Chapter 1183 The Olympic Technology Explosion (Third update, please subscribe)
Olympic Games!
Since the 1960s, the focus of the entire Nanyang seems to have been on the Olympic Games. This is the first time that the Olympic Games have been held in an Asian country.
In order to successfully host the Olympic Games, Nanyang invested billions of dollars in infrastructure and public works construction after winning the right to host the Olympic Games in 2005, building Olympic venues and related supporting facilities, and strengthening public civilization. , showcases Nanyang’s traditional culture, thus promoting the development of Nanyang’s manufacturing, construction, transportation, services, electronic communications, sports, tourism, leisure and cultural industries.
Through the Olympic Games as a shot in the arm, Nanyang's economy surged from 1958 to 1960, and even formed the phenomenon of "Olympic Boom". Many economists also regard the Chang'an Olympic Games as the engine of Nanyang's economic take-off.
Of course, there are many engines for Nanyang's economy, and the Olympic Games is just one of them.
The purpose of hosting the Olympic Games in Nanyang is more to show the international image of Nanyang and to show the "Miracle of Nanyang" praised by the world to the world, thereby further establishing the Nanyang brand.
What is Nanyang Brand?
It is construction and development. This is the biggest card that attracts developing countries.
However, Nanyang later regarded the Olympic Games as a comprehensive national undertaking and included it in the "National Income Doubling Plan" and the "National Economic Rapid Growth Plan." Taking the Olympic Games as an opportunity and through high investment, we can drive the rapid development of various industries and achieve sustained economic and social prosperity. A series of Olympic venues have risen from the ground, ring highways have been extended, new trams, new subways, etc. have further consolidated the foundation of Chang'an's transportation.
To a certain extent, the Olympic Games have made Chang'an more prosperous and modern. In newspapers, the Olympic Games has always been the focus of most people's attention. It can even be said that at present, there is no news that attracts more attention than the Olympic Games.
At the subway station, in front of the donation box of the Charity Federation, just like in the past, there will always be people passing by to donate money. There are adults, children, Chinese and Europeans. People are walking in a hurry After passing by, he hurriedly expressed some love. When passing by, he glanced at the poster on the wall. Zhao Mingren sighed inwardly, then stuffed one yuan into the donation box, and then hurriedly entered the station and got on the bus.
On the wall of the carriage, there are posters of "Faster, Higher, Stronger" hanging in both English and Chinese. The athletes on the poster fully display their heroic postures during exercise. Regardless of the strong muscles of male or female athletes wearing sportswear, the strength and physical beauty displayed will always attract people's attention.
Although Nanyang's aesthetics is influenced by tradition, education is influenced by Germany, and Tangshan in modern times regards physical weakness as a sign of incompetence. Therefore, Nanyang as a whole now tends to be physically strong and strong. Muscle aesthetics.
Rumpy muscles and a solid abdomen have long become the most popular body standards among young people. This kind of aesthetics is naturally fully displayed on the poster. Zhao Mingren looked thoughtfully at the muscular athletes on the poster. Zhao Mingren was lost for a while. After an unknown period of time, the sound of announcing departure sounded in the carriage.
After hearing the arrival of Chang'an Tower station, Zhao Mingren got up and got out of the car. As soon as he walked out of the station, Chang'an Tower came into view - this 600-meter-high Chang'an Tower, once completed, became a landmark in Nanyang. Before communication satellites, its signals could cover half of Japan to the north and Myanmar and other places to the west.
This TV Tower is not only the landmark of Chang'an, but also the communication center of Nanyang culture. It is of course also the headquarters of Asia Television. Below Chang'an Tower is the Asia Television Tower, a building more than 200 meters high. Under the hill where Chang'an Tower is located, the subway station is in front of the building. After entering the building, before he got to the elevator, a colleague hurriedly caught up with him and said:
"Director, the big boss is here."< br>
“What?”
Who is the big boss?
It is definitely not the general manager of Asia Television, but Zhu Yihai, the general manager of the Labor Group. Asia Television is just a subsidiary of the Labor Group. What is the big boss doing at this time?
Before Zhao Mingren could figure it out, as soon as he stepped out of the elevator, the assistant hurried over and said:
"Director, the boss has asked you to go to the conference room on the 42nd floor as soon as you arrive. ”
Hurry into the elevator again, and then take the elevator to the top floor. Soon, Zhao Mingren arrived at the conference room. Through the glass wall of the conference room, you could see other people explaining something, and the big boss was sitting there. There.
Walking into the conference room, after listening for a short while, Zhao Mingren understood why the big boss was here - it was about the Olympics broadcast.
"... During the last Melbourne Olympics, with the emergence of communication satellites, we enabled television to carry out live broadcasts across continents, and successfully carried out live broadcasts, with good results. We still have the broadcasting rights for this Olympics. Using the same method, but thanks to the fact that we already have three communication satellites, we can broadcast globally..."
Before launching the first artificial communication satellite, Asia Television negotiated with the International Olympic Games In this way, the intercontinental broadcast rights of the Olympic Games were purchased for US$50,000 per year, and a one-time payment of US$500,000 was made. Such a large expenditure brought astonishing returns.
