Chapter 0386 - Personal Computers and Digital Music

Tang Huan not only "created" music for Fisher's salvage company's search for the Titanic, but also asked D2 to produce computer animation.

As a result, Fisher Salvage's starting position is no smaller than that of its peers with the same purpose.

Moreover, these two forms of novel blessings can be described as full of literature and art, which makes people more and more impressed by Fisher Salvage Company.

As a result, in the free and brain-opening space of the Internet, it has become the best target of April Fool's Day pranks, and has spread to reality with unexpected speed and breadth, and many information audiences have been willingly teased once.

The White House, which has already played BBS very well, also joked: "If Fisher's salvage company really found the Titanic, it is estimated that no one will believe it anymore." ”

In the midst of the noise, the single sung by Deng Lijun, the popular "MyHeartWillGoOn", unknowingly entered the Billboard 100 singles chart in the United States.

I didn't expect Tang Huan, who had such a strong influence on BBS, to just laugh at the episode of this April Fool's Day joke.

Under his instructions, the Fisher Salvage Company planned to go to the sinking area of the Titanic in the North Atlantic three times this year, and the first time now is of a pathfinder nature, and does not take the search for the target as the main focus.

Therefore, as soon as he saw this news headline, Tang Huan naturally and quickly judged that this was someone making up a joke to amuse everyone.

But it turns out that Lady Luck really favors Tang Huan's treasure hunting fleet, more than a week after April Fool's Day on April 1. Fisher Salvage Company actually found the wreckage of the Titanic, which sank thousands of meters below sea level.

And then. An interesting scene appeared. After this news was published succinctly, people's first reaction was, why are you still joking?

It can only be said that the April Fool's Day scene was too realistic. As a result, they fell into the strange circle represented by the story "The Wolf Comes".

But it was precisely because of such a huge contrast that it caused a real sensation when the CNN reporter who followed the fleet, after a brief live report on television via satellite phone.

In particular, photos taken by underwater cameras. After it was transmitted back through the satellite, people's doubts were completely dispelled.

Coincidentally, the time when Fisher Salvage Company discovered the Titanic almost coincided with the anniversary of the sinking of the legendary ship. As a result, the drama has become more and more intense.

CNN became the number one winner in this major news event, and the Fisher Salvage Company's operation was recorded by its accompanying reporters, thus grasping a large amount of first-hand on-the-spot information.

When this information was disclosed in batches, the cable news network was in the limelight for a while, even the three traditional TV news networks. also had to avoid the edge for a while.

The music composed for Fisher's Salvage Company's search for the Titanic has also attracted a lot of attention. "MyHeartWillGoOn" is making steady strides on the Billboard 100 Singles Chart.

People are no longer content to just listen to these works on cable news, but many music lovers are disappointed because of the low number of albums......

Polygram, which has been operating poorly in the United States and losing more than $200 million in the past two years, couldn't sit still anymore after seeing this market situation, and hurriedly contacted Deng Lijun, hoping that he would take advantage of the situation to produce an English song album with "MyHeartWillGoOn" as the main song.

In fact, Deng Lijun is very busy at this stage, and Gaine's "Faint Love", which has condensed her great efforts, has been produced.

In addition to the 12 songs in the original time and space, there is also an additional Chinese-style series including "Blue and White Porcelain", "Bead Curtain" and so on.

But it is precisely this second album that is a little troublesome in terms of record packaging and publicity, and "Chinese style" is a sensitive word.

Shao Yinyin's experience illustrates this problem, she took over the filming of "New Official _ I Want" in 1977, and participated in the Cannes Film Festival with the crew, appearing on the red carpet with a pink belly pocket, which the Associated Press called "ChinaDoll", which is translated into Chinese as "Chinese Doll".

As a result, the Baodao authorities were very dissatisfied with this, thinking that it should be a "doll of the Republic of China", so they blocked Shao Yinyin as a mainland spy.

