Karaoke doesn't seem to have much technical content, so it's easy to give the illusion that "this thing has been around for a long time".

But in fact, that thing also requires step-by-step technology accumulation and market accumulation, and the European and American markets in 1981 have never seen it.

The earliest prototype of karaoke, or the business model of "playing an accompaniment tape on the stereo and mixing it with a real singing voice", can be traced back to Kobe in 1971. However, it soon fell into a sluggish lawsuit period of two or three years.

Because the resident accompaniment bands of many entertainment venues found that there was a career crisis, they joined forces with the music copyright owners to fight lawsuits to suppress them.

The audio tapes previously released by the music copyright owner must have been sung with lyrics, and it is impossible to issue a special accompaniment tape, so the early accompaniment tape must have been pirated. It took two or three years for the lawsuit to be fooled around before the legal risks were cleared.

After 1975, with Sony's BetaMax videotape standard, after losing the battle for the right to set standards with its American counterparts (you can understand that in the 21st century, Sony and Universal Warner competed for the right to set technical standards for "Blu-ray" discs, a reason. If you can't imagine it, imagine that it is now a case between Huawei and Qualcomm and the conscience of US imperialism. ）

In order to find a way out of the residual value for BetaMax, Sony coincidentally gave birth to "Zhen Karaoke" with MTV (the previous ones only had an accompaniment tape and no picture)

Coincidentally, Sony's BetaMax videotape standard, compared with the winning standard at the time, although there are various disadvantages, but its duration of each videotape is relatively short, and the speed of fast rewind positioning is fast, so it is especially suitable for karaoke songs, and there is no trouble of "in order to order the 10th song in this tape, you have to pour three minutes of tape first".

After a few years of copyright wars, by 1978, commercial karaoke began to appear in the market, and tape companies such as Sony Music (which could not be called record companies at that time, because there were many more carriers of tapes than CDs) also began to engage in music and television videotapes, enriching the MTV library, and the industry complemented each other and gradually matured.

In contrast, although the European and American markets can learn the innovation of equipment overnight, the accumulation of artistic materials cannot be achieved quickly, and karaoke has not been developed for a long time.

To put it mildly, the music companies of Universal and Warner have not yet made MTV tapes like I did, so I have no way to do karaoke, and everyone is still staying at buying live bands to accompaniment. It's a bit like "Nokia has created a new system, but the application software vendors don't buy it and don't develop apps for you".

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Gu Biao didn't have much research on this in his previous life, but in this life, he went to the United States and Yue Ben a lot, observed the cultural and entertainment differences between the two places, and had a personal experience.

If he made the decision himself, of course, he didn't have to know why. But in order to convince others, it is better to make the truth clear and let people see the future.

"It turns out that the Americans don't do it because the Americans don't have much demand for it, and they don't have enough English song video accompaniment tapes. And we Chinese can directly take my own video accompaniment and bring pirated copies to play...... It's just a long time coming, and these songs that are popular all over the world at the moment are all covers of songs composed by the little girls!"

After listening to a few sets of MTV accompaniment tapes brought by Gu Biao, Feng Pao suddenly realized and hummed along.

There are no lyrics in the accompaniment band, so the Chinese song and the Japanese song are exactly the same.

After deciding to do it according to Gu Ao's order, Feng Pao asked: "Why don't you install two or three rooms for the time being?" If the business is good, I will expand the purchase. This 31-inch big color TV,That's a must-buy for Sharp,It's not that big in China。 Since videotapes and video recorders are such an obscure standard as BetaMax, they can only use Sony first, and other homes don't have them. Director Gu, I can't scrape together so much foreign exchange on hand. ”

"The standard contract for the financial lease of this equipment was signed, and then the money was recovered according to the investment. Gu Biao threw away a piece of paper, and didn't ask the other party for a RMB deposit.

The standard contract is Hanle Electronics, which is the financial leasing model that Han Ting's company used to sell game consoles when it was supposed to sell game consoles. It can be used by smearing on it and erasing some of the product names. With the contract of Hanle Electronics, it can also clear up Gu Wei's personal relationship.

He didn't care if this contract would work like this, anyway, this little money was not qualified to work at all, and he personally asked about it. If a small character like Feng Pao dares to make money, Gu Biao has a hundred ways to die, and he doesn't need the law at all.

"I'm going to get something with this piece of paper?" Feng Paohu asked suspiciously.

"Someone will bring it tomorrow, you just have to get it done. Gu Biao left after speaking.

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After being instructed, three days later, Gu Biao found a time to get off work, under the pretext of inviting a few colleagues to build a team.

Director Bao and Qin Guogang were both invited to play, and they suddenly felt more decent.

A 31-inch large color TV, an imported video recorder, a special accompaniment videotape, and the stereo sound of the audio and video effects is also very good.

"It's kind of interesting. Where did you learn it?" Although Director Bao didn't find a red song that was too much in line with his aesthetics, he was still full of praise.

The new sofa in Shanghai is equipped with fruit platters and foreign wines, which is an added value that Monagasques will definitely not see, but it is a sweet treat for domestic guests who come to experience it.

Gu Biao replied casually: "I learned it, I heard that it was because their land was too valuable, Tokyo was too crowded, and people who wanted to find backing singers couldn't afford to raise a band, so they engaged in this kind of bargain." ”

"Xiao Yue is going to use this kind of bad brain. Qin Guogang complained.

