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They all complied with Feng Yu's request, and Feng Yu will naturally give them some benefits, otherwise no one will cooperate with Feng Yu anymore. For example, if they can withdraw at the same time, then each family will only need to compensate 40 million US dollars, and then they will go crazy. These companies are definitely not easy to mess with. It is very likely that both parties will suffer losses, and in the end they will be taken advantage of by Dongzhi and Sony.
"Starting from the beginning of next month, the patent fee for each VCD will be halved, and will be reduced by five dollars every year until the patent fee is zero." Feng Yu announced loudly.
The patent fee is halved to twenty-five dollars per unit, and the patent fee can still be collected for five years. In fact, it will not take five years, but about three years, DVD technology will have matured, and VCD will become a thing of the past.
This condition seems to be very good, but in fact, upon closer inspection, it is completely useless. But Feng Yu has already given the condition that the patent fee will be halved and reduced year by year. What else can others say? Will the requirements continue to be lowered? Or simply give it to them for free? Only a fool would agree to such a condition.
If they do bring it up, they are not sincere.
So they could only acquiesce to this condition. However, the companies in the island country were still not satisfied and put forward another condition, that is, the price of VCD cannot be lowered any further this year. If it is lowered again, they will not make any profits or even lose money.
Now for a VCD, after reducing the patent licensing fee, their profit is only about 20 US dollars, which is already very low.
Feng Yu also agreed to this. He didn't want the price of VCD to be too low. That would also make him a lot less money. And these people are still needed to promote the DVD standard for the time being. Besides, I just promised them not to lower the price this year, but they can still lower it next year.
And now the main promotion is super VCD, the profit is several times that of ordinary VCD. The sales volume is not bad either, and the second generation of Super VCD will be launched next year. Ordinary VCD has nothing to do.
Even if you really want to crack down on these companies, you can lower the price of Super VCD, which will still make them vomit blood!
But now is not the time. Sony and the others are still holding on.
When the DVD Forum held a meeting, attracted more than thirty of the world's largest consumer electronics companies to join, and set its headquarters in Hefei, China, Sony panicked.
What kind of invitation letter is this to the DVD forum? Why didn't they receive it? In the world's consumer electronics industry, they are also very powerful, okay? Which company issued this invitation letter
The headquarters is in Hefei, China. So the initiator is Fengyu Electronics? Such an unranked company can become a initiator with just two patented technologies? Are all those big companies stupid? You all went there and joined this company
They looked at the list of forum member companies again and found that there were software giants like Microsoft and Tata Consultancy among them. What does this have to do with you? What are you doing by getting in
Even though they hate to admit it. But I have to say that after those companies joined forces and established this DVD forum. These companies are very embarrassed.
The DVD burning standards themselves are divided into three categories and five specifications. Among them, dvd+r/rw is the burning specification proposed by Fengyu Electronics and the specification introduced by Pioneer Company, while the specification introduced by Dongzhi Company is, among which rw is It is a theoretical specification, but there has been no actual research success, and ram will eventually be replaced by rom.
In fact, aiwa company is still researching music optical drives, and Fengyu Electronics is still researching video optical drives, but these have not been successful. It cannot be implemented at the moment.
But it is the three standards of DVD+AM that constitute the current competition for recording standards. Originally, DVD+R was at a disadvantage, with the fewest companies following the standard, and the most companies following the Higashi Corporation RAM standard.
But now, everything has changed. DVD+R is about to become mainstream, so the other two standards and derived specifications will be difficult to implement.
It just so happened that they themselves had united to fight against Feng Yu Electronics and the others.
It was still at an advantage, but suddenly the advantage was reversed.
For this purpose, only if they both unite and jointly promote a DVD recording standard, otherwise they will fail completely.
But now the question comes again, which standard should be implemented
The two parties are just cooperating, but the cooperation must be equal. We are both big companies and have good technologies. There is no reason to implement the other party's standards and give up our own standards, right
So Dongzhi, Sony, Pioneer, HP and other companies gathered together to discuss a solution, with the same purpose of getting the other party to compromise.
They have exactly the same idea. If they separate now, they will inevitably fail, but if they cooperate, they can continue to fight. Whoever fails to make concessions first will fail.
Dongzhi cooperates with Sony, and Sony has a large optical disc production line, as well as Sony-Columbia Pictures and Time-Warner. Dongzhi is a shareholder of Time-Warner.
Pioneer also has a large-scale optical disc production line and is supported by Hewlett-Packard, which is the world's top company in the application of laser technology. Moreover, HP also has a computer company, which is also the world's top computer company and attaches great importance to the future development of DVD optical drives.
The two sides launched in-depth negotiations, but both wanted speed. Because they know that the sooner they unite and determine standards, the sooner they can launch technical cooperation and fight against those companies in the DVD Forum.
In the end, it was Hewlett-Packard that made the first concession, requiring the DVD drive technology to be shared with their company for free, and then turned to support Dongzhi Company, so Pioneer was put on the back burner.
In order not to be kicked out, they had to agree to temporarily implement the standard and give up the promotion of the standard, but they would not give up research.
So they set a direction and decided to follow the example of the DVD Forum and establish an alliance called (DVD Alliance). At the same time, several companies mobilized their connections and united with some other major consumer electronics companies to join in and work together. Technical research to combat dvd forums.
But most of the companies that have advantages in DVD technology have joined the DVD forum. What they can win over are only some second-tier companies, but the scale has finally increased, which is much better than just a few companies joining.
The DVD Alliance had just been established and immediately announced that it would continue to research and promote standards, and claimed that the standards were the most useful, practical and correct standards. The implication is that the DVD+R standard promoted by the DVD forum is not as good as theirs.
The DVD forum immediately launched a counterattack and compared the capacities of the two sides. The capacity of DVD+R is 2.58g and the capacity of DVD+R is only 2.58g. It is clear at a glance which one is better!
But in fact, these data are all theoretical and can be completed in the laboratory, but cannot be mass-produced at all. In other words, the technology of both parties is immature. But once a standard is accepted by more people, whichever company will be a big step ahead in technology research and development, and future profits will be huge.
At this point, the DVD industry has entered an era of coexistence of two heroes.
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