The door of the courtyard house has been welded dead

More people came to Li Feng's house to watch TV.

Of course, it wasn't the neighbors around. When Li Feng moved the TV upstairs, every household was still eating and no one saw it.

Those who were invited to dinner included Director Liu of the Semiconductor Research Institute and several key research personnel in the institute.

There were guests coming to my brother's house, so Li Nan and Liu Feng embarrassedly abandoned the TV and came downstairs.

"Come on, come on, go chop the duck~!"

Li Feng glanced at the two people who had nothing to do during their vacation, and handed the whole roast duck he had bought to Li Nan.

"This is?"

"My sister Li Nan and her boyfriend Liu Feng are both in the army and just came back on leave. The organization has approved their marriage. Didn't you two go to get the marriage certificate today?"

Looking at the bicycle parked in the house, which was still motionless like yesterday, Li Feng felt that if the two of them continued to rest like this, hugging the TV every day, they would become exhausted. Where did such a strong addiction to TV come from?

"Oh, there are still four days of leave. Go and claim them tomorrow morning. It's just in time for me to go back to the yard to eat. Don't worry about it~!"

Li Nan took the apron from the hook in the kitchen and put it on, looking a little depressed.

She knew what these people came for. There was no doubt that the VCR would be taken away today, and there would be no place to watch the videotapes that Xu Damao brought back.

Liu Feng was busy serving tea and water at this time. Facing the inquiring gaze of his brother-in-law, he did not dare to say anything. Li Nan, who insisted on watching TV, ate him till he was completely exhausted. No matter what he said at home, it was useless.

"Don't waste time~!"

"Come on, let's go up and see the current movie projection technology outside~!"

Seeing Li Nan start to cook, Li Feng didn't need to do it himself. He made a gesture to invite people upstairs and went upstairs with the people from the research institute.

"Is this a color TV?"

A few years ago, the Beijing Television Factory was already able to produce color televisions, but the cathode ray tubes and other components were still imported from the Soviet Union, and looked different from this TV.

"It's a Toshiba brand, 14 inches, and I borrowed it from a foreign trade company. Domestic TVs don't have image input ports at the moment, but that's not the point. The one next to it is the home video recorder I was talking about~!"

Li Feng's hand gently tapped the JVC VCR, which Xu Damao bought second-hand from the south for 1,400 yuan.

It’s not that Xu Damao doesn’t want to buy Sony. Boss Zhao also recommended Sony. However, Sony is more expensive than this brand. Even second-hand Sony is still the king of the gray market. In addition, Sony currently has a lot of film sources, and the price is two thousand yuan, which cannot be bargained down.

Compared with Sony, this brand of VCR is relatively unknown in terms of company scale. Li Feng had miscalculated, as he had not expected that VCRs would be so expensive nowadays.

"This home video recorder, even if it's second-hand, costs 1400 yuan. This new 14-inch Toshiba color TV, imported from the foreign trade unit, guess how much it costs?"

“It’s only 1200 yuan~!”

One was a huge color TV, and the other was a VCR that was only a fraction of its size. It was second-hand and its price was higher than the TV. This was something that the people in the institute had not expected.

"This little gadget is so expensive. The price difference is too big, isn't it?"

Director Liu looked at the machine with some surprise, pushed Li Feng aside, and carefully examined the appearance of the video recorder.

"No, Director Li, why is this machine so expensive?" Comrade Xiao Yuan, who came along to join in the fun, was the only female comrade. She had been busy at the Red Star Factory in recent years and was familiar with Li Feng.

Domestic black-and-white TVs in department stores, like nine-inch ones, only cost a few hundred yuan. This second-hand VCR is worth the price of several TVs.

"Why? You can take a look first, Director Liu. Don't be impatient. Take a look at what it is used for first~!"

Li Feng pushed Director Liu, who was holding the machine tightly, aside, picked up a videotape at random from the videotape rack, and stuffed it in.

The arc-shaped TV screen began to flicker, and then the content on the videotape was transmitted to the TV through the video interface, and the movie began to play.

Several grown men didn't care about anything anymore. They either sat on the stools or on the edge of Li Feng's bed, watching the Shaw Brothers movie like good kids.

"This videotape is like a movie film reel, and a home video recorder can be seen as a tool for projecting movies. In the case of Xiaoshidai, these two are miniaturized. By connecting them to a TV, ordinary people can watch movies at home."

"Shh, Director Li, you can't talk while watching a movie. Wait until the movie is over first~!"

Comrade Xiao Yuan was a little unhappy. It had been more than ten years since he met Director Li and he became Director Li. He pushed him and signaled him to shut up.

"...!"

Li Feng slapped his forehead heavily with his palm, and a few black lines floated down.

Looking at the bright light of the TV projected on the faces of several middle-aged men, as the plot developed, their expressions became nervous and excited, which made him, as a person who had experienced it, feel a little amused.

In this era, it seems that everyone is addicted to watching TV. If the programs are exciting, it’s like being addicted.

Li Nan, who was cooking downstairs, quieted down after hearing the noise upstairs, then ran upstairs and handed the apron to her brother.

"Okay, this is great, this is Hong Kong dialect, right? I don't understand it, but it won't stop me from watching it~!"

"Hey, where's Li Feng?"

They had watched halfway through, when the exciting part had just ended, Director Liu slapped his thigh, and the others realized that the instigator had disappeared, and the person watching TV next to them was Li Feng's sister.

"My brother is going downstairs to cook. It's okay. You guys watch. I'll watch too~!"

Director Liu was embarrassed. He was called here to study the machine, but he was so absorbed in the movie that he forgot his main job.

"See, this is the function of a VCR. As long as you have a videotape, you can easily watch the programs you want~!"

At the dinner table, Li Feng picked up his glass, clinked glasses with several people from the research institute, and expressed his thoughts.

"I heard that the people from the Shanghai TV factory have already gone abroad for inspection. The foreign trade unit is preparing to introduce a color TV production line. It is estimated that it will be finalized by next year at the latest~!"

"With the introduction of color television, VCRs will be in every household. As long as the research institute can copy them and lower their price, sales will be easy. Their only drawback is that they are too expensive!"

"You can see that the current domestic TV programs are still somewhat behind those in Hong Kong. This machine was brought here for your research institute. As long as you can study it thoroughly and master the relevant technology, you can enjoy the benefits for at least ten years."

"I said at least ten years~!" (End of this chapter)