"Don't talk about that, let's see if there's anything bad about it? In a few days, we will have a banquet for international friends. ”

Director Bao spread out on the sofa and didn't want to get up: "Come on, you Xiao Gu is a person who has seen the world with Kissinger, you don't feel anything wrong, what else can we say?

Well, you can open an acoustic soundtrack for me, it's not interesting to just listen to the accompaniment when no one is singing. What do we big men have to sing, you are such a good stereo, play Teresa Teng's song for me, let's enjoy it. ”

Gu Biao was speechless for a while.

Karaoke is an innovation, and it is worth the money in the accompaniment video + singing.

You old boy back to the level of playing the soundtrack, isn't that a step backwards in history?

But people are good at this, and Gu Biao can't help it. Experience this thing,It has nothing to do with whether the technology is advanced or not,The key depends on what the user lacks to make up,People just fell in love with the imported sound effect that Gu Biao hurriedly got back。

Sure enough, after Gu Biao took a Japanese soundtrack of Teresa Teng, Director Bao quickly leaned on the sofa and drank a small wine and went over.

Gu Biao smiled bitterly: You old hats, after listening to the effect of my imported audio, you have fallen, and the royal family of Monaco has never seen any shocking sound effects!

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After some nervous preparations, it was finally the day when Princess Kelly and Princess Tiffany quietly came to travel.

Gu Biao took leave that day and personally drove to the suburban airport to pick up the plane.

There are not many planes in the international area, that is, the terminal, so there are not many people waiting for pick-up at the exit of that area - as mentioned earlier, the terminal of the capital airport was built just last year.

For decades before that, there was no need for a terminal, and passengers took the shuttle bus or walked to the tarmac and boarded the plane by the gangway.

The appearance of the terminal of the capital airport was built for the first Boeing 747 last year that was too high and the gangway could not reach.

After it was built, although there is still only one Boeing 747, the terminal is not wasteful, so all international flights are moved to this area and all are boarded on the bridge. Domestic flights continue to use shuttle buses and gangways.

Therefore, the pick-up people who can wait in the international area are all on board, and there are only three or four planes arriving at the scene every hour.

Gu Biao saw that the time was almost up, and listened to the arrival information on the radio, so he stood on the mouth and waited.

After a while, I saw a little girl wearing sunglasses, pulled by a middle-aged and elderly woman who also wore sunglasses, walking towards this side.

There are also middle-aged people in cultural shirts, pipes in their mouths, and meaty faces, as well as playboys with oily hair and powdery faces, and of course, the most must be strong men.

"Gu, I have finally come to this mysterious country. Tiffany trotted over, still with a small handbag in her hand, and punched him lightly.

"Welcome to play. Gu Biao showed his enthusiasm just right, and then immediately returned to his very polite appearance, "Your Royal Highness the Princess, you are really a good mother who dotes on her daughter. ”

Princess Kelly originally had a little resentment accumulated due to exhaustion, but being praised by Gu Biao like this also dissipated a lot.

In contrast, if Gu Biao praised her personally, or was cold and polite, she would not have this effect.

"If you know, let me worry less about this time and help me take care of her. Colonel Princess Kelly said.

"Of course, the safety of foreign guests in our country is the most important thing, you can rest assured. Gu Biao said gently, "By the way, do you have a travel itinerary? If it is arranged, I can take you there, if not, I can help you arrange it." ”

"There are arrangements, and the tour is in this order. Princess Kelly said as her assistant handed over a list in English.

Obviously, he knew that Gu Biao would be their guide and took care of Gu Biao's French.

Otherwise, these guys, who live in Paris every day, must have written French.

Just as Gu Biao was about to make arrangements, a commotion next to him disrupted the situation.

Next to Gu Biao, there was originally another small group of people who picked up the airport, holding a sign before. Because the sign was written in Italian and French, Gu Biao couldn't read it, so he didn't pay attention.

At this moment, as if they had not found anyone to pick up, they began to ask respectfully one by one: "Hello sir/ma'am, do you know that Mr. Bertolucci is on this plane?

After a while, the innocent fat man with a meaty face and a pipe culture shirt was pointed out to the pick-up person.

"Hey, I'm Bertolucci, I'm here to travel and investigate. The fat man was very dissatisfied.

"Mr. Bertolucci, we have no ill intentions, we are here to be your guide - may I introduce myself, I am from the diplomatic department, my colleagues are from the cultural department, and we are very welcome to the Italian cultural community......"

"I ...... I didn't say I wanted to shoot something, I just wanted to see it!

"will not interfere with your free activities. ”

Tiffany on the side looked at it and was slightly unhappy: "Gu! How did you do it, are your countries making such a fuss?" The mother concubine has already enrolled me as a 'student' in order to keep a low profile, and came with me as a follower. As a result, you don't let go of a foreign director!"

"Maybe the 'umbrella' itself is still too conspicuous. If you find a rookie who hasn't even won the Palme d'Or, you may be able to evade the relevant authorities...... But don't worry, I'll help you out. ”

Gu Biao sighed in his heart: I can only say that at present, people with a little fame from foreign countries come to visit, and the treatment is too good.