In other stores in Akihabara, Zhang Heng bought two latest portable tape recorders about the size of A4 paper, one is Philips and the other is SONY, and he used 2,500 Hong Kong dollars, which is an astonishing price.

He Jie thought he was going to take it back and give it away, so he didn't say anything.

If she knew that these two high-priced machines would end up being dismantled into parts in the laboratory, she didn't know if she would be able to keep her peace.

After returning to the hotel for lunch, the group got on the Coaster and headed for Osaka.

Sharp is headquartered in Nagaike Town, Abeno Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, about 500 kilometers from Shiba Park in Tokyo, but fortunately, RB's expressway network is well established at this time, and they did not encounter congestion on the road, and at about 6 p.m., the car entered the city of Osaka.

At this time, it was already work time, so they did not go to Sharp again, but went directly to the hotel they had booked, a membership-only hot spring inn called "Enha-no-yu" in Nagaike Park.

Although every Chinese will retain some degree of hostility towards RB, Zhang Heng has to express admiration for the natural mountain parks that can be seen everywhere in RB cities.

Shiba Park in Tokyo and Nagaike Park in Osaka are all examples of the natural combination of high-rise buildings and green trees and streams.

As soon as the group settled down in the wooden house surrounded by greenery, Shigeru Tanaka knocked on Zhang Heng's door and informed him that Katsuhiko Machida, the head of Sharp's television division, had come to visit.

Machida Katsuhiko came directly after work, and his approach was undoubtedly to express his respect to Zhang Heng and others.

You must know that as the head of Sharp's TV business, the annual turnover is calculated in the order of billions of yen, and according to the 500 sets of orders that Zhang Heng told Shigeru Tanaka, the total amount is no more than 35 million yen.

Moreover, Machida also has an important identity, he is the eldest son-in-law of Sharp's current president Saeki Xu, in Zhang Heng's vague memory, this Machida should be the fourth president and president of Sharp in the future.

Another reason is that when it comes to the CRT display, he may have a keen sense of smell. Zhang Heng speculated like this.

Machida Katsuhiko is a young man in his early thirties, with a square face, a high forehead, a particularly large appearance, and a somewhat Buddhist smile.

Zhang Heng didn't think that this person was really a Buddha, he had basically recalled that it was this person's single-mindedness and gambler mentality during his tenure as president and president of Sharp that Sharp would sink deeper and deeper into the quagmire of liquid crystal, casting the fate of being acquired by Hon Hai in the future.

Katsuhiko Machida invited them to dinner at this membership-only hot spring inn, and the theme of the dinner was tuna, which is called tuna by the RB people and tuna by the Honge people.

When ordering wine, Machida politely asked the guests to choose by themselves, Zhang Heng ordered the "white snow" sake that sounded very meaningful, he smiled and nodded his appreciation, and when He Jie also ordered according to this, he smiled and said a long paragraph, in which the professional terms, even He Jie could not fully understand for a while.

Shigeru Tanaka came into play: "Miss Ho, 'Shirayuki' sounds feminine, but it is a beach sake made with hard water, which is called a man's sake, and perhaps you can choose 'Laurel Crown', which is Kyoto Fushimi sake made with soft water, which is called a woman's sake." ”

"So there are so many exquisite, so I'll drink 'Laurel'. He Jie is smiling, kind and has an excellent demeanor.

For a while, Machida Katsuhiko on the opposite side was slightly stunned, but fortunately, he quickly recovered his clarity, and finally didn't make Zhang Heng unhappy for too long.

Everyone toasted together, ate two bites of delicate and lubricated tuna sashimi, and then closed their hands silently, and the atmosphere was a little silent for a while.

Zhang Heng was cautious in his words and deeds, He Jie naturally didn't say anything, Lu Yun and Chen Zhenning were even more sullen, and Shigeru Tanaka naturally acted as a warm-up guest, constantly passing the conversation between Machida and Zhang Heng, barely maintaining a cold scene.

"Zhang Sang, your company should be similar to our company, I would like to ask you for your views on the CRT market, especially SONY's Trillon. Through Shigeru Tanaka's translation, Machida suddenly asked directly.

Zhang Heng was stunned for a moment, and said modestly: "Thanks to Minister Machida's high opinion, we are just a small company that has just started, compared with Sharp, which has a history of fifty years, where is we qualified to make any judgment on the CRT market." ”

Machida nodded with satisfaction: "Zhang Sang is too humble, as far as I know, your company's poster has been popular in Xiangjiang, and it is just around the corner to go to the world, as the inventor of the post, I would like to hear your point of view, sometimes, it is clearer to jump out and see the problem." ”

Since he spoke like this, Zhang Heng no longer deliberately kept a low profile, and appropriately let him understand some of his uniqueness, which is also beneficial to the next price negotiation of the display screen.

"I believe that the traditional CRT picture tube uses a spherical mask and will lead the development of TV displays. ”

The principle of CRT picture tube is the same, high-speed cathode rays are emitted through the electron gun, and after the adjustment of the deflection coil, it passes through the shadow mask hole, hits the phosphorescent material at the corresponding position on the screen to make it glow, and adjusts the power of the electron beam through the voltage, so that different light and dark light spots can be formed on the screen, so as to form various patterns and words.

The difference between black and white and color lies in the structure of the phosphorescent substance on the screen.

Under the premise that the control circuit level is consistent, the shade mask structure and the number of holes on it are the most important factors affecting the image performance of the display screen.

Machida asked, "What does Zhang Sang mean that Trilon will become the real king of the TV industry?"

"In the short term, there is still a considerable market for traditional CRT, after all, the global TV market is just starting, but in the long run, I think Trilon will firmly control the mid-to-high-end market of color TVs in the future!"

After Zhang Heng finished speaking, seeing that Machitian's face was instantly gloomy, he smiled secretly in his heart, and said with a flat expression: "In the field of CRT, since there is already a grid shade, there is not much that manufacturers can do next, either increase the size of the display screen to get more shade holes, or change the electron gun firing mode, maybe it can be improved." ”

He is talking about the future direction of CRT displays, increasing in size and improving the performance of electron guns.

The representative product of the latter is the "Diamond Long" developed by Mitsubishi, which improves SONY's "single gun and three beams" to "three guns and three beams", and the performance has indeed been slightly improved.

Machida pondered depressedly for a long time, and suddenly smiled: "I'm sorry, Zhang San, thinking of the future fate of Sharp's TV, I can't suppress the worry in my heart. ”

"Minister Machida's dedication to the public is really admirable, and I salute you. ”

Zhang Heng smiled and picked up the cup, the two of them had a drink, seeing that he was still full of worries, Zhang Heng smiled and said: "Maybe we can jump out of the trap of CRT and see a different future!"

"Jump out of the CRT rut ......" Machida muttered, his eyes suddenly lit up, his hands pressed on the tatami mats, and he bowed to Zhang Heng, "Thank you Zhang Sang for reminding him!"