The profits that VCD can bring to the Eastern Group in the short term are naturally far inferior to those of the computer industry, which is becoming more and more mature. However, the potential of the audio-visual industry should not be underestimated, and VCD and subsequent digital players such as super VCD, DVD, and high-definition DVD will have a golden period of 15 to 20 years before being replaced by Internet streaming media.

It is difficult for people in China to appreciate the huge market of the film and television entertainment industry in the United States. Because piracy is rampant in China, you can buy a pirated disc for ten or even five yuan. However, European and American countries have very strict copyright protection, for example, after the DVD of the animated film "Frozen" was released, the total sales exceeded 18 million sets within a year, and the total sales were as high as 3. $400 million.

It is important to know that the two most important topics in the daily social interaction of Americans are neither political and military news, nor financial stock news, but sports news and entertainment news.

Even in the future, under the impact of the Internet, DVD sales will begin to decline. But in fact, Americans' consumption of film and television entertainment has not decreased, but has become an Internet viewing. Therefore, the market value of Netflix in later generations, at the peak of its stock price in 2015, once even exceeded $55 billion.

Li Xuan's plan for Blockbuster naturally learned a lesson from another time and space. As the curtain of the Internet era slowly opens, the rules of the game in the global economy will face a new round of reshuffle. Traditional companies that can't adapt to the new economic era are bound to be eliminated soon.

However, it is still only the embryonic stage of Internet commercialization, and the focus of Blockbuster's next development is the company. It will also focus on the traditional model of physical store expansion. And Li Xuan deliberately flew from Hong Kong to Dallas this time, naturally not because of the acquisition of Blockbuster.

This kind of $20 million merger and acquisition is just a small snack for the current Eastern Group. There was no need for Li Xuan to come forward in person. He just happened to be at the right time, and suddenly learned that the group had acquired a company that had some impressions from his previous life, and he came up with the idea of asking the founder Cook to meet with him.

The real purpose of Li Xuan's visit to the United States this time is to stand up for the Bush family. The new presidential election is in full swing, and judging from the current situation, the advantages of Bush Sr. are still very obvious.

However, Li Xuan is not an American after all, and it is very taboo to stand directly at the front desk to give Bush an old ticket. A wealthy foreigner like him. At such a moment, it is necessary to avoid suspicion, so as not to make American voters have a bad association of collusion between officials and businessmen. Therefore, Li Xuan did come to the United States at the invitation of the Bush family this time, but he was not prepared to meet with Bush Sr.

"Hi. George, long time no see!" Li Xuan and Bush Jr., who had just entered the door, hugged warmly.

"Lee, you should come to Texas often, Ted always complains like me. You boss doesn't care too much about your team!" Bush said with a spring breeze on his face.

"The best way I care about the team. It's just to sign a check for a large enough amount! The Rangers have had a good start this year, and I hope we can go one step further this year than last year!" Li Xuan said with a smile.

The Texas Rangers lost 3-4 to the Oakland Athletics in last year's Nations League finals and failed to make it to the final World Series. However, since Li Xuan bought the team, the Rangers have changed their image of fish belly for many years and have reached the playoffs for three consecutive years.

Due to the Rangers' excellent record in recent years, the ball market has become more and more popular. Before the start of the new season this year, all 2. All 40,000 home season tickets were sold out in half a month. In the face of such a good situation. Since last year, the club's management has lobbied the city of Arlington to support the team's new baseball stadium. After all, Arlington Stadium, the home stadium used by the Rangers now. It's actually an American football stadium.

The City of Arlington finally passed a bill earlier this year to provide land for the new stadium. The total budget for the new stadium is as high as 1. $600 million, although most of the funds can be raised through loans, Li Xuan, the boss, still needs to pull out nearly $50 million in cash.

According to the construction plan, the new stadium will be officially completed in 1990, that is, before the opening of the next season. When the new course is put into operation, the profitability of the ball group will inevitably usher in a huge leap. Although Li Xuan's investment is huge, as long as the Rangers can maintain the current hot ball market, the valuation of the entire team will also be greatly increased, which is definitely not a loss-making transaction for Li Xuan.

