Chapter 310: HD

On June 3, 1985, the newly established film and television entertainment company also formally established a group company to integrate its resources.

The new start-up film and television company was small in scale at the beginning, and at the beginning, it was only investment-oriented, cooperating with companies with film and television production experience such as Golden Harvest and New Art City to jointly develop some projects.

But with the acquisition of Li's TV, one of the two major TV stations in Hong Kong, the new venture film and television group quickly separated from the local tyrants outside the circle.

A few days ago, the new venture film and television group acquired the old Radio Television Hong Kong again, further demonstrating the company's determination to become a big media.

This upgrade to become a group company also means that Lin Qi has upgraded its strategy.

Because it not only integrates its TV stations, radio stations, film and television production, music production and star brokerage business.

Moreover, Lin Qi also injected some scientific and technological genes into it.

Now the new entrepreneurship department can be called the consortium with the highest technology content in the entire Chinese world and the consumer market.

So, if a new start-up company doesn't play with some high-end technology, what kind of system will it become?

At the beginning of June, Lin Qi revealed in an exclusive interview with Xingchen Channel: "The name change of the new entrepreneurial film and television group is not just a matter of changing the name, in fact, we will have a relatively large action in the future." ”

"Mr. Lin, can you reveal a little bit about the specifics of the big move?" the host said curiously, "Could it be that it is to dominate the Hong Kong entertainment industry?"

"No, Hong Kong is an important platform for us to experiment with content, but the direction of our strategic development is the world. Lin Qi explained, "Moreover, it is not only in terms of work creation or talent scale, but more importantly, in terms of technological innovation." That's right, in the future, we will also have a lot of patents and products like Xinfei and Xinchuang Electronic Technology Company! Take television as an example, the TV set used by our audience is someone else's brand, can we do it ourselves? In fact, in the laboratory of Xinchuang Electronics Company, there have long been video technology standards with higher pixel resolution, but limited to the resolution of today's television sets, even if we launch more high-definition works, it will be greatly discounted. So, sooner or later, we're going to have to make a TV set!"

"Really, I'm looking forward to it, if the new venture brand TV goes on the market, will we employees be able to buy it at a discount?"

"Of course...... However, you can apply for a trial and submit a report of no less than 2,000 words every month, at least three months after the experience report, and you can get one for free. Lin Qi said mysteriously.

"I believe that the audience in front of the TV is very curious, why did Mr. Lin enter the entertainment industry and found a new entrepreneurial film and television entertainment group?" the host asked.

"Because, in the beginning, my work was only telling stories to readers through words, so the market was very small. In the future, I will set up a new start-up electronics company and gradually start making video games, because games are a new form of cultural entertainment. Because of the achievements in the aspect, I further believe that film and television should also be included, and the investment in film and television is also because the current development of film and television in Hong Kong has long been unable to meet the requirements of a discerning audience like me, and the quality is not comparable with Hollywood blockbusters, so I want to compete and make high-end works!

Hong Kong's film and television dramas take the low-end route and can only have a certain market share in Asia. Moreover, in the long run, it will give the world's audience the impression that the Chinese can only make shoddy film and television works.

Now, the audience in many parts of the world is very poor, they don't have a choice, and they can still accept those low-end works.

However, times are constantly evolving, and sooner or later they will be able to afford better TVs and VCDs and watch movies and TV shows from various countries. In the end, audiences in various regions will be competing for high-quality content from all over the world, and Hong Kong movies are still of the same quality as before, so sooner or later they will be abandoned by global audiences.

Therefore, we have made some high-end works to tell the audience all over the world that the Chinese civilization has a long history, and the level of literary and artistic creation has been the world's first-class level since ancient times. Now, even if the level of literary and artistic creation is at a low ebb because the entire Chinese society is very poor, as long as we come up with enough costs, we have first-class geniuses and masters, and we can create masterpieces that are considered first-class in the world!