Because Baodao is the largest market for Hong Kong films, after Shao Yinyin was banned, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest did not dare to ask her to film anymore.

In order to make ends meet, Shao Yinyin can only go to the stage and sing, as well as take over TV dramas.

Shao Yinyin can be seen in Li's TV dramas, as well as the current DreamWorks TV series, such as last year's popular youth idol drama "Sweet Twenty Four Flavors", in which she played a big villain - a mean female boss.

And the roles that Shao Yinyin can receive now are basically these disgusting villains.

It can be seen that Shao Yinyin's career has been greatly affected.

Deng Lijun is a star who is highly valued by the treasure island, so naturally she needs to consider these seemingly incredible political taboos.

Of course, Deng Lijun, who met Tang Huan in this time and space, must no longer be afraid of any blockades, with the strong economic backing provided by Zheru shares, she is very detached, and it is a big deal to go back and concentrate on accompanying her children and living a leisurely life.

But it is precisely because Tang Huan's backing is so superior that Deng Lijun's dedication has become stronger and stronger, and she hopes to leave her place in the music world, so she has to be careful so as not to touch the mold.

In the end, the result of the discussion was not to deliberately create any concept of "Chinese style", but to take it as a further artistic attempt after the first modern music style interpretation of Tang and Song poems.

If you have to have the title of what kind of wind, then call it "Tang Feng", anyway, Tang Huan is hiding behind the scenes and contributing a lot.

Deng Lijun still said with a smile on the phone: "This is a reward for your hard work." ”

Tang Huan accepted it calmly, and the Chinese character code he promoted was already called "Tang Code" in a vague way. Now more than one "Tang". It's normal, too.

It's not hard to imagine. As Deng Lijun's closest man and fan, the dense record version and digital CD version of "Faint Love" were sent to him for the first time, and he had a sneak peek.

The scheming Tang Huan allowed Deng Lijun to set a record, that is, "Faint Love" became the first commercially released CD record.

In addition, during the successful search for the Titanic by Fisher Salvage Company, the popularity of "MyHeartWillGoOn" has become more and more popular, and Deng Lijun's popularity in the United States. It has stepped out of the Chinese community.

Deng Lijun's comeback after the fake passport turmoil has been successfully completed, and she is now moving towards a new career height.

"The verbal reward is a bit empty, so let's be practical and help me sell a new product. Don Fan made an invitation.

I have always accepted Tang Huan's help, and now I can help my man in turn, Deng Lijun was overjoyed, and agreed to it, and then remembered to ask, what is the product.

"Of course, it has to do with music. is a CD player and drive provided for computer use. Tang Huan explained carefully.

For Epson to take the lead in launching a CD player, Sony and Philips are definitely a big surprise and a big surprise. You must know that this technology was first developed and researched by the two of them, and Tang Huan was just a third party who was added halfway.

It stands to reason that Sony and Philips should be the unyielding leaders, but this convention has failed in front of Tang Huan.

Sony and Philips, who are worried about the market prospects, hurriedly negotiated with Epson frequently, "Can you not be in a hurry to release new products, the three of us have one interest, wait for two or three months, and act in unison." ”

Yaskawa Hideaki, who had already received Tang Huan's instructions of "don't scare these two collaborators", patiently explained, "We are holding a new product launch action to cooperate with the listing, the purpose is to attract more interested investors, and these new products are all computer-targeted platforms. ”

To put it more appropriately, Yaskawa continued, citing a second-generation Fangyuan computer equipped with a CD drive as an example: "This CD drive, in addition to reading the CD-ROM that we have defined as serving computer data access, can also play music CDs, but it is limited to this, and the function is very simple, and there is no way to compare with a professional CD player. Mr. Tang deliberately emphasized that the reason for this is to achieve an additional goal through this product, which is to introduce music into personal computers. ”

In this way, Philips and Sony, who were guaranteed, put their hearts in their stomachs.

Tang Huan asked Deng Lijun to endorse this kind of two-in-one, computer-specific CD drive that can read CD-ROM and play music CDs.

