Chapter 179 Please face my existence(1/2)
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Faced with the fact that the U.S. government has hit a slap in the face of the decline in disc costs and will readjust global sales prices.
The tariffs failed, and the US government was so angry that it raised the scope of tariffs to all foreign imported cultural products. They decided to launch a crackdown on Uni-President Company from all aspects.
Their local trade representatives also used this clause as a big favor to put pressure on Europe.
The Eurasian directors who had already received the news cheered Cui Yue and were amazed at Xiao Qiang's foresight. Because, at this moment, Universal Pictures Company has adjusted its shares and officially settled in Long Island, New York.
From then on, on the surface, American movies will have the Big Seven Hollywood and the super giants of Universal Pictures.
However, as a sharp knife inserted into the heart of the United States, Universal Film has always made American filmmakers restless. Universal Film's poaching action for Hollywood has never stopped since its establishment, making Americans tired of dealing with it.
One after another, the films of Universal Europe combines high productions from outstanding filmmakers around the world. The film production techniques continue to mature, gradually compressing the Hollywood market.
The global film industry has been reshuffled and continues to deepen in this struggle.
On the other hand, there are more and more cinema chains under the name of Universal Pictures.
The cinema built in the name of Universal Pictures has blossomed and scattered in all parts of the United States. By the end of 1995, cinemas belonging to the Eurasian Film Union accounted for 29% of the total number of cinemas in the United States!
Hollywood urgently mobilized the US government and raised the requirement to build new cinemas, which curbed the coalition's momentum in capturing the United States.
But after this series of actions, Hollywood's monopoly position has not only suffered setbacks on a global scale, but also its own film market has been knocked open by the alliance.
The struggle between the two sides continued until the 2000th year of AD.
With the continuous growth of Universal Pictures, Hollywood is also somewhat difficult to resist in its own country. A large number of celebrities have changed their families and invested in Universal Pictures.
Through the selection of American treasures, a batch of outstanding American seedlings were also won by Universal Pictures.
Finally, in the 2000th AD, Hollywood, which was somewhat difficult to support, filed a monopoly lawsuit against the US government.
But before the US court opened, Universal Pictures announced that they would split themselves into three companies: Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures, and Universal Pictures!
This move left everyone stunned.
No matter what Hollywood is, she never expected that Xiao Qiang would do this.
During the split, after a series of dazzling equity transfers, Universal became the largest shareholder of the three film companies, controlling more than 60% of the shares. However, there is no provision in the monopoly clause. A boss cannot allow multiple companies. As long as these companies are competing, it is OK.
Moreover, Universal Company has not interfered in the company's operations at all. They only attend board meetings and participate in dividends.
The normal operation of the company is carried out by outstanding entrepreneurs hired by the world.
This is like the Rockefeller Group. Although his oil company is divided into many companies such as Mobil, Rockefeller is still the company's big boss.
For example, Bell Company was split into six companies, but Bell Sisters still dominate the US local telecom market.
Universal Films is split, but they have also reached a personnel flow agreement: the three film companies operate independently and compete with each other: the directors, actors, and screenwriters of the three companies move freely; the scripts of the three companies share: the theater chains of the three companies share, and the Global Film Alliance meeting is held at the beginning of each year to discuss the arrangements for theater chains in the new year.
It seems that Universal Europe has left a way out for Hollywood.
However, the three major film giants, collectively known as the Global Alliance, suppressed Hollywood space in the United States. Even in the United States, Hollywood was in extreme pain in the face of the theater bosses who constantly defected.
By 2010, 70% of the world's excellent films were from the Global League!
Of course, this is all a story.
In September 1993, Xiao Qiang received a call from China and asked him to return to China quickly.
Xiao Qiang didn't know what urgent happened. He asked Austin. The other party couldn't tell me why, just told him that the company's business was normal and was developing. The research progress was very fast. Many new products had been finalized and were just put on the market.
He was a little strange. The call was called by Lin Yi, but he was stupid. It was really strange.
Fortunately, the establishment of Universal Pictures is all undertaken by the Council, and he, as an outsider, does not need to make any mistakes here.
Besides, people were afraid that he would participate too much, so they would do some conspiracy and make up for them in private. Therefore, when Xiao Qiang proposed to return to China, all the members of the board of directors warmly welcomed them. As long as Xiao Qiang was able to give them to the leader when they encountered difficulties.
As soon as the news that Xiao Qiang was about to return to China came out, it caused a sensation across the United States.
Hollywood is thanking this Chinese bastard for finally returning to China, but the American media are lamenting loudly that they can expect that future news will be greatly lost due to Xiao Qiang's departure.
Among them, especially the New York Times' special stopping reporter Porter.
After so long, he has become accustomed to becoming a special reporter in Universal Corporation. Now that Xiao Qiang has returned to China, he is asking him to change his special style back to the past. Not to mention whether the readers agree or not, he doesn’t know what to write!
After a long period of pain, Porter resolutely made a decision and defected to Universal Pictures to serve as their Minister of Public Relations.
Anyway, this is also the industry of Universal Corporation. Moreover, the most news in the entertainment industry, the battle between Universal Pictures and Hollywood is also a topic that attracts readers and can be written for a long time.
He used his good relationship with many newspapers to win the favor of the American people and made the greatest contribution.
Before leaving, Xiao Qiang came to say goodbye to him and there were endless people in the area.
The Hollywood giants came, and harried to him for a long time without laughing, saying a lot of unnutritional words.
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Correspondingly, this software has many programs, which has reached a level that is difficult for European and American companies to reach: a total of 100 million taels of 100 million taels!
This huge project is a super system that hundreds of thousands of software engineers from Universal Corporation have taken ten years to build!
