Chapter 595: Many disadvantages

Jiang Wan came to the headquarters of Zhiduoxing Group happily, and also brought their newly developed successful prototype. According to the agreement between the two companies, Zhiduoxing Group invested in Wanyan's research and development team, so it can obtain related patent use rights for free.
Jiang Wanmeng is ready to bring this product to market, just in the second quarter. Not only in the domestic market, but also in the global market.
Wan Yan is also a well-known brand in the global market. He pioneered VCD and led the development of DVD. Even MP3 players were the first to be marketed.
And Wanyan also relies on some technology licenses and can obtain hundreds of millions of dollars in patent licensing fees every year, which is to lie and make money.
Wan Yan's main products are now three, one is a DVD player, one is MP3, and the other is a computer's optical drive.
And their optical drive market is currently the industry's first, many PC manufacturers in Europe and America have chosen their products, and even some PC manufacturers in island countries have also chosen their products.
The DVD market may become smaller and smaller, but the optical drive market will not, and will not disappear for at least two decades. They can also do technology research and development and authorization to obtain more profits.
Jiang Wanmeng is of course anxious as the company's products decrease. They are not just technology R&D companies, but also factories. If there is no product, then the factory can only lay off staff, or even sell the factory.
The success of this portable video player has made Jiang Wanmeng confident. At least five years, the company can still have a flagship electronic product that can make a lot of money.
He also hopes that this product will satisfy Zhang Yang. After all, all products that Zhang Yang is satisfied with will eventually make money. Zhang Yang really admired the control of the market.
Of course, I also hope to cooperate with Zhang Yang, such as launching a website that can download videos in their format.
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"Old Jiang, is this a new product you have developed? Did it pass the test?" Zhang Yang fiddled with the gadget in his hand.
The screen is not large, only about two inches, the thickness is not small, and it is quite heavy, because the metal shell is used to ensure that it is resistant to falling.
If you don’t see the external sound, there is a headphone jack, so you can only use headphones. There are many buttons, there are seven, and no expansion card interface is seen.
"Of course it passed the test. We are ready to commission the equipment for mass production. This is not to bring it over to Mr. Zhang. The relevant technical information has also been sent to the headquarters of Zhiduoxing Group. You can also produce it."
"Well, this is a technical parameter, please take a look."
Zhang Yang took a look. The storage space is 512M. It takes 2 hours to watch videos and 4 to 5 hours to listen to music.
The keys include two sound keys, forward key and back key, confirm key, exit key, and the last power-on/off key.
In terms of functionality, it seems to be missing.
"Old Jiang, aren't you using a backlit LCD screen?"
"That, no. The main reason is that the power consumption is too high, and the battery has better technology, but the cost is too high. By then the cost will exceed 1,000 yuan. How can I sell it."
Now that the prices of cheap MP3s have dropped to more than 500 yuan, the cost is naturally lower. The cost of this product is more than 1,000 yuan. If you consider the multiple costs of advertising, research and development, publicity, sales, transportation, etc., is it not necessary to sell at least 1,500 to protect the capital?
Such a thing is so expensive to sell, will anyone be willing to buy it?
If the backlight function is added, wouldn't it be necessary to add two more buttons to adjust the brightness of the screen? The appearance has to be bigger, and the feel will be worse.
"Well, there are documents in it? Let me try."
Zhang Yang plugged in the headphones and clicked on a video, which was once a classic Spring Festival Evening on CCTV. The characters are not particularly clear, the subtitles are relatively small, and they are not clear, but the sound is not bad.
I changed a MP3 song and listened to it. The sound quality is very good, the lyrics font is also large, and it can scroll at the same time.
"The sound quality is good, but the screen clarity is not too good, is it a hardware problem, or a software problem?" Zhang Yang asked.
"Everything. The hardware is a 65K color screen. Now there are better 260,000 color screens, but the cost is high and the energy consumption is high."
"The resolution of this video file is not high, it is not a high-definition version, but you can already see people clearly, right?"
Zhang Yang said nothing, cost is important, but quality is also important. Since we are the first to introduce this portable video player, we cannot give everyone a feeling of poor quality, otherwise who would be willing to buy it?
Good quality, high price, you can also take the high-end route, just like the big brother just came out, do not those companies that launch Big Brother make money?
There are still a lot of rich people around the world. It doesn't matter if the cost of this thing increases again, as the technology improves, the cost will soon drop.
"You can play video files in several formats?"
"Uh, there is only one. It is a video playback format introduced by Microsoft early, called AVI. This format of video file storage space is small, which is more suitable for this portable player."
AVI, what a familiar playback format. Many people in the past life are familiar with this format because they downloaded many small movies from many island countries.
Adding AVI after the name of many people will give people a different feeling. It seems that the content inside is very amazing.
"Can't there be other formats?"
"No, for the time being, we are still researching and developing. But as far as I know, there is a company called Archos in France~EbookFREE.me~ is also developing this product, and it is said that it has already begun to apply for a patent. "
"We must rush to launch this product in front of them, otherwise we will not get the first title, and there is one less selling point."
Zhang Yang remembered this. Didn't Archos bring this product to life in the previous life, and even once maintained a market share of 75%, which was extremely popular.
But in this life, Archos is not so beautiful.
"Yes, you can launch it if you want to launch it. If the factory has insufficient production capacity, you can find a foundry." Zhang Yang nodded.
"Mr. Zhang, there is another problem. As I said just now, there are too few video files in this format. We need to build a website to provide video downloads in this format."
"Of course, we also made a video converter, which is solidified in the hardware, and users can also convert it by themselves, but it is always troublesome, right. This takes a long time."
"Okay, I think about it. I can contact some film and television companies and buy some authorized video sales. You go to the market first, Zhiduoxing Group plans to go to the market in the third quarter, everyone staggers the time of listing."