The two sat in the luxurious box specially prepared for Li Xuan, the boss of the ball group, and the television station responsible for the live broadcast quickly pointed the lens of one of the live broadcast cameras at the box, and the images of Li Xuan and Bush Jr. immediately appeared on the huge display screen at the scene.

Li Xuan and George W. Bush smiled separately and waved to the camera. Many fans at the scene immediately burst into cheers, and it was their cooperation that brought a new round of revival to the Rangers. George W. Bush also gained great prestige as general manager of the Rangers, and then succeeded in the 1986 midterm elections as the Texas land commissioner.

And now George W. Bush has even greater ambitions, and he is ready to storm the Texas governor's throne. Bush Jr. was in good fortune, as the current governor of Texas, veteran Republican Bill Clements, was embroiled in a scandal last year involving Southern Methodist University in illegally soliciting sports students.

Although the NCAA is a non-professional league, the value created by the NCAA's football, basketball and other programs is not inferior to that of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States. For example, in order to obtain the broadcasting rights of NCAA football and basketball games, major television stations in the United States need to pay a huge amount of broadcast fees every year.

If a university has an outstanding sports team, the revenue from broadcast revenue and ticket sales alone can bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the university every year. Therefore, colleges and universities in the United States often go to great lengths to attract the most athletically gifted high school students to choose themselves.

In fact, the NCAA has set strict rules for this purpose, such as sports special admissions who want to be admitted to universities and represent the school in competitions, they must meet certain standards in cultural classes.

However, many schools still repeatedly break the bottom line in the face of interests, such as cheating students' academic results and issuing scholarships in violation of regulations. Southern Methodist University was one of them, but its actions happened to be exposed by the media, and it turned into a scandal.

Bill Clements served as governor of Texas and a trustee of Southern Methodist University. According to the investigation, the school board had known about the PE department's violations in advance, but they did not stop it.

In other words, Bill Clements also knew in advance, but when he was initially questioned by the media, he said that he did not know. So the incident escalated into a question about the personal integrity of the Texas governor.

Faced with such serious moral allegations, Clements was forced to announce early that he would not seek re-election at the end of his term in order to quell the attacks of the Democratic Party and public opinion. Bill Clements had performed very well in the previous term and a half, and he would have probably run for a third term as governor on behalf of the Republican Party.

If Clements chooses to continue running, it will be difficult for George W. Bush to compete with him within the party. But now that the other side announced the launch ahead of schedule because of the scandal, this is undoubtedly huge good news for George W. Bush.

Texas was originally the nest of the Bush family, and the elder Bush is likely to win this year's presidential race. Coupled with the challenge of whether there is a heavyweight rival in the party, George W. Bush is likely to receive overwhelming support from within the Republican Party when he announces his candidacy for governor two years later.

George W. Bush's gubernatorial campaign prospects are promising, but politics is always unpredictable, and no one knows if there will be surprises until the dust settles on the results. So even Bush Jr. still needs to use some means to continuously improve his prestige among voters in the remaining two years.

The most effective way to win over voters is undoubtedly to provide more and better job opportunities and raise people's income levels. One of the most important purposes of Li Xuan's visit to Texas is to sign a large-scale investment agreement with the Texas state government and the city of Austin.

The area south of San Francisco Bay is known as Silicon Valley, and there is another place in the United States known as Silicon Mound, and it is Austin. Compared with the world-famous Silicon Valley, the rise of Silicon Hill is much later. It was not until 1983 that the first large-scale high-tech enterprise in Austin, MCC, was established in Austin by the Texas Township Government, the City of Austin, and the University of Texas at Austin, together with a number of high-tech companies across the United States.

After the establishment of MCC, each high-tech company involved in the joint venture will regularly send people to work in Austin. Over time, executives of various companies have gradually discovered that Austin is actually a very good place to live. As a result, IBM, Motorola, HP, Intel and other companies began to set up branches here. Austin has gradually become another high-tech R&D center in the United States in addition to Silicon Valley.

However, this process of spontaneous industrial agglomeration cannot be completed overnight. In fact, when Silicon Hill began to become famous, it was already in the late nineties. Naturally, the City of Austin wanted to accelerate the process of agglomeration, and that would require a company to lead the way.

So with the help of George W. Bush, the Eastern Bloc and the city of Austin got closer and closer, and finally reached a large-scale investment agreement! )

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