don's layout for the future is clear and precise.

Every step of the way, it's all about making money!

No one wants to take advantage of him!

Of course, these are just Donn's personal calculations.

A large part of people, not only Hollywood, but also many Wall Street and IT elites, are not optimistic about the future of streaming media, and think that the traditional DVD industry is more market-wide!

The United States is able to increase Internet speeds because of its superior conditions.

In order to lay optical fibers on a large scale, develop new network protocols, and promote network reform, the seven major telecom operators in the United States have a total investment of more than 50 billion US dollars!

With such a large-scale investment, apart from the US telecom giants, who in the world has such strength?

Therefore, high internet speeds can only exist in the United States.

Those overseas countries are still "narrowband" networks, and they can't adapt to high-definition streaming at all.

Or DVD and HD DVDs have more potential!

Tech giants, including Microsoft, hold this view and are busy promoting his HD-DVD collaboration with Toshiba.

This is typical American arrogance and arrogance.

They greatly underestimate the strength of those telecom giants overseas.

The Internet is a product of the Reagan administration's "Star Wars" campaign.

If the Internet is compared to a house, the United States is the homeowner, renting the house to tenants, and introducing a series of network protocols to establish the rules of use. For example, narrowband protocols, broadband protocols, and mobile 2G, 3G, and 4G networks. Even allies such as Britain and France did not dare to develop an agreement of their own, so they could only follow the rules of the United States.

Now, with the birth of broadband protocols, overseas telecom giants can implement them to their heart's content under the new rules.

Although it will lag behind the United States, it will never lag behind too much!

That is, within a few years, broadband will be promoted all over the world, pushing the Internet wave to the peak!

Of course, there are some countries that do not have a good relationship with the "landlord" of the United States, and the landlord will offer the highest rent and the smallest space. The people will also suffer, and they can only spend the highest Internet fee and use the slowest Internet.

Future benefits, more on that later.

The immediate benefits, Don will not miss out.

Isn't the overall environment a traditional media that looks down on streaming media and is optimistic about high-definition discs?

That's just right!

Sony has held a press conference, and in January next year, it will officially show its Blu-ray technology and Blu-ray products to the whole society!

Blu-ray HD, which has been secretly developed for many years, will be officially unveiled!

At the same time, Dell, Hitachi, HP, Philip, Samsung, Sharp and other electronics companies, members of the Blu-ray Disc organization, have also announced that they will launch high-definition players based on Blu-ray Discs next year!

The battle of Blu-ray and DV-DVD in HD format is about to start!

This news is undoubtedly a blockbuster for the entire video industry.

Over the past year or so, HD-DVD has swept the HD market, with more than 4 million HD-DVD players sold on average, with an average price of $1,000 per unit!

This industry alone is an output value of 4 billion US dollars!

Now, a new HD format Blu-ray is about to appear.

Blu-ray HD DVD player, can harvest another wave of market!

Almost all electronics manufacturing companies are eyeing the market and working overtime to be the first to seize this market.

Under the big waves, there are still undercurrents surging.

Dolby Laboratories has thoroughly understood Blu-ray technology and integrated the HD-DVD playback mechanism, and has developed a "Dolby" DVD player that can play both HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs, and is also compatible with ordinary DVDs!

Although in terms of styling design, it is not as compact and thin as the Samsung DVD player, but it is more powerful.

This is definitely an epoch-making product.

Even the production agreement has been signed, just wait for an order, and the Chinese Foxconn factory will start production in full swing!

This market must be seized as soon as possible.

In 2001, the global sales of DVD players were 30 million units, of which the quality of the Sony DVD player, the price of 500-600 US dollars, annual sales of 5 million units.

In the past year, 35 million DVD players were sold worldwide, and Sony's DVD players were sold to 4 million units, but the price was as low as before $350-450.

Why?

Because after the WTO, Chinese merchants joined the market!

In Wal-Mart's supermarkets, DVD players priced at only $50 can be seen everywhere, and they are like dumping to occupy this market.

It's just too cheap.

It is seven or eight percent cheaper than Sony, Philip, and Samsung's DVD players, and the competitiveness is too strong.

The same is true for the HD DVD player market.

Get in the game fast!

Grab the quick money!

……

Wednesday, December 14th.

The much-anticipated blockbuster "King Kong" has been released!