It's not like I'm bragging, we have made world-class works in animation! Although Felix Animation is not a new venture film and television group, it is also a brother company after all. From the very beginning, this animation company has used pure computers to produce animation, which is not used in the world. His two works, "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" and "Court of Avalon", use far more advanced technology than any other company. The cost of production is also astronomical, the total budget of the first part is about 50 million, and the cost of the second animation is 137 million yuan. In this process, we took the lead in using new technologies that have never been used by other animation production companies in the world, and these technologies are still our own originality, so we can create miracles! I invest in a new start-up film and television company, and naturally hope that this company will do the same in the future and become a great company!"

"Although the quality and richness of our program content have improved after Mr. Lin acquired our station, there are still many viewers who complain that our station's animation and TV series only broadcast one episode a week, which is not as refreshing as TVB's broadcast one episode a day. The host asked, "As the boss of the company, will Mr. Lin make some changes after hearing the demands of those audiences?"

"No!" Lin Qi said as if he insisted on the truth, "Like TVB, several directors take turns filming, and actors rush everywhere." It takes a day or two to finish filming an episode, and with such a fast progress, not only people are too tired. Moreover, there may not be time to polish the show. Perhaps, some TVB TV dramas are very good, but that is accidental, and most of them are not of good quality. Good drama, I believe that the audience will not wait a week to watch the next episode, but wait for a year, and the mood of anticipation will not change. ”

"Mr. Lin said before that there are some higher-resolution videos in the laboratory, but the current TV can't display them?

"Of course, we have a lot of technologies, one of which is an upgraded version of the current CD and VCD, and we haven't decided whether to name it Super VCD or something else in the future. In short, the minimum of this technology is also 720×480 resolution, and now only some high-end TVs that sell more expensive can support this resolution. But this resolution is still not clear enough, and our new technology is the lowest lower limit of resolution. In fact, it can also support 800×600, 1024×768, 1440×900 and many more higher resolutions. Some businesses continue to claim how many tens of thousands of pixels, which seems to be very powerful, but the 800×600 resolution is only 480,000 pixels, and we feel that this resolution discrimination is very low. With the continuous development of semiconductor technology, in the future, high-definition annotation will be pixels that can reach millions, millions, or even tens of millions of pixels...... Now the audience can only look at us vaguely, and in the future, the resolution will be high to a certain extent, and not a single hair can be seen clearly. At present, we can come up with this technology, but if the resolution of the TV screen is not up, it is useless for us to take it out!

Today's viewers watch TV, especially on radio waves, and the resolution is much lower than the theoretical resolution of a television set! So, I'm planning to launch a high-definition cable TV service. The program is transmitted through a high-definition line, and a set-top box with a decoding chip is used to re-decode the data, and the audience can see the program again, which can achieve the highest definition that the TV can display. Of course, in the long run, we still need to build a higher definition TV than the market to solve the technical bottleneck of the current TV screen......"

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Lin Qi said that he wanted to build a TV set, and he did have plans in this regard, after all, a few years ago, Lin Qi laid out the LCD industry chain. Starting from the lowest-end black and white TN LCD screen, we gradually began to cultivate technical talents and process level of the entire industrial chain.

At present, the whole world's TVs and monitors are still dominated by CRT, but the shortcomings of CRT displays will be gradually exposed in the future consumption upgrades. For example, the increase in production costs for sizes over 40 inches will make them very uneconomical.

In addition, the CRT display resolution is relatively low, and it can generally reach the level of 640x480, which is 480P. Even if some improvements and upgrades were made later, their technical potential was tapped to the extreme, and the resolution reached 1024x768, which is already considered the high-end of the CRT screen.

There are also a series of shortcomings such as high power consumption, bulkyness, etc., which limit its continued development.

It is precisely for this reason that in the 90s, CRT TV and computer screens for display screens gradually began to fade out of the historical stage, and new display technologies such as liquid crystal and plasma gradually began to become upgraded products.

