Silicon Valley

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Henry set the price of each Aido VCD player at 3999 yuan, the cost of the whole machine is less than 1000 yuan, and the profit is very high. The price of the decoding chip sold by Williams Electronics to Wanyan vcd is very expensive, the asking price is 1600 RMB! In fact, the manufacturing cost of a decoding chip is less than 400 RMB. In the future, when the production scale increases and the price of materials decreases, the manufacturing cost will be reduced a lot!

Wanyan vcd company can't develop a decoding chip by themselves, so they have no choice but to buy it bravely. If other manufacturing costs and various expenses are added, the whole cost of Wanyan vcd DVD player will probably be two or three. thousand RMB. According to information obtained by Henry, the price of Wanyan vcd player is 4200 RMB!

At the moment, Wanyan vcd company, as in the previous life, purchased the copyrights of more than ten audio-visual product companies for the source of the film. A genuine vcd disc costs 40-50 RMB, while a pirated CD made by Henry is only 10 RMB.

There is no doubt that Wanyan vcd company spent money to buy copyright, it must be a waste of water!

This is a sure-fire battle where bad money drives good money!

with no doubt!

The small workshops that Harrison bought were disbanded after the first batch of VCD pirated discs were produced, so as not to ruin their reputation in the future. Leave it to the majority of cottage manufacturers...

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At the beginning of September, Aiduo vcd's commercials appeared on major TV stations.

"Love more vcd, good work!!!"

Jackie Chan is very well-known in mainland China and has a lot of fans. After watching the advertisement, the acceptance level is relatively high!

In addition, in order to let the Chinese public understand what a vcd player is, the length of this commercial is 30 seconds. For such a long time, it must be enough to let everyone know what the vcd player is used for. Of course, with such a long commercial, the advertising fee must cost a lot of money.

However, the wool comes from the sheep and will be earned back sooner or later!

In fact, once Aido vcd was released, many companies around the world were shocked.

Philips, Sony and other companies were very surprised, thinking that the vcd technology can still be used in this way... They made the vcd technology standard, but only used it on the computer, but Aido vcd used it on the TV.

Chinese domestic companies are even more interested in vcd players!

At this time, the price of LD discs was several hundred RMB, while the genuine vcd discs cost only a few tens of dollars, and the pirated vcd discs were even cheaper... Undoubtedly, this vcd player has a very large market prospect!

"Buy it back and tear it down, let's copy it!!!"

At this time, the bosses of countless companies said in their hearts.

As a result, the 5,000 vcd DVD players sold by Aiduo vcd were sold out in a short time.

In addition, there are some shrewd businessmen who see the business opportunities of vcd discs.

I thought to myself, since vcd players are so popular, shouldn't vcd discs follow suit?

"Hehe, the big boss eats meat, and we small businessmen drink some soup."

It is very easy to make pirated vcd discs. Ask a technician to help you transform the original production line that produces video tapes or LD discs in minutes, and you can immediately use it to produce vcd pirated discs.

In Shenzhen, dozens of small workshop factories were transformed overnight and became producers of pirated vcd discs!

This is like a sudden spring breeze, thousands of trees and thousands of pears are in full bloom.

Before long, the market was flooded with a large number of pirated vcd discs.

Aiduo vcd company has established a production plant in Shenzhen, with a monthly production capacity of 20,000 machines, which is in short supply. First, the film source is sufficient, and second, the advertising is strong. This is completely different from the Wanyan vcd in the previous life. The Wanyan vcd company in the previous life only sold the first batch of vcd video disc players at the beginning, and most of them were bought by other companies and dismantled, analyzed the structure of the machine, and prepared to copy it. After this, the Wanyan vcd player will not sell. The main reason is the above two points, film source and advertising. What is ironic is that although Wan Yan also advertised, most people do not know the name of Wan Yan vcd! In the end, he made a wedding dress for others...

At present, the development of Aido vcd company is on the right track, and Henry no longer pays special attention to it. After all, vcd is only a temporary profiteering, after a few years, when dvd comes out, vcd will be a yellow flower. At that time, Henry planned to sell the Aido vcd company, regardless of whether it would go bankrupt in the end!

Henry is not going to be a DVD player anymore, it's not interesting. He is a man of pursuit, and of course he is the one who sets DVD standards!

Compared with vcd, the profit and influence of the game industry is much greater.

Atari's 64-bit game machine, the Jaguar, has now reached the final stage of product testing. It is expected to be mass-produced at the beginning of November 1993, and it will be released to the market by the end of December. It will take almost two months to produce hundreds of products. 10,000 game consoles, if sales are hot, build more production lines immediately.

At this time, the war without gunpowder has begun.

Atari was bought by Henry and must be working on a new console, everyone knows it. And Sony is going all out to win over third-party game makers, what he wants to do is self-evident.

This is already well known by Sima Zhao!

And Apple, the famous American personal computer maker, actually got involved, which made it even more chaotic.

The heroes are fighting for the deer, and the mountains and rains are about to come!

Nintendo has already faintly felt that the dark cloud overwhelms the city and wants to urge...

Here, in addition to Nintendo and Sega, the third game manufacturer that has attracted the most is Sony. It can be said that Sony has been planning for a long time. In fact, Sony has secretly controlled many game companies. In addition, Sony's strength and influence in Japan have made many game companies trust it.

And people in the industry know that many of the core parts of the Nintendo game console are provided by Sony. Technically, Sony can beat Nintendo! They believe that Sony's PlayStation will be a very good game console!

And Atari may have a bad reputation, and many companies dare not trust it, so that it has become the company with the least support from third-party game manufacturers in the battle between the four giants of Nintendo, Sega, Sony, and Atari!

Although Henry has proposed many preferential policies for third-party game manufacturers, this is still the case, which is a bit embarrassing!

The so-called freezing three feet is not a day's cold.

Atari has been failing, and it does make people less confident in it.

Just at this time, the electronic pet that Henry asked Atari to develop has been completed.

"Immediately release the Atari electronic pet and let them know what it means to be popular all over the world!!!" Henry was a little unhappy with the third-party game makers. He didn't even use his own name, so he invested in his own third-party game company. Bottom line!

"Yes!!!" Atari's new CEO Rich Howard responded excitedly.

Rich Howard was originally a product manager at Atari, and was chosen by Henry as the company's CEO.

(To be continued ~^~.)