Six major network service providers in the United States have also come, and they are facing Xiao Qiang. They are very grateful for the strong support of Universal.
Various small and medium-sized websites made of Chinese server architecture are spread all over the United States. It is these inconspicuous small websites and the support of local area networks that have made the Global Network (American Global Network) an undisputed leader.
They didn't know that Xiao Qiang was the owner of this network, so they just politely expressed their gratitude to him, gave him some gifts, and then said goodbye.
Beyond these giants, the number of people who came to say goodbye to Xiao Qiang and the complexity of professions made Xiao Qiang feel dizzy.
There are American politicians, business people, computer industry practitioners, game companies, and souvenirs for "Friends of America" sent by sports and fitness clubs. There are also some Hollywood stars who come secretly, hoping to win his recognition and join Universal Pictures, and thus become a big hit.
This posture is like he never comes back after leaving the United States, so that there are reports of "missing Xiao Qiang" in the newspaper, which makes him laugh and cry.
Later, Xiao Qiang had no one to see anyone and kept his luggage closed all day long.
Just the guests gave various gifts, they installed a room. He had to rent a cargo plane and send the gifts back to the country. He put them in the Universal Exhibition Hall for people to visit.
Before leaving the United States, Xiao Qiang held his last press conference in the United States at the Kennedy International Airport in New York.
The press conference was not so much a tough statement to the reporters, but rather a tough statement issued by the DVD standard makers.
Xiao Qiang waved the statistics and said loudly: "As of yesterday, as of September 21, 1993, our cvd machines sold a total of 14 million units! This includes production by our Universal Company and globally authorized production.
There are tens of millions of families and tens of thousands of people using our cvd machines all over the world!
Therefore, I can tell those manufacturers who are trying to formulate DVD standards on their own: Please face my existence! You cannot put aside Universal, and tens of millions of users who are using Universal CVD to harm their interests and formulate a CD standard that is incompatible with CVD!
This is different from the difference between a DVD player and a video recorder. Because these two things are stored in the prompts that are completely different.
But cvd and DVD are different. They are both based on resin disc laser reading technology. They should be common! So, if you formulate a DVD standard that is incompatible with cvd, then I can tell you responsibly that you are disregarding the interests of consumers and infringing on their legitimate rights and interests is a despicable act!
If, I mean, if, you really did this. Then, you can abandon our users, but our Universal Company will definitely not abandon our customers. We will independently launch a CD-ROM that is compatible with CVD.
Our scientists are under intense development. In the future we can expect, we will show our products to the public. I will reveal here that our DVD player will have multiple display modes such as 800 times 600, 1024 times 800, and at the same time, we have adopted some unique new technologies to make the images clearer and the picture smoother. And this DVD player will have more new sites that movie companies like, and will support them to create more popular discs for movie fans.
So, I extend my friendship hand to the electrical manufacturers all over the world who are preparing to formulate DVD standards.
I don't want to fight.
But I'm not afraid of confrontation!"
After Xiao Qiang published his long speech, he immediately turned around and left. While the media were still excited about his farewell speech and speculating how much sales would increase tomorrow, he entered the airport and boarded the plane and left.
Other people's words can be regarded as farts, but no one dares to regard them as a wind in Xiao Qiang's statement.
Xiao Qiang used a public declaration to make himself stand in the same camp as Tens of Tens of Tens of Tens of thousands of users. If electrical companies such as Sony, Panasonic, Philips dare to put aside CVD, it would be equivalent to offending a huge user group.
Xiao Qiang caught them off guard and then took the opportunity to return home. This made the DVD standard setting party fight back and couldn't find anyone to deal with it. He could only fire in the air.
No. It cannot be said that it is firing at the air. It is firing at all users in Europe, America and Asia, who are using cvd!
They don't have the courage.
When Xiao Qiang landed at the Capital Airport, he immediately heard a response from the United States: Welcome to join the standard formulation of DVD discs, and hope that all powerful companies will unite to provide users with an excellent DVD player to meet the needs of as many users as possible.
Xiao Qiang smiled happily.
In terms of underlying laser reading technology, because the development site was late, if the DVD was launched alone, it would likely touch the other party's patents and be trapped in a protracted patent lawsuit. However, he used this grassroots route to create a magic weapon for the huge user cluster, forcing the standard setting parties of DVD to join.
They can fight sales wars, just like Sony and Panasonic compete for the video recorder standards back then.
However, they were all under the World Group. Panasonic and Sony lost a game on LCD projectors and gave up this market: Hollywood just lost in front of the Movie League. They had no confidence that they could still compete when Xiao Qiang already had a huge user base.
I don't want to be an enemy. Of course I hope the other party is an ally.
The market is changing. Overall, the principle that big fish eat small fish and small fish eat shrimps is followed. However, there is one principle that is eternal, that is, there are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests.
For profit, Panasonic can work with Sony, and Hollywood can also work with European film companies.
Similarly, there is no doubt about cooperating with Xiao Qiang.
Besides, they are eager to cooperate with Xiao Qiang. With Xiao Qiang's excellent sales ability and the support of the existing large user group, the sales prospects of DVD will surely exceed their expectations.
It was Lin Yi who came to the airport to welcome Xiao Qiang.
Lin Yi has graduated from university, and their marriage has also been mentioned on the agenda.
However, while Xiao Qiang was chatting and laughing with Lin Yi on the way back to the company, he was also surprised to discover the huge changes in Beijing.
Due to various reasons, Xiao Qiang has been traveling abroad and has not returned to China. This is the first time he has returned to China in the past two years. In his sight, there are tall buildings everywhere.
To be continued...