Miramax film company was founded in 1979, much earlier than Galaxy film company, which owns a lot of film copyright. At this time, Nicholas IMDB company urgently needs to buy a large number of film network copyright, just to use it!

    This time, Nicholas IMDB company spent more than 200 million dollars to buy tens of thousands of film and television works.

    Real networks company has also improved the RealPlayer video player, classifying the "online photo library" into categories. After users click in, it''s clear at a glance!

    Because of the IMDB website, it is not difficult to promote RealPlayer video player.

    IMDB website is the world''s largest internet photo gallery, ranking in the top 10 for website traffic.

    IMDB didn''t have the function of "online viewing" before, but now it does.

    In fact, the so-called "online viewing" has changed the concept. Today''s browsers can''t provide movie viewing on the web. After clicking "watch online", only a black screen will appear on the webpage, which will display a typesetting "please download RealPlayer video player to watch the film, if RealPlayer video player cannot play, please refresh the page once"!

    A "RealPlayer download" option appears at the bottom of the black screen. Click to download RealPlayer video player!

    RealPlayer video player will be released at 12:00 noon on July 20, and the homepage of IMDB website also gives links for promotion and download.

    At present, there are all kinds of download software on the market, the most famous of which is thunderbolt P2P.

    Thunderbolt P2P is a software developed by the P2P Department of Williams laboratory. The software is less than 1MB, simple and practical. The most important thing is that the software, like its name, has a tendency of being too fast to cover your ears. The download speed is very fast!

    It is precisely because of this that thunderbolt P2P can quickly occupy the download software market and become one of the current mainstream download software!

    At the same time, thunderbolt P2P also launched its own website. Website is different from software, rich in content, all kinds of software can be found on the thunderbolt P2P website, and even download the rankings for your reference.

    When downloading RealPlayer video player, if you don''t have thunderbolt P2P on your computer, you will download thunderbolt P2P first and then RealPlayer by default.

    In previous lives, Henry downloaded the game or something. At the beginning, he downloaded the company''s download software by default, and then downloaded the real game through this download software! This is the red fruit binding, no matter whether the user is willing or not, it has to be like this anyway!

    The launch of RealPlayer means the opening of the Internet online viewing era, which immediately set off a huge wave on the Internet!

    On July 20, the slogan on the home page of IMDB website was: "epoch-making software - RealPlayer online video player!"

    When you click in, you will see the detailed introduction of RealPlayer video player.

    "RealPlayer uses the most advanced technology at present. It doesn''t need to wait to download. It can download and watch at the same time. Even at a low network speed, users can watch videos smoothly! At present, RealPlayer''s online movie library has tens of thousands of the hottest movies and TV works. You can watch them with a click. Users are welcome to download and use them! "

    Some people read the slogan on the home page and download RealPlayer; Some people see that there is an "online viewing" option under the pictures of some movies, which can not be downloaded curiously.

    No matter what way, after downloading and using RealPlayer, the user satisfaction is very high.

    "Cool. In the past, I could only see pictures and introductions of one movie. If I wanted to see it, I had to rent a video. It was too much trouble! Watch it online, it''s like a crane

    "Oh, it''s so cool. I can watch a lot of movies at home! Ho ho, I choose tens of thousands of films. If they are put together, it''s dazzling! However, RealPlayer has already considered for users. It is very user-friendly. It separates movies from TV and classifies them into sci-fi, horror, action and so on. What kind of movies or TV plays do you want to watch? Just look for them in this category! "

    “……”

    The layman looks at the scene, the expert looks at the door.

    The industry is shocked by RealPlayer!

    "I''m a programmer, online viewing involves many technologies, such as video compression technology, which is very difficult. At present, no company has been able to realize the function of online viewing. Real networks is awesome

    "It can be predicted that the launch of RealPlayer video player will rewrite the Internet video field, and even have a huge impact on traditional industries!"

    "The key technology of RealPlayer is the video format. Only the video format with high compression efficiency can be downloaded and watched online. We know that Microsoft launched avi video format this year. When avi video format was just released on the Internet, many people were surprised and called it the best video format. In fact, avi video format at that time, it was! Within a few months, however, AVI was overtaken. To be exact, it is totally different from the video format supported by RealPlayer player, which can be said to be a big difference

    "The video format supported by RealPlayer is called RMVB video format, which is developed by real networks, a little-known company. Previously, we never knew the existence of this company until the release of RealPlayer video player. However, after some investigation, it is found that real networks is not the small company we imagined, because behind it stands a person whom everyone must look up to... This person is Henry Williams! "

    "From this, we can know that success is no accident!"

    ……

    ……

    A week later, the number of RealPlayer downloads exceeded 1 million, and the number of movies played by "online movie library" reached 15 million times.

    The film companies were shocked when the data just came out.

    15 million times. If it''s used to rent or buy videos, it''s tens of millions of dollars!

    You know, this is still the performance of RealPlayer in one week!

    Film companies are crazy, and even regret selling the online copyright to Nicholas IMDB, so that when Marcy Freemont wants to buy the online copyright of films again, he has many difficulties.

    However, it won''t be long before pirated videos will come out.

    Real networks is the main culprit that accelerates the emergence of piracy. A week later, real networks released a software tool, RMVB format converter, which can convert all kinds of current video formats into RMVB video format.

    RealPlayer can support "online viewing", while "local viewing" is no exception.