As a person who knows the future direction of technology development, Lin Qi naturally knows that the LCD screen finally won a big victory and became the dominant player in the display market, so he attached great importance to the LCD industry from the beginning.

Now, the more mature in the world is the TN LCD screen, and the most primitive version is the black ** crystal. This kind of screen is still the most widely used, electronic watches, calculators, handhelds, and even Pangu laptops are used as displays.

In the 80s, the Japanese LCD industry improved the effect that TN could only display black and white images. So, STN, an early transitional color LCD screen, was introduced. Of course, the display effect of STN is not very good, so Lin Qi did not treat it as a treasure, although he has mastered some STN liquid crystal formulas in the laboratory, but Lin Qi did not let it be commercialized.

So much so that the LCD screen launched by the new venture electronics company is generally TN black crystal screen.

Of course, the TFT-LCD LCD panel, which will be popular in the future, has made a major technological breakthrough in Xinai Electronics, a mainland subsidiary of the New Entrepreneurship Department. The laboratory has been able to manufacture LCD screens with a resolution of 1440×900.

Commercial production is another matter, if it is mass-produced, it can only achieve 800×600 resolution TFT-LCD LCD LCD screens, and the screen size is less than 10 inches.

Therefore, even if TFT-LCD LCD screens are mass-produced in the early stage, they will only be used in markets such as notebook computers and handheld computers, and will not be used in TVs and desktop displays.

In June 1985, after the establishment of the new venture film and television group, its Xingchen TV launched a new service -- Xingchen TV high-definition cable TV service! In the future, it will be charged 10 yuan per month, and the whole year can be discounted to 100 yuan. Of course, it's currently on sale, and users can try it for free for 24 months. At the end of 24 months, you can continue to use it if you pay the VIP membership fee. If you do not pay, you will stop watching the program content.

Of course, users who apply for this service only need to pay a deposit of HK$300 to bring the fiber optic line to their home. If you do not continue to renew in the future, you will be refunded the original payment of 300 yuan.

In fact, it's not the digital set-top boxes and servers that are the most technological, but - fiber optics!

This cable television network is more than optical fiber, and it can be upgraded to a local area network or even a part of the Internet at any time! Moreover, the Internet speed is fast, far ahead of the Internet access speed of the times!

In the early 80s, optical fiber was just popularized, and it was mainly used to build optical cables to enhance the communication transmission speed between countries around the world.

In this era, closed-circuit television is generally dominated by copper wires, and the programs watched are analog signals. Although Lin Qi thinks that this kind of closed-circuit TV is not good, at least it is much more stable than wireless signals.

The reason why Hong Kong's television industry has regressed from the original era of cable closed-circuit television to the era of TVB. This is not because of the advanced technology of wireless TV, but because of the cheapness of wireless TV.

Radio and television were born earlier than cable television, and the reason why it became popular faster was simply because there were many poor people in Hong Kong at the beginning, and most families could not afford to install cable television. A wireless station only needs a TV and a receiver antenna to watch programs for free.

However, with the economic development of Hong Kong, the spending power of the audience has gradually increased. Today, there must be more and more viewers who can afford to consume high-definition TV programs. Lin Qi also directly skipped the traditional closed-circuit television technology, but transmitted digital signals on optical fiber, and then equipped with a high-definition set-top box to decode the data, so that the audience can see the clarity of the program, which will far exceed the traditional closed-circuit television with copper wire transmission data.

After the 90s, Hong Kong was a cable TV war. The major service providers are all greedy for the cable TV market, including TVB, which is also dominated by cable TV. Because, wireless TV signals, do not support high-definition programs.

It is precisely because of this that Lin Qi directly took precautions and occupied the market in advance. Moreover, in the future, this complete set of high-definition cable TV network and set-top box solutions can be exported to different countries around the world. The value of this piece of market cake is obviously much larger than that of the television market that monopolizes Hong Kong.