Chapter 151 [The Birth of the Video Disc Player]

3 month 13 number.

in the afternoon.

“Crack! Great shot.”

Li Yishu stood up and said with a smile, “The crew of “Central Station” has officially finished filming!”

Perhaps because he had been on vacation for more than a month, Xiao Yejin was in very good shape and completed the 10-day shooting plan in just one week.

Hearing that the filming was finished, Gong Li breathed a sigh of relief: “It’s finally finished.”

Seeing her relieved look, Li Yishu walked over curiously and asked, “What’s wrong, Sister Gong Li?”

“Nothing, it’s just too hot here, and it’s too stuffy to sleep at night.”

Gong Li glanced at the scorching sun in the sky and said with emotion: “It’s only mid-March and it’s already over 30 degrees. It’s hard to imagine how hot it is here in July and August.”

Li Yishu nodded: “This is the climate here. It’s quite nice to come here in winter.”

“Winter is nice, but there are too many mosquitoes here. There are mosquitoes in March.”

At this point, Gong Li looked at him strangely: “You forced me to kneel last night, and the mosquito bite on my butt hasn’t gone away yet.”

“Cough cough~~”

Li Yishu coughed twice and said, “Let’s talk about it when we get back. Let’s talk about it when we get back.”

He shouted to the stagehand not far away, “Xiao Jin, have someone pack up everything. We’ll have a bonfire wrap-up party tonight. Go see if you can ask a chef to come over and make some Yunnan-style roast suckling pig.”

“Okay, Director Li.” The stagehand Xiao Jin nodded, then turned around to make arrangements.

Gong Li asked: “What is Yunnan-style roast suckling pig?”

“It’s a local specialty, roast suckling pig. I saw it when I passed by a restaurant yesterday. It sounds good.”

After Li Yishu finished speaking, she saw Ye Jin eating a popsicle not far away. She waved her hand and called him over. She said, “Not bad, little Ye Jin. You have acted very well these days. Now that filming is over, you must study hard when you return to school.”

Many young actors have low academic performance due to long-term filming.

Li Yishu likes Ye Jin very much, and naturally doesn’t want him to waste his time like he did later. Although he can’t follow the route of an idol artist in terms of appearance, he can definitely become a talented actor.

“Yeah, I know the director brother.”

Xiao Yejin nodded repeatedly: “I have been taking extra classes during this period.”

“That’s good.” Li Yishu touched Xiao Yejin’s head, and then saw his mother coming over. He chatted with her for a few words, and then asked them to go back to the hotel to rest and wait for the bonfire party in the evening.

After everyone left, Gong Li asked curiously, “You seem to like Ye Jin very much?”

“It’s OK. I think this kid is very sensible.”

Li Yishu smiled and said, “When he was sick before, in the hospital, he actually said sorry to me because he delayed the filming of the crew. What a good child.”

“is it?”

Gong Li was a little surprised and said, “I didn’t realize Ye Jin was so well behaved.”

Ye Jin is 12 years old now. Although he is a little short and looks only about ten years old, he has reached the age where he can be naughty and playful. Except when he is filming on the crew, he is usually a crazy kid running around.

I didn’t expect you to say such sensible words.

“Haha, being good and having fun don’t conflict with each other.”

Li Yishu smiled cheerfully, then checked the time on his watch and found that it was still around three o’clock. Seeing the crew members around him busy packing up props and cameras, he said, “Let’s go back to the hotel first, take a good shower and rest. After attending the bonfire wrap-up party in the evening, I have to go back to the United States tomorrow.”

“Still going to America?” Gong Li raised her eyebrows: “Haven’t you finished filming?”

“The filming is done, but I still have to go back and participate in the post-production.”

Li Yishu said: “This is my first movie shot in Hollywood, so I have to treat it with caution. Moreover, the movie will be released in late May. Before I returned to China, I heard from the person in charge that the preliminary external publicity has begun. By the end of April or early May, there will be large-scale publicity. I only have more than a month for post-production.”

“Aren’t you rushing this a bit?”

Gong Li frowned. It took only three months from the filming to the release of the movie.

Li Yishu shook her head: “There’s nothing we can do. The situation at Columbia Pictures is more complicated.”

“complex?”

What’s so complicated about making a movie?

“Well, let’s go back to the hotel first and talk while we walk.”

“Central Station” was successfully completed.

Qiu Fusheng was naturally the happiest one. When he learned that Li Yishu was going to hold a bonfire party, he generously covered all the expenses and even paid for people from the Xishuangbanna Song and Dance Troupe to participate.

The night was naturally lively and bustling.

Li Yishu also successfully removed the mosquito bite on Gong Li’s buttocks, but it only took several hours. The next morning, Li Yishu took a car to Kunming Airport in advance, then flew to Shenzhen, and then directly transferred to the United States.

Hefei.

In a scientific research laboratory in the High-tech Industrial Development Zone.

Huo Wenxi came here with his lawyer and assistant.