    There are already some websites for downloading pirated videos on the Internet. However, due to the limitation of Internet speed, these pirated websites are difficult to develop. The RMVB format converter released by real networks company is tailor-made for them, so that they can convert all the video formats stored in the server into RMVB, and then provide them for Internet users to download!

    On the one hand, it increases the number of downloads of RealPlayer and enhances its influence; On the other hand, in a sense, it also enriches the film resources!

    What''s the matter with real networks when Internet users download pirated movies from pirated websites?

    After the owner of the pirated website got the RMVB format converter, he was as excited as a treasure. He stayed up all night and immediately organized his hands to work on the format conversion!

    Henry then went to real networks to learn about the situation. I didn''t think about it, but I met someone here.

    "How do you do, Mr. Williams? Nice to meet you here. My name is Jiang wanmeng, from China! " When Jiang wanmeng saw Henry, she was a little shocked and quickly stepped forward to say hello.

    As soon as Henry heard him introduce himself, he knew who he was.

    Jiang wanmeng is the founder of Wanyan VCD company. The world''s first VCD was made by Wanyan VCD company. In 1992, Jiang wanmeng, who used to work in Anhui TV station, went to the United States to participate in the international radio and television technology exhibition. In this exhibition, Jiang wanmeng was firmly attracted by a humble technology, MPEG decompression technology, exhibited by c-cube Scomber microsystems.

    Jiang wanmeng is acutely aware that MPEG technology, which can store images and sounds in a relatively small CD-ROM, means that it can create an audio-visual product with high quality and low price for ordinary people to use at home.

    The chairman of c-cube Scomber Microsystems is sun Yansheng, a Chinese American.

    The two cooperated to set up Wanyan VCD company. Even the company name is a combination of their two names.

    What Henry didn''t understand was that he should have cooperated with c-cube Scomber microsystems. How did he come to real networks?

    However, Henry knows that c-cube Scomber Microsystems is a pitfall company, which has ruined Wanyan VCD. The real core technology of VCD is decoding chip, but it is controlled by c-cube Scomber microsystems.

    Obviously, Jiang wanmeng has a small arm and a small leg. How can he compete with c-uube? Jiang wanmeng can''t get the patent of decoding chip!

    Jiang wanmeng originally thought that c-cube company could be tied up with shares. However, c-cube company saw that China''s VCD market was huge, selling decoding chips was more than the money from Wanyan VCD company, so it turned to sell decoding chips to all buyers.

    Wanyan VCD started with glory, but ended in failure.

    In fact, another major reason for the failure of Wanyan VCD is that Jiang wanmeng did not apply for a patent for the complete machine of Wanyan VCD, so that everyone can get a piece of it. Perhaps, according to Jiang wanmeng at that time, it was useless to apply for a patent for the whole machine. Because he knows that China is a country where piracy is rampant. Patents are used for knitting. Apply for patent to want money, can save save!

    As a result, 1000 prototypes came out and sold out as soon as they came into the market. Then, the buyer took the VCD back and took it apart for imitation.

    VCD player basically has no technical content. To say that it has technical content, it mainly depends on the decoding chip. With the decoding chip, anyone can make VCD.

    Henry looked at Jiang wanmeng and asked, "well, Hello, what are you doing here?"

    "I''ve come to visit and consult real networks about RMVB format!" Jiang wanmeng responded.

    Henry turned his eyes and thought, does Jiang wanmeng want to use RMVB as the video format of VCD?

    "Have you consulted?" Henry asked, smiling at him.

    Jiang wanmeng nodded: "we have consulted!"

    "What do you think?"

    "A very good video format, better than all the current video formats!" Jiang wanmeng praised.

    Henry laughed and did not speak. Instead, he looked at him and asked him to continue.

    Jiang wanmeng was silent for a moment, and said: "Mr. Williams, to tell you the truth, I''m here to investigate your company, actually I want to cooperate with your company! Before, my idea was to design a good and cheap audition product based on MPEG technology, but after seeing RMVB, I think RMVB is better than MPEG! "

    Henry asked knowingly, "have you been to other companies before?"

    "Yes Jiang wanmeng nodded and said, "I saw the MPEG compression technology of c-cube company at the international radio and television technology exhibition, and this idea came into being! This time I came to the United States, I wanted to cooperate with c-cube company, but I met RMVB at this time, so I thought about it and asked about the situation first. As a result, RMVB makes me excited

    Henry''s heart was moving, but his face was still. He looked at Jiang wanmeng and said, "well, that''s good. In that case, we are willing to cooperate! Mr. Jiang wanmeng, please come to the office and let''s talk about the cooperation in detail! "

    "Good!" Jiang wanmeng answered.

    With a smile, Henry took him to the chairman''s office. As he walked, Henry thought to himself that c-cube had lost a cash cow!

    ……

    "Sit down, please!"

    Henry then asked his secretary to give Jiang wanmeng a glass of water, and then talked about cooperation.

    Jiang wanmeng said: "this product, I call it VCD. At present, CDs are generally audio discs, but what we need to do is video discs, and V stands for video. The most important core component of VCD is decoding chip. My original way of cooperation with c-cube company was to entrust them to design decoding chips, holding 30% of the shares! What do you think of our cooperation in this way? "

    Henry laughed and joked: "are you not afraid that I will sell decoding chips to other companies in the future? 30% of the shares may not be as much as I make by selling decoding chips.... "

    Jiang wanmeng''s face sank when he heard this. In fact, what he was most worried about was this.