The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 865

"There is such a thing!" Rosa was taken aback, and immediately handed the remote control to Booker. Booker clicked on the TV playback section that he hadn't clicked on yesterday, and found that what appeared directly was a calendar. Click on it Yesterday’s time on the calendar, you can see the full 21 episodes of growing pains from 62 episodes to 42 episodes. With the command of the TV remote control, you can choose among these episodes according to your own wishes.

"Wait, I remember that you seemed to have seen episode 65 yesterday, why isn't it here?" Booker said puzzled.

"You idiot, it was this morning, not yesterday morning!" Rosa sarcastically sarcastically made Booker blush, and then prepared to transfer to the result of this morning, but Rosa snatched the remote control Kidao: "Since I can watch it back, why don't I start watching the first episode the day before yesterday and make up for all the episodes I missed?"

So Rosa did what she said, and directly switched the TV back to the day before yesterday, and she really discovered the growing troubles of the first episode.

"That's not right, and growing pains is 30 minutes, counting the commercial time, so almost 42 episodes are played a day. But why only 20 episodes were played the day before yesterday?" Seeing that the number of episodes was not right, Rosa was curious asked.

"I think probably... this TV station has only been on the air since the day before yesterday!" Booker said with narrowed eyes.

"No matter, I think this TV station is really great. With this TV station, I no longer have to worry about missing TV shows in the future. I declare that this is the best TV station in the world! Netflix is ​​also the best TV station in the world. The best disc rental company!" Rosa cheered.

"Speaking of Netflix, my dear, we've finished watching Terminator 2, should we choose another movie to rent and watch?" Booker thought of the disc, so he asked.

Since two years ago, Netflix has begun to abandon physical rental stores, and instead invested in a complete online disc rental business, directly placing orders online to rent discs, thereby saving a lot of expenses in physical stores, allowing The profitability of the company has increased a lot.

"No hurry, there is no need to pay any late fees anyway, I will keep the CD for now, and when I finish watching this growing pains, I will see which TV series will be next... Oh, no, it seems that I remember This TV station has made a preview, and the next TV series is Piao Miao Journey, which seems to start broadcasting at 6 pm the day after tomorrow. My dear, have you heard of this TV series? Is this TV series good?"

"What, the TV series of Gone with the Wind will be aired after Growing Pains!" Booker opened his mouth, then hugged his daughter-in-law and said, "Honey, believe me, this is the whole of 2005... this, This will be the greatest TV show of the entire 21st century."

This situation and scene appeared in many families at the same time.At this time, Netflix has 600 million members in the entire United States, and 50 of them have received digital TV boxes from Netflix headquarters.

Well, it's not that Netflix has carefully selected users, but that Jiangnan Group's production capacity is really not enough.The cost of this TV box is actually not a loss, otherwise it cannot be given away for free.

The main thing is that a decoding chip is relatively valuable, and other components are not worth mentioning. In addition, all components are self-produced and sold by Jiangnan Group, and then entrusted to other companies in the alliance to assemble, so the final cost is about At around RMB 100, it would be about RMB 14 if replaced by the US, so the cost is really not a loss, and the Jiangnan Group itself can afford it.

The trouble is that the output of the chip is not high. Although this decoding chip is only an intermediate chip, Jiangnan Group's own chip manufacturing center can directly produce it, but after all, it has just been designed and finalized for production. The current half-month output is only 100 million pieces .

However, Boss Huang has already issued a death order. In the next three months, 10 million such chips will be produced, and [-] million will be produced within a year, so that his own TV box can directly occupy the number of the entire United States. TV market.

And all the boxes are free, free!
Although this will definitely consume a lot of money, Huang He doesn't care, although there are already other brands of digital TV boxes on the market.

For example, Apple launched a digital TV box as early as 97, but the public price of that thing was as high as 200 US dollars, which was worth the price of a game console.

It's fine if it's a bit more expensive, after all, it's a novelty, and users don't know how much it's worth.

But the problem is that such a thing worth 200 dollars, there is not much content to watch in it. At most, there are less than a few dozen TV series, and it is still the kind of unknown TV series that few people watch, and hundreds of movies. .

