Chapter 784: Black Technology and New Games
On June 10, 1993, Xinfei Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., the release of new products DVD and DVD-ROM, like a silent thunder, shook the world's technology industry!
"A disc stores 3.6GB of data for just $1. This type of disc is called a DVD disc, and it is a next-generation general-purpose data disc with a larger storage capacity than a CD disc. This fantastic technology does not just stay in the laboratory, but has been successfully developed as a commercial product. It is reported that DVD technology is an optical storage laboratory under the new venture electronics group, which has been put into research and development soon after the research and development of CD-ROM and VCD technologies. Between 91 ~ 93 years, Xinchuang Electronics Group has registered more than 4,000 basic patents around DVD-related technologies...... In other words, the technology was mature before it was announced. With the new venture electronics group, its listed company Xinfei Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., after the privatization and delisting of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Japan, immediately licensed DVD-related technology to Xinfei Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., and the DVD research and development team Jiang Wanmeng and others joined Xinfei Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. and took over the management of Xinfei Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., which shows that Xinfei is delisted, and the more important reason is the strategic transformation, and the next step will be from the CD and VCD-based product line to the new product line based on DVD-ROM and DVD player……”
"Xinfei Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. released DVD and DVD-ROM related products. The price of a DVD player is $799, and the price of a DVD-ROM drive is $599! It is reported that the main reason why the price far exceeds that of VCD and CD drives is that the capacity of a DVD disc has been increased from 650 MB to 3.5 GB. The capacity has been increased several times, so that DVD discs can read and write larger programs and high-definition audio...... Just like the DVD-ROM technology exhibition, a "Biochemical Survival" that attracted the attention of a large number of gamers, the game capacity is up to 3.26GB, the current mainstream computer hard disk configuration is only 1GB, most players can't even put this game into the hard disk! A disc with a larger storage capacity than the hard disk, this is DVD! Xinfei Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., even for DVD drives and video discs, quoted several times more expensive than the previous CD drives and VCDs, but due to advanced technology, it is determined that it must have huge market potential!"
"From CD-ROM to DVD-ROM optical storage, it is not intended to be the cheapest storage in this era, but also the largest capacity storage! A cardboard-thin disc can write 3.6GB of data, which is equivalent to tens of thousands of books, condensed into a single disc. Jiang Wanmeng, the new CEO of Xinfei Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., said that when the DVD product was released, mass production had begun, and the fastest batch of products could be sold on Tesco at the end of June. As for the full distribution of goods, it depends on the mass production speed of the factory, as well as the order enthusiasm of agents and distributors around the world. Of course, DVD-ROM is expected to be seen on Pangu 8 generation computers, and there are no compatibility problems with Pangu computers above 6 generations. ”
"Xinfei Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., after the despicable delisting, began to announce the release of DVD products. Although, legally, there may not be a problem, after all, the DVD is from the New Venture Electronics Group Company, not the New Flying Electronic Technology Company. However, in terms of business ethics, this kind of practice is unintentionally despicable, knowing that there will soon be subversive and explosive products that will be injected into the company, but they choose privatization and delisting, and are unwilling to share benefits with more small and medium-sized shareholders! Even if this kind of company wins the market and profits, it loses its conscience and moral ......."
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As some technology media commented, although the price of DVD players and DVD-ROMs is not cheap, as a new technology product with a disc storage capacity exceeding that of hard disks, it is actually cost-effective.
For the computer industry and ordinary computer users, computer data storage has always been in a state of inadequacy.
For example, the most commonly used hard disks, although the capacity has been increasing, it has always felt that the hard disks are not enough due to the new requirements and functional requirements of users for computers.
IBM introduced the hard disk in 1956, which is the size of two refrigerators and stores only 5MB of data. This early hard drive, which was only 5MB, was used on a mainframe computer and weighed more than 1 ton.
In 1973, the Winchester hard drive was introduced, a classic hard drive with two 30MB storage units, but the size of a current personal computer, and the weight reached tens of kilograms.
Around 1980, Seagate began to make 5.25-inch 5MB hard drives, which could fit into microcomputers, but of course, this was also a bulky luxury, and a hard drive weighed several kilograms. The price is also over $1000. Basically, it's a sky-high price of $200 for 1MB of storage.
It is for this reason that early Apple computers and PCs did not use hard disks to store software programs, but instead used magnetic tapes for storage.
Of course, in the 80s, hard drives became smaller and larger for less, so users became accustomed to using hard drives to load operating systems and applications.
However, hard disks are limited in capacity and cannot be easily carried. So, the user needs to have some portable storage, which is floppy disk at the beginning. However, the price of floppy disks is not cheap, and the capacity of floppy disks can only reach 1.44MB! And a 1.44MB piece of software, the price was as high as more than $10 at the beginning, even if the price was reduced with popularity and mass production, but it was not less than $1 a piece.
$1 floppy disk, only 1.44MB of data.
A CD disc that came out in the 80s could store 650MB of data, which is equivalent to the storage capacity of 400 floppy disks. The price is only $0.1 per ticket.
Consumers hardly need to hesitate to ditch floppy disks in favor of optical discs.
Originally, the elimination process of floppy disks was not gradually replaced by optical discs until at least the 90s. But the new venture electronics group has advanced the popularization of optical discs and the elimination of floppy disks by at least five years!
In 93, the mainstream configuration of Pangu computers, hard disks or 1G capacity is the mainstream. Although, compared to the 80s, the capacity is larger. But it is also a game with a capacity of up to 600MB. If a player directly loads a game on the computer's hard drive, then there will generally be no room for other games in the short term.
Therefore, many hardcore players are still inseparable from CD discs. Unless the CD disc is too slow to read the data and affect the game experience, the game will be loaded into a faster hard drive to play. Under normal circumstances, players use discs to play games, which is still the mainstream at present.
When you insert a disc when playing a specific game, the computer's hard drive retains the game's save data. This practice is currently the mainstream, as for, it can be loaded with more than 10GB of hard disk, and there are a bunch of games on the plate, in this era, it already belongs to the home with mines. Or is it......
More than 600MB of a disc of the game is installed on the hard disk, which has made many players feel that the hard disk space is very tight and insufficient. Not to mention the 3.5GB of DVD disc for the game!
Therefore, for a long time, players wanted to experience masterpieces, such as the current 3.26GB capacity of "BioSurge", most of them need to read data on the disc to play.
Due to the short-lived game of "BioShock", which was shown for less than an hour, just through the word of mouth of players at the press conference and some media reports, the hardcore gamers around the world have been tickled in their hearts and continue to grow hair!
Stimulated by "BioChem", many players are ready to buy DVD drives with little money. If you have a mine at home, you will start to upgrade the capacity of your hard drive......
For many players, DVD-ROM technology is awesome, but it is worth buying because of the quality of the new game "BioDynamics"!