Xing Baohua had always wanted optical disc compression technology, but the patent was held by Philips in the country of Big Windmill.

I've been wanting to talk to Philips for a while now, and this trip is also convenient because of the proximity; it's much easier to get there from West Germany.

Philips has many companies, and this time Xing Baohua visited Philips Electronics.

The small and large home appliances we see are all manufactured by this company.

It must be said that Philips' marketing in the home appliance sector is indeed quite good; despite the high prices, there are still quite a few buyers.

There are already many mature CD products on the market, and the main product now is still records.

The patents are held by two companies, one by Philips and the other by Sony.

However, Philips also developed a CM100 readable optical drive last year, commonly known as a 1x optical drive, with a read speed of only 150k per second.

This device will cost around $1,500.

When connected to a computer, it can read data from CDs.

With the addition of Philips' compressed optical disc technology, the storage capacity of the optical disc reaches 600-750MB.

It's worth noting that Xing Baohua's low-end laptops only have 10-20MB of hard drive space, while mainstream computers only have 40MB.

Therefore, optical discs, as storage media, can only be used for transitional data transmission.

CD drives are also divided into three categories, the most basic being read-only. You cannot modify the data inside.

The second type is the CD-R, which can only be read and written once. In other words, it only allows modification of the files on the CD once.

The third type is CE-RW, which can read and write in an infinite loop.

Optical disc technology falls into the third category, which is what we don't usually see; it requires a separate device for burning discs.

Later, we had CD-DVD burners on our laptops and desktops, which were combined optical drives.

Currently, only some research and development departments use optical drives capable of rewriting and reading data. They are also quite expensive. However, for data processing, optical discs are indeed a good option for storing data with current technology.

However, the drawbacks are also obvious: the CD is prone to damage, data loss, or cannot be read.

After dozens of attempts to read the disc, several lines will appear on the surface. During the read process, it either freezes or displays a read failure message when it tries to read it.

This shortcoming means that optical discs cannot be used as hard drives; they can only be used as storage media or temporary storage media.

Before flash memory and external hard drives came along, optical discs played a very important role.

Music, movies, games, and even operating systems all require CDs.

This is a huge industry chain. Didn't JD.com's founder, Dong Ge, make his fortune by burning CDs?

When Xing Baohua first established the factory, he invited people from Philips to come over.

At the time, they wanted to buy this patent and that patent, and the price wasn't high, so Xing Baohua ignored them.

It was only after selling its wireless patents to Alcatel that it had the huge funds to develop itself.

Although I haven't had much contact with Philips, I have bought their laser heads and used them to make laser keyboards to fool the Japanese.

Perhaps it was too advanced, and it almost killed itself.

Upon arriving at Philips, I identified myself as the chairman of the Rice Group.

Although it was rushed and there was no appointment, Philips executives quickly came forward.

The CEO of Philips Electronics happened to be home and personally received them.

Coffee was placed on the meeting table, and the two exchanged a few polite words at first.

Upon learning that Xing Baohua had just come from West Germany, I assumed he had bought some electronic products there.

Xing Baohua said he purchased several chassis and transmissions.

Philips' CEO is Edward Nils. Hearing Xing Baohua talk about buying chassis and transmissions, he couldn't help but think, "Are mobile phone manufacturers switching to car manufacturing? Even someone as powerful as Philips hasn't dared to touch it."

“Nals, I would like Philips to authorize me to use disc-cd compression technology,” Xing Baohua said, revealing his intentions.

“No problem, Xing. Actually, we have a lot of areas where we can cooperate. Although we’ve missed a few opportunities, now that you’re here, let’s have a good talk and see what areas we can collaborate on,” Nals said with a smile.

Philips actually wants to price its technology at a high level, but isn't that because Sony also has this technology?

They were afraid that Xing Baohua would go to Sony to seek cooperation.

While opening up the technology, we also want to acquire some of the technology related to rice.

Xing Baohua, that sly fellow, provided Philips with a selection of wireless technologies, most of which were analog.

Before the advent of digitalization, analog machines were the mainstream. As soon as digital machines came out, analog machines were phased out very quickly.

It will be replaced in two or three years.

Philips has also produced mobile phones, but their appearance and quality were indeed somewhat unsatisfactory.

Anyway, it doesn't sell very well in mainland China.

Xing Baohua was willing to give away some technologies that were about to become obsolete, as long as he could get what he wanted in return. Of course, a simple license for compression technology wouldn't do; Xing Baohua wanted to buy it directly.

The two sides went back and forth and reached several agreements.

Xing Baohua used the patent license for rice analog signals as a price to obtain the right to purchase the patent for optical disc compression technology.

Wireless analog signal licensing is almost free, but in exchange for purchasing other people's technology, you have to pay money to do so.

Three million US dollars. They didn't ask for much, only allowing the rice to produce its own CD-ROM technology, and not permitting it to be resold to third parties.

The other party was afraid that the rice would be made public.

Well, Xing Baohua could only nod in agreement. These technologies simply cannot be kept secret domestically.

There are too many capable people; they can break it in a matter of seconds.

This led to the formation of a DVD theft industry chain.

Although it couldn't be stopped, optical drives were still widely used.

With the CD technology in hand, Xing Baohua can produce CD players, and he can make a fortune just from CD players.

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