Forget it, if there is less content, there will be less content, and maybe there will be more in the future, so you can look forward to it.But the problem is that if you use this thing to watch TV, you can be stuck 1 times in 10 minute, and only play less than 20 seconds of content at the same time. Do you think the audience will go crazy?

Then the TV box failed magnificently. It was not until several years later, with the rapid development of the Internet, that these TV boxes were re-distributed in the United States, and the super rich such as Warner and Disney entered the game.

But this is all after 2012. At this time, there is no company involved in the TV box market, in other words, there is no competition.

And the TV box, by virtue of its own advantages, can completely overwhelm the traditional TV station... No matter how bad it is, the TV box itself does not conflict with the TV station anyway.

Watch TV when you want to watch TV, and use a TV box when you can’t find the TV series you want to watch on TV. This is a perfect solution.

And the only thing that can stop the spread of TV boxes is probably the price of the TV box. After all, most people are not willing to spend dozens or even hundreds of dollars to buy a TV box that has never been used and understood. .

But what if the TV box can be delivered for free?It can be obtained without any cost, as long as there is broadband at home?

I believe that as long as people in the United States have the Internet, they will want to fix one for themselves. In less than a few months, the Jiangnan Group will be able to monopolize the digital TV market in the entire United States, and the cost is only a few billion US dollars. This is definitely a profitable business.

At the same time, this is also a good thing for Netflix. It gives priority to delivery to users who have been more than three years old, which can be regarded as a good maintenance of old users.

However, Boss Huang was a little upset. Regarding this incident, Hastings, the chairman of Netflix, had a dispute with Boss Huang.

Let's turn the time back a week. At this time, the first batch of 1 million digital TV boxes had just arrived at the port and was about to be sent to the warehouse. Boss Huang came to Netflix and met Hastings. .

Hastings and Netflix are quite special in the entire Jiangnan Group system.

Because although Boss Huang directly controlled Netflix, he seldom directly interfered in any decision-making of recovery, which was decided by Hastings himself. Therefore, apart from meeting Hastings during the acquisition, Boss Huang, In the rest of the time, I never even made a phone call with Hastings. Only the financial department under the company maintains daily contact with Netflix's financial data review every quarter.

Therefore, Netflix's system in the entire Jiangnan Group is also quite free. If it weren't for the temporary acquisition of a TV station this time to act as a trustee and take the initiative to contact Hastings, there would be no contact this time at all.

This meeting between Boss Huang and Hastings was the first meeting between the two since the completion of the acquisition.

Hastings himself is very satisfied with this kind of getting along with each other. After all, no one wants an overlord to dictate, and Jiangnan Group is also very generous. The Jiangnan Group has decisively given all the financial support.

However, Hastings himself increased his investment according to the shareholding ratio, thus maintaining his 40% stake in the company.

It is precisely because of the good relationship that has been maintained before that Huang He, who is the actual controlling shareholder, arrived at the company's headquarters. Hastings still gave the highest level stage, and the entire Netflix executives were collectively in the company. Waiting for Boss Huang's arrival at the door.

It's just that the friendly atmosphere between the two ends here. When Huang He really discusses with Hastings in the chairman's office about the joint development of Los Gatos TV and Netflix, he is ready to let Netflix directly give 50 When thousands of users gave away TV boxes, Hastings immediately put forward his own significance.

"I firmly oppose this approach!" Hastings' words were very disrespectful to Boss Huang, and Boss Huang's words got stuck in his throat.

"You can say whatever you want!" Boss Huang touched his nose, and then said, "Do you think 50 is too little, or do you think Netflix should not give away these boxes?".

"No, I think the 50 box should not be given priority to old users, especially those who have used it for more than three years. This is very inappropriate!" Hastings said.

"Really?" Boss Huang was a little surprised, he never thought that Hastings actually objected to him for this reason "Then I would like to know, if old users are not given priority, who should be given priority? "

"These boxes should not be distributed to any old users, but these boxes should be used to recruit new ones, and tell them that as long as they join Netflix and become our continuous monthly subscription users, they can get a TV box for free!" Hastings said very excitedly.

(End of this chapter)