Chapter 689: tengu moon
"Ha ha!"
After listening to Kevin Turner's report, even Dunn couldn't stop laughing.
On November 1st, Bestard officially launched a monthly membership subscription system. Following the Netflix model, members can enjoy three convenient services - no expiration date, no late fee, and no express postage.
The monthly membership fee is only $15.95.
Blockbuster is a listed company and should be accountable to its shareholders. It is well aware that the late payment policy in the past is very contradicted by the market, and it does not dare to ban it easily. This is thigh meat and cannot be easily cut.
However, with the split of Blockbuster and Viacom, Blockbuster has encountered an unprecedented crisis of survival and the pressure of huge debt, indicating that if Blockbuster does not become successful, there is only a dead end.
John Antioco broke the boat and established the online disc rental platform total_ess, in an attempt to defeat Netflix with the strong position of Best in the disc rental industry.
As a result, there was a big joke.
Blockbuster's industry status and strength are really not comparable to Netflix.
The total_ess platform has been online for three days, and almost all netizens in the United States have logged on this website to confirm the emergence of low-cost monthly subscriptions.
Then... the total_ess platform crashed four times in a row.
The shortest time, the repair took 26 minutes; the longest time, the web page crashed for more than 7 hours.
It just became a big joke.
Blockbuster split with Viacom in September, and launched an online rental platform in November. In just two months, according to normal Internet habits, there was not enough time for an internal test.
Online in a hurry, no problem is strange!
Seeing that Dunn was in a good mood, Kevin Turner joked: "When our stunt department starts, it is estimated that within 3-4 months, the online platform of Besta will not stop! John Andy It's okay for Aoke to engage in traditional industries and play the Internet... He's still too young!"
In the past few days, the crash of the total_ess platform was caused by Bestda itself. The traffic was too high and the server crashed.
This problem is not difficult to solve.
However, with the rise of Internet companies, the original sin is definitely no less than that of traditional companies!
Piracy, infringement, copycat, imitation, these are followed.
Black eats black, is the deepest water.
In this era, computer technology has not yet become popular, and the status of programmers is paramount, far from being comparable to the later "code farmers". In this process, programmers with excellent coding skills are not only responsible for the company's products, but also for safety.
That's right, in this era, hackers are all over the world!
It's a trivial matter that Mark Zuckerberg can hack into the Harvard campus network. There are hackers who have already hacked into the Pentagon!
But the result?
Not only innocent, but also hired by the US side with high salary, euphemistically called: enhance the security index of the firewall.
How ironic?
This is the case with the Department of Defense, and even more so with Internet companies. Under every powerful Internet company, there is a mysterious special technology department.
To put it bluntly, it is a group of hackers.
Competition in all walks of life has never lacked blood!
As a mature enough Internet company, Netflix is 100 times stronger than Blockbuster in terms of network operations!
Even if Blockbuster solves the small problem of the server crash, will they be able to resist the attack of Netflix's "stunt department" in the next few months?
The collapse every three or five times is enough to drive Blockbuster crazy.
Internet regulation at this time is far less strict than later generations.
Tang En waved his hand and said indifferently: "It doesn't matter to us how much they collapse. As long as our products are good enough and have a better user experience, that's enough."
Kevin Turner smiled and said: "On the 20th of this month, Netflix will be able to implement a price reduction. At that time, Blockbuster can wait to die. We have better algorithms, sufficient statistics, and they have What? Their staff can only do hard on-the-spot investigations, adjust Tibetan discs based on population data, and they can't even distinguish the types."
Tang En said: "Basida is about to die. The cheap version of the monthly subscription system for users is to drink poison to quench thirst! As long as we also cut prices, there will only be more and more users of Baishi defection!"
Kevin Turner said: "Silicon Valley has never lacked new concepts. In 1995, some people wanted to start a streaming media business, but the problem is that the development of technology cannot keep up with the creation of inspiration. The premise that new concepts can make money , it must be that the technology has developed in place, and Netflix has only started to make a profit in the last year or two. Blockbuster wants to eat a fat man as soon as it opens its mouth, it really thinks too much.”
