This inexplicable karaoke craze swept across Hongya and Beiliao like a tsunami in just a month, and then spread to the whole country, first along the coast and then inland.

Therefore, in any city, no matter how big or small, there will be several such open-air karaoke stalls on the streets at night.

Nightclubs and dance halls that already had karaoke services have also upgraded their services and installed VCD players.

It was at this time that people discovered the benefits of VCD players in singing.

It is very convenient to find songs. Just insert the CD into the DVD player and click on the remote control to select any song.

It saves the trouble of rewinding compared to a VCR, and the sound quality is several times better than that of a VCR.

Although the picture clarity is not much better than that of videotapes, there will definitely be no water marks, jitters, and screen rolling that often occur on videotapes.

Even in terms of price, it is not much more expensive than a VCR.

In 1992, an original Japanese VCR cost three to four thousand yuan, and even a single-player model cost more than two thousand yuan.

As a result, the sales of DVD players saw a small boom in the past month, with the cumulative sales nationwide reaching 15,000 units.

This includes the sales of 5,000 to 6,000 units planned for the May Day holiday.

In this way, the cumulative sales of VCDs in the country are nearly 25,000 units.

In fact, this sales volume is not low, after all, it has only been on the market for three months.

With sales of 25,000 units in three months, even if it’s not impressive, it’s not bad either.

The main reason is that the sales of other products of Nanwan Group are too hot. Almost every product launched is in short supply, which makes VCDs seem to be unsalable.

The biggest beneficiary of this small sales boom of VCDs is actually Bohai Audio and Video Publishing House. In the first month of May and the first half of June, their karaoke discs sold nearly 100,000 sets.

The pirated feature films they secretly produced also sold tens of thousands of copies.

Profits of millions of yuan.

Tong Siyang was so happy that his face was flushed all day long, and even the mole on his cheek was glowing.

He can now be sure that this year will be a fruitful year for Bohai Audio and Video Society, and there will definitely be a considerable bonus at the end of the year.

Bohai Audio and Video Publishing House is enjoying a good life, so naturally some people in the audio and video industry are jealous and clamoring to get a piece of the pie.

Huaguang sold the production rights of VCD discs to Bohai Audio and Video Publishing House, so of course it had to go to Bohai.

In this way, Tong Siyang became a busy man.

Although everyone in the audio-visual industry usually calls each other brothers and sisters at the dinner table and promises things casually when they get together, they cannot be careless when it comes to matters that affect their own jobs.

Tong Siyang thought about it for a day and felt that this matter was not easy to handle, so he called Wan Feng.

Wan Feng thought for a moment and said, "President Tong, the production of VCDs doesn't require much technical expertise. Anyone who knows the principles and can make CDs can also make VCDs. I can tell you very clearly that by this time next year, genuine pirated discs will be available. The genuine pirated discs I'm talking about aren't the ones made by audio-visual companies like you, but by ordinary people. By then, all kinds of discs will appear. What do you think you should do?"

Tong Siyang was silent for a moment: "You mean that even if we don't do it, the common people can still do it?"

"right!"

"So we don't have many good days left?"

"That's right! This is the general trend, and no one can change it. So, take advantage of it while there's still value to cash in. As long as other publishers pay you a certain fee, you can sell the rights to them. When pirated copies are everywhere, who will you sell to?"

Tong Siyang thought about it and agreed. After hanging up the phone, he convened an enlarged meeting of the Party Committee and explained the matter at the meeting.

After a lot of discussion, they finally reached a consensus that any publishing house that paid 150,000 yuan in production and sales transfer fees would be eligible to produce and sell VCD discs.

As soon as Tong Siyang spoke, the money flew into the account of Bohai Audio and Video Publishing House like wings, and several million yuan appeared in the publishing house's account out of thin air.

With the support of dozens of audio-visual publishing houses across the country, VCD discs appeared like snowflakes in the national audio-visual market, and the rich software began to drive up the sales of DVD players.

But even so, the sales of DVD players were the worst for Nanwan Group.

Compared with the mediocre sales of DVD players, the sales momentum of Huaguang 101 was extremely strong. Even after Huaguang installed a second semi-automatic production line and increased the production capacity of 500 mobile phones per day, it was still in short supply.

If this momentum is maintained until the end of the year, the mobile phone business alone will generate more than 10 billion in profits for the group.

Is there such a large base of people using mobile phones across the country? Wan Feng is also unclear about this question.

Regardless of whether it exists now or not, this base population will only increase year by year and will not decrease year by year. Therefore, the assembly lines must be put into operation, the styles of mobile phones must be increased, and technology must also be continuously developed.

Wan Feng called Gu Hongzhong and Yu Zhengdong to his side and told them clearly that the next generation of mobile phones will enter the digital age, and asked them to start understanding and studying digital mobile phones now.

In 1994, China launched its own GSM network, commonly known as the 2G network.

Unfortunately, there was no company in China that could manufacture digital phones. The one that benefited was Ailixin, which released the GH337 in 1995 and made a fortune in China.

Nokia, Nokia and Motorola were dazzled and rushed into the Chinese market with great momentum. After two years of fighting, these three companies finally occupied 80% of the mobile phone market share.

Even the remaining 20% ​​is owned by Siemens, Alcatel and Panasonic, and Chinese people have nothing to do with it at all.

Not only is the money earned, but the information of Chinese people is also obtained by foreigners.

This happened in the field of mobile communications in China in the previous life.

Wan Feng does not want this to happen in this life. He believes that as long as Huaguang can make a breakthrough in digital mobile phones, the country will support Huaguang without hesitation, so that Huaguang mobile phones will occupy the world's largest market.

That's a market with profits of hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars.

Gu Hongzhong always obeyed Wan Feng's words. After this conversation, their team's main focus immediately shifted to the research and development of digital signal mobile phones.

It has been two months since Yu Zhengdong arrived at Huaguang. Wan Feng privately asked Gu Hongzhong about his opinion of Zhengdong.

"Monster! Absolutely, truly a monster, Mr. Wan! I suspect there's something wrong with your eyes. Where do you find these talented people? I want to study your eyes. Maybe I can win a Nobel Prize."

Gu Hongzhong rarely praises people easily, but he could call the word "monster" and even added two "very" in front of it, which shows that Yu Zhengdong is indeed quite capable.