Chen Xiao glanced at Wang Qin and said, "Does sister Qin like listening to music?"
Wang Qin is Zhou Linghua's secretary, but she is not an ordinary secretary, so she does things more casually.
Several times, Chen Xiao watched Wang Qin take out a white Sony earphone from her bag and put it in her ear to listen to music.
Wang Qin nodded and said, "I prefer it."
Chen Xiao asked again: "What device does Sister Qin use to listen to music?"
Wang Qin took out a thin and light CD player from her bag, and said, "This! It's a gift from Mr. Zhou."
"Cough cough cough!" Zhou Linghua coughed twice.
The CD player is from Sony, and it looks very expensive at first glance. It should not be difficult to buy for one or two thousand.
What Wang Qin was thinking, Chen Ling didn't know, but those girls in later generations would never put such a bulky CD in their bag.
Thinking of this, Chen Xiao suddenly burst out laughing. Although technology is advancing, human behavior has not changed.
In the 1970s and 1980s, fashionable young people played music while walking with portable radios, thinking that they were D.
In the 1990s and 2000s, fashionable young people carried walkmans, CD players or MP3s, and headphones, and listened to music while walking. Look embarrassed.
In 2010 and 2020s, fashionable young people on subways, libraries, and pedestrian streets hold mobile phones and listen to music with wireless earphones. I am very. They also think that people who used CD players to listen to music in the 1990s were stupid, and they carried such bulky things in their bags.
Chen Xiao said: "Actually, I got the inspiration from the thin and light VCD. VCD is to decode the video files in MPEG format separately and play them on the device. So can our music be decoded separately, stored and run on smaller devices? "
Chen Xiao said: "South Korea and Japan already have this technology and have produced corresponding equipment, but because the equipment is expensive, the response from the market is not very good."
Wang Qin immediately knew what Chen Xiao was talking about, and said in surprise: "You mean MP3! I've seen it in Korean dramas, but Jiangzhou doesn't sell them. First-tier cities like Yanjing and Shanghai should have them!"
Wang Qin is only in her twenties. What this young girl longs for is a beautiful urban life. She yearns for the gorgeous scenes in Korean dramas, the dresses of the heroines, and the equipment used.
In Korean dramas, after the heroine and the hero have a misunderstanding, the heroine takes out a small MP3 player from her bag and puts the earphones on her ear with a chuckle. The way she casually leaves is so charming!
Wang Qin wants it too!
But unfortunately, she couldn't buy an MP3, so she had to buy a CD in a department store.
Wang Qin quickly described the super performance of MP3 to Zhou Linghua in very excited words.
"The volume is very small, only as big as two lipsticks, it can hold more than ten songs, and you can change songs on the computer"
Zhou Linghua was persuaded immediately.
He also feels that according to people's living standards, and the fact that young people today are different from those in the 1960s and 1970s, what they pursue is not only food and clothing, but also a quality life. Making MP3s will definitely make money!
Zhou Linghua's current business is mainly CNC machine tool equipment. Although he is profitable, there are still many problems.
One is that the number of sales is limited. After all, factories buy CNC machine tools, and the service life of a CNC machine tool can be several years or even more than ten years.
The second is that the payment is slow and the funds are at risk. After all, there are only a small number of people who buy equipment with full payment. Some private companies take a long time to settle the money for a piece of equipment. Zhou Linghua spends most of his time either chasing money or on the way to chasing money.
And now the one who owes the money is the uncle, and the one who asks for the money is the grandson, and Zhou Linghua doesn't want to be a grandson, so he is thinking about how to transform.
What Chen Xiao said just now reminded Zhou Linghua.
In recent years, why are VCDs so popular that various manufacturers flock to them?
?Because VCD is a fast-moving consumer product, it is directly aimed at ordinary consumers, and you get paid for the shipment. If you don¡¯t kill yourself, the financial pressure is very small, and the payment cycle is also very short.
Similarly, MP3 is also a fast-moving consumer product, and the pressure to pay back should be very small.
If the patent application for MP3 is done well
Zhou Linghua took a sip of coffee, his heart beating faster.
"Chen Xiao, what do you mean?" Zhou Linghua asked.
Chen Xiao said: "The main reason why MP3 is not selling well is the production and price. At present, there is no professional production line and production technology in China, so all MP3 products are imported at present.??The price is extremely expensive. If we can reduce the cost, improve the product, and lower the price, then the sales volume will be considerable. "
Chen Xiao: "I know that both boys and girls in our class have their favorite singers, and almost everyone has bought tapes of their favorite singers. If there are more convenient products than walkmans and CD players, I believe they will Will love it."
Zhou Linghua said: "You mean, you made the MP3 design?"
Chen Xiao nodded and said: "There are design drawings, the main board can be improved with the VCD production line, but it needs to be greatly modified. In addition, the equipment for producing MP3 decoding chips is a bit more difficult. I can design it, but I have to figure out how to implement it."
The most difficult thing is to decode the chip.
Although the circuit diagram of the decoding chip is simple, it is a decoding chip after all, and the production line can be improved according to the VCD decoding chip.
As long as this difficulty is overcome, then the production of MP3 will be a matter of course.
Zhou Linghua said decisively: "I called all the technicians in the factory together. Let's see when it's convenient for you. Let's discuss it carefully. If we can make a sample first, we can talk about it."
Chen Xiao nodded and said, "Let me sort out the relevant information first."
?Because Xia Guo has not yet entered the WTO and has not implemented an internationally unified patent standard, the patent application should be applied quickly.
In Chen Xiao's memory, the international patents of MP3 are extremely complicated.
The first category is audio encoding/decoding patents, including: wma, whose patent owner is Microsoft; MP3, whose owner is Thomson. In addition, patent management agencies such as Sisvel and MPEGLA are also involved.
The second category is the invention patent of the MP3 player: that is, the patent of the MP3 player itself. We don¡¯t know who invented the MP3 the first time. Some say it¡¯s German, some say it¡¯s South Korea¡¯s Samsung. Who made it? Come out, each has its own rhetoric.
The third category is other patents, such as the appearance of MP3, each of which has its own rhetoric.
It is because patents are too messy, so everyone did not pay patent fees and went their own way.
Chen Xiao's application for related invention patents is not to compete with Samsung, Sony and other companies internationally, but to gain the right to speak in the domestic market.