The so-called attention comes from the film's great director Peter Jackson!

The New Zealand director is really hot right now!

The "Lord of the Rings" series has been over for more than two years, but in the ranking of the disc rental industry in the past year, the movie with the highest number of rentals is not Marvel's superhero blockbuster, not the "Pirate League" series starring Johnny Depp, nor the "Star Wars" series, but the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy!

The Lord of the Rings trilogy has even become the highest-selling DVD film series of all time!

Peter Jackson's current fame can be on par with Donn and Spielberg!

Half a head taller than Cameron.

Now, King Kong is out.

On December 13, the advance box office was $1.2 million.

On December 14, it grossed $9.75 million.

On December 15, it grossed $6.3 million.

Friday, December 16, $14.5 million at the box office.

Saturday, December 17, $20.1 million at the box office.

Sunday, December 18, $15.5 million at the box office.

This fierce commercial blockbuster that scared off all the studios of the same schedule, and the box office in the first week was ...... It was only $67 million!

This is a big surprise!

With a production cost of $210 million and a publicity cost of $150 million, "King Kong" is the biggest investment of the year!

Plus Peter Jackson's personal 10% box office dividend clause...... For this film to recoup its cost at the box office, the North American box office must reach $300 million, and the global box office must exceed $750 million!

As a result, the North American box office only $67 million in the first week?

Finished!

Failed!

You must know that "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", which was released a month ago, reached $110 million at the North American box office in the first weekend, and now the cumulative global box office has exceeded $700 million!

But what about King Kong?

Can it reach $500 million at the global box office?

For a time, public opinion rose suddenly.

Especially in the film and television entertainment department, the atmosphere is very depressing.

Fernando Bardem, the newly appointed chairman and CEO of the film and television entertainment department, is even more painful and feels that he has not been born at the right time.

He was the vice president of finance and the second-in-command of New Global Finance.

After being temporarily taken by Don to manage the film and television entertainment department, he also achieved a certain success, allowing the film and television entertainment department to withstand the pressure of the Hollywood industry, leaving enough time for Don to fight back against the Big Five.

That's a big deal.

I didn't expect to come across "King Kong" and encounter this kind of thing.

This Peter Jackson has left the "Lord of the Rings" series, which is a bit unreliable!

"King Kong" is New Universal's biggest project of the year, and it is the last blockbuster.

It turned out to be messed up......

Sure enough, on this day, he was called to the office by Donn.

Dejected, Fernando Bardem was the first to admit his mistake and said, "I have spoken to Peter, and he is very upset and apologizes to us." He even said that if "King Kong" really caused losses to Tang Pictures in the end, he was willing to cut the dividend by 5% as compensation. ”

"Cut dividends?" Donn was a little surprised, and his impression of Peter Jackson was much better, "It doesn't have to be. Don't forget, he's Peter Jackson! In his films, it's much harder to lose money than to make money, at most it's a little less. ”

"Are you saying that the box office of "King Kong" will buck the trend? Yes, the media has a good reputation. ”

Don shook his head and said: "No, with a 3-hour film length...... it is impossible for "King Kong" to recover its investment through the box office." But don't forget, Peter Jackson's area of expertise has never been the box office market, it's the DVD market!"

The Lord of the Rings trilogy grossed nearly $3 billion for Warner worldwide.

However, it was the DVD sales and rental market that made Warner so profitable.

What Peter Jackson does best is playing bootlegging.

A lot of content is not suitable for playing in the cinema, and he will stuff it into the DVD version and print the director's extended version.

The total duration of the Lord of the Rings trilogy is 10 hours, but the DVD version is brutally lengthened to 12 hours.

Can movie fans not buy it?

It's something you can't see in a movie theater.

The same is true of King Kong.

187 minutes for the cinema version, ...... for the DVD version 220 minutes!

Want to see more of the heroine Naomi Watts?

Want to see more of her interaction with gorillas?

Check out the DVD version!

In the previous life, after the DVD version of "King Kong" was launched, it sold more than $100 million in just one week, setting a historical record. The sales volume within one year was 470 million US dollars, excluding about 30% of the cost, channel fee, labor cost, dividends, and transportation costs......

DVD sales alone are enough to pay for themselves!

Fernando Bardem breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good. ”

Tang En said solemnly: "However, you can't be loose on your side, and you must continue to put pressure on Peter Jackson!"

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