“Ms. Huo, look, this is the video disc we developed. Its English name is Video Compact Disc, or VCD for short.”

Jiang Wanmeng introduced the black machine in front of him, which was about 35 cm long and 15 cm wide.

“This is a VCD~~”

Looking at the device, which was about the same size as a videotape projector, Huo Wenxi asked, “How do I use it?”

The assistant beside her helped translate. Although Huo Wenxi could speak Mandarin, she had initially pretended to be a Hong Konger who could not speak Mandarin, so she naturally had to keep pretending.

“Just like the videotape, turn on this button.”

Jiang Wanmeng started to operate and pressed the eject button. Soon, a small drawer with a circular groove inside came out from the device.

“This groove is specially used to hold CDs. I also asked someone to record a VCD.”

As he spoke, Jiang Wanmeng took out a CD that he had someone copy in advance and put it directly into the circular groove. Then he closed the hatch.

Soon, a picture appeared on the color TV. It was a movie from Hong Kong called “A Better Tomorrow”.

When Huo Wenxi saw that such a thin disc could produce a picture, his eyes lit up.

But when she noticed that the picture quality was very rough and there were even color spots on the screen, she frowned and pointed at the color spots on the TV and said, “Mr. Jiang, what’s going on?”

Jiang Wanmeng said, “It’s a CD. The quality of the CD is not good. I also asked someone to record it temporarily, so the image quality is not good. If I use professional equipment to make CDs, there will be no problem.”

“Not bad.” Hearing that it was a problem with the disc and not with other equipment, Huo Wenxi nodded with satisfaction: “How much does this equipment cost to produce?”

Jiang Wanmeng said: “It is still relatively expensive. After we assemble it, the cost is about 3000 yuan. However, if it is mass-produced, it should be much cheaper and the materials can be cheaper.”

“More than three thousand~”

Huo Wenxi frowned. This price was not expensive in Hong Kong, but it was undoubtedly sky-high in the mainland.

You should know that a domestic color TV only costs a few thousand yuan, but buying a device like this that can only play VCDs costs three thousand yuan.

Even if we reduce the cost, it should be at least 2000, right?
This does not include the interests of stores, dealers, and factories…

No wonder the boss only asked her to register the intellectual property rights but did not think of contacting the factory to produce the equipment.

“The price is a bit high, but I think it is totally worth it. The birth of this technology can be used not only in movies, but also in records, and the production cost of CDs is lower…”

Jiang Wanmeng is a technical researcher. In his opinion, after large-scale production, it will be no problem to reduce the manufacturing cost to 2000 yuan. By then, after going through layers of sales, it will be around 3000 yuan when it reaches the customer.

It is a bit expensive, but you can enjoy the convenience far beyond that of videotapes. Videotapes are prone to getting stuck, but CDs are not so easy to get stuck.

Secondly, the production cost of CDs is low, which can further reduce the cost of purchasing videotapes~~
“Yeah, the CDs can be cheap, but the machines are too expensive.”

Huo Wenxi pondered for a moment and then said, “Engineer Jiang, have you sorted out all the techniques?”

“It’s all sorted out.”

Jiang Wanmeng nodded to an assistant, who immediately went to fetch a thick stack of VCD technology files: “Ms. Huo, these are all the VCD technologies we have sorted out.”

Huo Wenxi took a quick look at it, but since he couldn’t understand it, he handed it over to the lawyer beside him and asked him to prepare to register the intellectual property rights.

Jiang Wanmeng asked: “Ms. Huo, can the VCD factory be built in Hefei?”

“Build a factory?”

Huo Wenxi was surprised and said, “I remember I didn’t say I wanted to build a factory, right?”

“Not building a factory?”

Jiang Wanmeng was stunned: “Ms. Huo, if you don’t build a factory, then why do you want me to develop this technology? I have communicated with our leaders in Hefei before, and they also said that they would provide extremely generous policy treatment…”

Blah blah blah, Jiang Wanmeng directly explained the corresponding factory construction policies given by Hefei one by one.

Even Huo Wenxi was tempted by what they said. Not only would they provide the corresponding factory, but they would also provide an interest-free loan policy. Secondly, they would also give a big discount on taxes. The first two years would be free, the next three years would be halved, and the normal tax would be collected after five years…

This was done so that Huo Wenxi, a daughter of a Hong Kong businessman, could invest and build a factory in Hefei.

“what do you think?”

Li Yishu, who was far away in the United States, held the phone, asking while thinking about Huo Wenxi’s words.

“I think we can definitely cooperate with Hefei to build a factory, and this will not affect your plan to license the relevant VCD technology to others.”

Huo Wenxi said: “I have asked someone to find out. The policy benefits in Hefei are very good. It is unlikely to be obtained even in Guangzhou. But the only pity is that there are not many related supporting industries in Hefei. Many VCD manufacturing parts have to come from Guangzhou.”

(End of this chapter)