Before the launch of artificial satellites, the method of broadcasting important long-distance operations was to edit and produce documentaries shot in advance, and then broadcast them to various countries, which could not cross continents and lost the effectiveness of the news. If it is across continents, the film needs to be transported by plane. In short, live broadcast is impossible.
However, the invention of artificial communication satellites changed everything. Through a small trial in Melbourne, Asia Television received millions of dollars in return - this was just a return for agreeing to broadcast programs by television stations in Europe and the United States. Excludes revenue from advertising and other aspects. As far as Zhao Mingren knows, the revenue from the broadcast of the Melbourne Olympics alone covers the development and launch costs of the two communication satellites APSTAR 1 and APSTAR 2, and the balance is almost enough to launch the APSTAR 3 communication satellite.
In a word, broadcasting the Olympic Games is a sure-profit business. In the past few years, Asia Television has made a lot of money just by renting satellites to rebroadcast the signals of television stations in other countries. Companies that have tasted the benefits of satellites are now researching a new generation of communication satellites.
Before the Olympic Games is about to start, the big boss naturally wants to come here and pay attention to this goose that can only lay golden eggs.
Of course, they have made a lot of preparations for the Olympic Games recently, such as fully broadcasting color signals. Two months ago, Nanyang entered the era of color television.
In fact, it’s not just about color signals. As a promoter of color TV, Asia Television also works with related companies to research and improve color picture tubes. The reason why Nanyang’s color TVs are so popular in countries around the world is not because of its The price is relatively low, but because the color effect is better. According to the industry, Nanyang's color picture tubes are about 5-7 years ahead of the United States. Among them, Asia Television has some credit. They have developed more advanced broadcast equipment, allowing The broadcast picture becomes clearer and the colors are richer.
“Well, very good, you are very well prepared.”
Putting the report on the conference table, Zhu Yihai praised it and asked:
"What about the live broadcast? How many cameras have we invested in it? Is there any problem with the lens switching?"
This It was just a matter of technical details. When the director saw Zhao Mingren who had just come in, he immediately shouted.
"Director Zhao, come and introduce these situations to Mr. Zhu."
"Okay."
Hearing this, Zhao Mingren stepped forward and introduced the technical department's preparations for the live broadcast process, screen switching and photography technology. In fact, for Nanyang, the Olympic Games is not just about showing the prosperity and construction of Nanyang on the surface. Behind these achievements, there are many technological advances that are not well known to people.
“…In addition to high-definition cameras, we also developed a new tape recorder in cooperation with Nanyang University. Compared with the "Ampere VRX-1000" tape recorder of the American Ampere Company, it uses 18 mm tape. More portable, it can not only record the game in real time, but also adjust the time of live broadcast and broadcast, ensuring that the audience will not miss any game..."
From satellite broadcast to higher definition Cameras, as well as screen switching and broadcast control systems, are jointly researched by Asia Television and Nanyang universities and companies. Many technologies that seem clumsy at this time are actually the most advanced.
These technologies are all aspects. Although a considerable part of these technologies are copied by King's Laboratory based on the technical information and physical objects provided by Li Yi'an, they are technically the most advanced.
To a certain extent, this Olympics is definitely the one with the highest technical content in the history of the Olympics. The emergence of the pioneering small tape recorder not only fundamentally changed photography and video technology, but also changed other aspects. This is true.
Take the timer used in a competition as an example. Competition timing often needs to be accurate to decimal seconds. This kind of accuracy could only be achieved by high-precision chronographs in the past. Although quartz clocks could be more accurate later, quartz clocks at that time were bulky and consumed a lot of power, so they were difficult to use. Very inconvenient.
To this end, Lange Company in Nanyang has carried out technical research. Not only did it make a portable quartz clock weighing only 1 kilogram during the Asian Games, but it also made a pocket watch-sized quartz stopwatch last year. The timer is already the most advanced. These results were directly used in quartz watches, directly breaking the international monopoly of Swiss watches.
In the past decade or so, the emergence of many advanced products has been the world's first impression of Nanyang products.
After all, Li Yian has rejected low-end manufacturing from the beginning, and Nanyang did not choose to rely on cheap labor to gain competitive advantages. Instead, it determined the development direction of industrial upgrading and technological nation-building. For more than ten years, Nanyang The brand and quality have always amazed the world.
The current Olympic Games is an intensive presentation. Not just for presentation, to a certain extent, in order to cooperate with the holding of the Olympic Games, Nanyang's industry has launched a large number of products. These products seem to be to serve the Olympic Games, but in the end they will be put into the civilian market, even if For a while, they cannot be put directly into the market due to price and other reasons, but with the development of technology, they will become the mainstream of the market and lead the consumption trend of this era.
A variety of advanced products that look like black technology in this era are destined to amaze the world through the Olympic Games.
More than an hour later, after leaving the Asia Television Building, Zhu Yihai, who was sitting in the car, occasionally cast his eyes on the "Chang'an Tower", the world's largest TV tower that has amazed the world since its inception. , has long become a symbol of Nanyang.
However, at this time, an idea emerged in his heart involuntarily.
What is the true symbol of Nanyang?
(End of this chapter)