Chapter 1206: Members' Struggle
The most important thing for standards to be implemented is to be recognized. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe more companies that implement this standard, the faster the standard will be implemented.
The previous standard for DVDs, that's it. Relying on more companies to support the DVD forum, their standards can be implemented as quickly as possible.
Now the two sides are facing off again on high-definition DVDs, and the Blu-ray DVD alliance established by those companies in the DVD alliance has also attracted some of the original island companies. However, some of the previous DVD alliance companies also rebelled and joined the HDDVD forum.
If the enterprises of the island countries are because of local alliances, then those companies that oppose the DVD alliance are for profit. Fengyu Electronics and Philips decided to license their original DVD patents so that they could produce more popular DVD players, CDs and computer drives.
Originally, they were on the side of the DVD Alliance, and they also bought the patent licensing of companies in island countries. For the same price, of course the choice is better.
What's more, the DVD Forum also has a huge advantage, that is, a technology developed by Mingji Company can be compatible with playing the standard disc of the DVD Alliance, while the player of the DVD Alliance is not compatible with the standard disc of the DVD Forum.
In this way, the DVD forum, in terms of players and computer optical drives, has a huge advantage inherently. Everyone buys the CD, who knows which format it is, but some players can play all of them, and some can only put part of them, which do you say consumers buy?
And this time, the HDDVD forum claims that the high-definition DVD standard they are researching can be produced using the original DVD production line, which greatly saves the cost of these small companies. But not every company can be as capricious as Shuni and Songxia, and invest tens of millions of dollars to change the production line.
How many discs do you have to sell to make back the money on this production line!
As a result, the two camps of high-definition DVD exchanged many members, and both sides showed their strengths and began to win over other electronic companies.
At this time, the representative of Tomson Company, on behalf of the HDDVD Forum, went to negotiate with the film companies in the United States, asking them to support the HDDVD standard, that is, to produce high-definition DVDs that meet their standards, and not to cooperate with the Blu-ray DVD Alliance.
Those companies in the island countries also reacted immediately, and the most important thing at present is the copyright of these film companies. If they don't support their format, then they will lose more than half of the source, which will greatly affect their profits.
At the beginning, the DVD forum was like this, so that they couldn't hold their heads up, and this time, they won't make the same mistake again.
Tomson Company, after all, is the No. 1 home appliance company in North America in terms of sales, and it cooperates with all film companies, so it has a great advantage.
Of course, Soni also has its own controlled film company, and Dongzhi also has shares in the film company, so in the end, Soni Film Company and Disney Company joined the Blu-ray DVD Alliance, and of course their Toei and Toho, while others such as Shimen Pictures, Twentieth Century Focus, MGM, and Bangna Brothers joined the HDDVD Forum, and Xiangjiang's film company, Baodao's film company, South Korean film company, and some European film companies have joined the HDDVD camp.
Of course, the mainland also follows the HDDVD standard, after all, the mainland DVD companies have been granted patents by the DVD forum, and they dare not throw off Fengyu Electronics and turn their heads to cooperate with island companies.
And some computer manufacturers have also divided into two camps, which support Blu-ray DVD and HDDVD respectively, but what Feng Yu didn't expect was that this time, Intel actually announced that it supported the Blu-ray DVD standard.
Just like the last time Microsoft announced its support for the DVD forum, this time Intel also confused companies such as Philips and Tomson.
We promote the DVD standard, and we have a hairy relationship with your Intel? You don't produce players, you don't make CDs, and you don't have movie or MV copyrights.
Microsoft still has an explanation, after all, their system, do they want to support optical drive drivers?
And the interface standard of the optical drive has long been fixed, is it not possible to make a different interface on your motherboard? Therefore, Feng Yu thinks that Intel is a spoiler, so there is no need to pay attention to it.
Eighty percent of the world's DVD players are made in Huaxia, of which Huaxia's own brand occupies 60 percent of the world's market share, the remaining 20 percent are members of other DVD forums, and 20 percent are members of the DVD Alliance, which are mainly island brands.
Fifty percent of the world's DVDs are also made in China, and the remaining 30 percent are about made in the United States, mainly distributed by those film companies, and the remaining 20 percent are produced in island countries and Europe.
So whether it is a player or a CD, Huaxia is the leading boss, and the most important of them are, of course, Fengyu Electronics and Aihua Electronics.
International electronics companies, in fact, have already acquiesced in their hearts that this business is the strongest in China. It's just that the island country company is still not convinced.
This time, they promoted HDDVD, and they also put on a confident look, because Fengyu Electronics and Aihua Electronics began to study HDDVD technology as early as two years ago, and their Blu-ray DVD technology has just begun, and it is already a cut behind in time.
It won't be long before HDDVD players will hit the market, and new formats of high-definition discs will be introduced to the market. And it will take at least a year for them.
By the time they enter, although the market will not be saturated, HDDVD has already taken the lead.
In the next period of time, some electronics companies that had never done DVD before also began to choose their camp. Some of them chose the HDDVD camp, and some chose the Blu-ray DVD camp.
But in general, the number of HDDVD camps is larger, and more importantly, it controls more player manufacturers and film sources.
However, what the island companies rely on is that they lead the world in high-definition television. When you buy a high-definition DVD player, you always have to have a high-definition TV, right?
If you look at it with an ordinary TV, you can't distinguish between HD and SD at all, so what's the use?
But they would never have imagined that the technology of LCD TV, the development will be faster and faster, far beyond plasma TV technology, high-definition TV, LCD can also do.
It is precisely because of the plasma technology barriers of the island countries that HDDVD has a more competitive advantage. They can also form strategic alliances on HDTV.
While everyone was still fighting for members, Fengyu Electronics released the first HDDVD player!
The company was stunned, what was the situation, how did they successfully develop an HDDVD player so quickly? Do they have HDDVD disc sources?
Immediately afterwards, some film companies in Xiangjiang released HDDVD discs, announcing the official arrival of the high-definition DVD era!
…… (To be continued.) )