To date, approximately 250,000 "Boundless VCDs" have been sold nationwide.
Of course, many VCDs were also bought by domestic and foreign manufacturers.
They bought the VCDs, disassembled them for research, and planned to pirate them.
Wujiang Group doesn't care about this; do whatever you want, but you all have to buy Wujiang's MPEG-1 decoding chip and CD drives.
The majority of the profits were eaten up by Wujiang Group, leaving only a little bit of soup at most.
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Compared to "Boundless VCD", Boundless Video Hall seems to be more popular.
Almost every Wujiang Video Hall was packed to capacity, with demand exceeding supply, and some even offered all-night bookings.
Even though watching a movie only costs 50 cents, the sheer number of people makes it irresistible.
The profits are also quite considerable.
Before piracy emerged, Wujiang Video Hall made a fortune.
Wujiang Group has ample manpower, establishing hundreds of video arcades in first-tier cities, eighty in second-tier cities, fifty in third-tier cities, thirty in fourth-tier cities, and twenty in fifth-tier cities...
As for rural towns and villages, based on the actual situation, there are fewer than ten video arcades.
To date, Wujiang Group owns 12,000 Wujiang video halls. Each video hall uses at least four VCD players and as many as ten VCD players. The company has solved the problem of more than 80,000 VCD players through self-production and self-sales alone.
Currently, Wujiang Group is expanding the number of Wujiang video halls, especially in rural areas, where the market potential is huge.
It's important to understand that investing in a movie theater is very costly, while investing in a video arcade is extremely cost-effective. Setting up a video arcade in a rural area is very practical.
The countryside at this time is different from the countryside in the previous life. Many people stay at home to farm, and not many people go out to work.
As a result, there are now a large rural population, and video arcades are doing incredibly well.
Two weeks later.
"Boundless VCD" has become a household name in China. Besides the role played by advertising, the Boundless Video Hall has also made a significant contribution.
Many people go to video arcades, then tell their friends and family, and then invite them to go to the video arcades to watch movies together.
Word spread quickly, and "Boundless VCD" became a hit.
In its past life, when Wan Yan Company was promoting VCDs, it didn't have the resources. Just wanting the whole country to know what VCDs were would require a huge investment in promotion. However, because it hadn't registered a patent, it ended up benefiting others.
Wujiang Group has a professional patent management department that applies for patents as soon as new technologies emerge in the group.
Therefore, Wujiang can't do anything about those small factories in China that engage in piracy, but if you grow big and strong, Wujiang will have to take action.
As for those foreign companies, such as Philips and Sony, if they dare to develop and produce VCDs without paying patent fees, Wujiang will show them why the flowers are so red!
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“That’s impressive. In just half a month, a total of 1.6 million ‘Boundless VCD’ units were sold. It seems there are quite a few wealthy people in China.” Zhao Ye looked at the document and a smile appeared on his face.
China has a population of over one billion, and Chinese people have a habit of saving money. They didn't spend it before because they were reluctant to do so, but the emergence of "Boundless VCD" is simply too tempting for them.
Just think, who doesn't love watching movies and TV series?
Hong Kong movies and TV dramas are especially good; the actresses are incredibly sexy and alluring, exuding charm in every gesture, making mainland viewers exclaim, "I can't take it anymore!" and beg for more...
Wujiang Video Hall is considered relatively legitimate.
In Shenzhen and Guangzhou, unregulated video arcades are everywhere. They start playing pornographic films late at night, and business is booming every night.
“Boss, according to the investigation report, many people are seeing how popular Wujiang Video Hall is, so they are buying ‘Wujiang VCDs’ and planning to open their own video halls. In addition, many people are buying CD production equipment from Wujiang Group and are secretly recording pirated VCDs.” Liu Yinyin said, holding a report.
"We should support these people in the pirated DVD industry behind the scenes; suppression won't work. We're not the only ones who can produce CDs; many foreign manufacturers can too. If they don't buy our equipment, they'll buy foreign equipment. So, it's better for us to actively promote our production equipment to them. At least with our equipment, the quality of pirated VCDs will be much better, which will actually benefit our promotion of 'Boundless VCD'!" Zhao Ye said with a smile.
When pirated DVDs become rampant, Wujiang Video Hall can gracefully exit the business and sell it off at a high price.
The genuine product can't compete with the pirated one, not to mention that others can release pornographic films. If Wujiang were to release pornographic films, his reputation would be ruined.
Video arcades are difficult to run, but transforming them into audio-visual stores is a viable option. However, Zhao Ye had no such plans.
In the 1980s and 90s, Wujiang Group did not intend to get involved in the record industry in the country.
With the advent of the internet age, the record industry became sluggish again, and offline record stores naturally closed down one after another.
Therefore, Zhao Ye had no interest in doing these things.
"Using the Wujiang Group's distribution channels, let's start selling 'Wujiang VCDs' in Southeast Asia, India, South America, Africa, and other regions, and try our best to cooperate with local film and television companies. Also, send people to subtly promote the profits from pirated VCDs; without pirated VCD discs, 'Wujiang VCDs' won't sell very well..."
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