"I've already figured out that every 2-in-1 CD drive will give away a "Touch of Love" album, and I'm going to make your first digital CD music album a sign of digital music coming to your personal computer. Tang Huan looked forward heroically.

In Tang Huan's view, the realization of multimedia applications of personal computers must be combined with the development of hardware in this era, divided into several stages, and realized step by step, and digital music is undoubtedly the vanguard.

Putting this link in a priority position can also cooperate with the plan to support Deng Lijun and push it onto the world stage, which is simply the best of both worlds.

In this way, Deng Lijun and Tang Huan met in Tokyo, Japan, to attend the new product launch conference together.

This kind of 2-in-1 CD drive has too many firsts and best that can be used as gimmicks.

For example, the storage capacity of up to six or seven hundred megabytes of CD-ROM platters is comparable to the current top enterprise application-level hard disks.

Compatibility with music CDs introduced digital music to the personal computer for the first time.

The first commercially released CD "Faint Love" not only shows the technical advantages of digital music, but also shows the distinctive oriental culture.

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Such a product launch conference will be held in the United States, and Deng Lijun also needs to attend.

The epoch-making new product has greatly helped Epson attract more investors' interest.

When its shares were listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the issue price skyrocketed from 2,400 yen to 4,000 yen in just one morning.

I have to say that Epson's dot matrix printer dominated 80% of the Japanese market last year, which is really eye-catching.

Although the market share has declined this year, it is still a normal market adjustment, which does not mean that Epson has regressed.

What's more, although Epson's competitors are following the trend very quickly, Epson's dot matrix printer, which has a kanji font library, has not yet encountered a challenger with sufficient qualifications.

Coupled with the unlimited prospects of the 2-in-1 CD drive, the Japanese who are not short of money are doubly favored by Epson.

The picture of Tang Huan and his subordinates opening champagne in celebration was quickly transmitted back to Xiangjiang, which made those who originally exchanged Hongkong Land and Jardine shares for Epson technology shares feel like pie in the sky, and they are immediately ecstatic.

You must know that the fatigue of the real estate industry in Hong Kong has been fully revealed, and it has begun to fall from the clouds to the ground in a flickering manner.

It is indeed a good deal to be able to trade real estate stocks with bleak prospects for technology stocks with unlimited prospects.

In this regard, Qinhe directly launched the most creative but most effective new advertisement, "There are still two technology stocks ready to go, the opportunity cannot be lost, and the friends who are still hesitating and waiting and seeing, should hurry up." ”

These words are simply a talisman for Jardine Matheson and Hongkong Land, and larger retail investors in the stock market, including even some institutions, began to take the initiative to contact Qinhe.

Since he swaggered into Hongkong Land's board of directors, any asset cashing out action has basically been stillborn, and he has come for this goal.

New Bijian began to accept his fate, and now his biggest goal is to untie the chain ship structure between Jardine Matheson and Hongkong Land as soon as possible, so as not to change hands as Hongkong Land is dragged down by the real estate depression, and even Jardine Matheson will not escape Tang Huan's clutches.

Originally, HSBC planned to rely on its identity as a creditor to secretly take 20% of Hongkong Land's shares in Jardine Matheson, but it was discovered by the team brought by Zhou Mi

"I've said a long time ago that if you move the chain structure, you're going to collapse faster. "The thief has been caught and the stolen goods are carefully taunted, and he unceremoniously ridicules Newbijian.

"You are pressed so hard that it cannot be explained by the existence of a grudge against each other. The bloodshot man asked himself.

"There is no need to discuss this matter now, anyway, the outside world has determined that Jardine Matheson and Hongkong Land provoked Mr. Tang, and then it was acquired. ”

Zhou Mi laughed meaningfully, "Now that the shares in my hand are almost the same as yours, it seems that Mr. Tang's privatization goal of delisting this company is about to be achieved." ”

"What a great job!" was his eyes straightened. (To be continued......)