Tang En smiled, and his voice was exciting and sonorous: "Yes, in the next three years, there will be a big scene of Tiangu eating the moon! Just let Netflix counterattack all the way!"
Even if Blockbuster owns 10,000 stores and more than 60,000 employees, it has been occupying the world's industry leader for 20 years, so what?
The era of the Internet is a challenge for emerging companies to traditional forces!
Moreover, behind Netflix, there is Dunn!
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The popularity of "The Walking Dead" is still sweeping the United States.
In media reports, even Marvel's masterpiece "Ant-Man" is not as sensational as this American drama.
With the broadcast of the second episode, the heat is even higher!
In the second episode, the hero Rick's wife Lori, and his best brother Sean had a "flash love", and then in the zombie forest, sparks broke out, and there was a vigorous "war" ".
The boldness of starz TV station shows Wushan, who is wandering on the edge of life and death, on a huge scale.
The surrounding zombies are constantly wandering, and it seems that they can rush over at any time to bring the pair of men and women who stole food in taboos to justice.
Sean, this friend, is really loyal enough.
With Rick's life and death still unknown, he has already climbed onto his friend's wife's body, doing his best to comfort him... Really ironic!
With the development of the plot, "The Walking Dead" gradually presents more the theme of the TV series to the audience.
In a catastrophe, the dark side of human nature will be exposed to the greatest extent.
There are mourning everywhere, zombies are everywhere, and human beings are lingering in it. It is not only the walking dead that bring destruction and harm, but also the fighting among the living...
Profound human torture, undisguised large-scale scenes, and beautifully crafted footage have become the biggest highlights of "The Walking Dead".
Even at the end of Blizzard's press conference, Dunn accepted a question about The Walking Dead.
That's right, it's Blizzard's press conference!
"Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne", released on July 1, has sold more than 2 million copies in North America!
2 million sets doesn't sound like much?
The official price of each set of games is $68.8!
In other words, Blizzard has already made more than 100 million US dollars in revenue after this game has been on the market for 4 months!
This is enough to offset Blizzard's huge investment in research and development in the past few years!
For example... "World of Warcraft"!
At this conference, Blizzard officially revealed to the outside world the research and development plan of "World of Warcraft".
It is expected that the internal testing can begin in March next year. It will be officially released in North America in November.
You know, the download speed of this era is still very slow.
If you want to play a large game such as "World of Warcraft", it is basically impossible to download it from the Internet. You can only buy a disc and install it. No doubt, this is another huge income.
Anyone who cares can see it.
Don't watch the sta TV network because of its broadcast of "The Walking Dead", its fame has shocked the United States.
But in terms of potential, maybe ten stas are not as good as one Blizzard.
The scale of starz TV station is too large, which is doomed to this TV station, which can only survive in a small specific area.
But Blizzard is different.
Games are the common language of the world! And the adhesiveness to users is much more than that of TV dramas!
Dunn can attend Blizzard's conference in person and stand for Blizzard, which is enough to show the importance he attaches to Blizzard.
"This is Blizzard's press conference, and it stands to reason that I don't need to answer questions about The Walking Dead. But since it's been raised, I can say a few more words."
Dunn, wearing a light blue suit and black-rimmed glasses, was particularly eye-catching among a group of Blizzard executives on stage.
"'The Walking Dead' is an excellent TV series. I know this time period, more TV viewers are watching 'Friends' on NBC. A classic not to be missed. I can tell you good news~www.wuxiaspot.com~The Walking Dead season 2 filming has started."
"However, I hope that everyone will not put all their attention on "The Walking Dead". Starz TV will launch more and better boutique TV series in the future. Next year, there will be another big investment with heavy investment. The production and broadcast of the American TV series is based on the background of the game "Warcraft"."
"This TV series will be supervised by Peter Jackson, the director of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and he will bring the original production team of "The Lord of the Rings" over for the post-production of "Warcraft", striving to present a perfect The visual effects. "World of Warcraft" will be officially released in the United States in November next year, and the same TV series will also be broadcast on starz TV, everyone will wait and see."
Dunn's answer was watertight, and soon returned to the theme of this conference.
The astute reporter quickly asked again: "Excuse me, Mr. Walker, will "World of Warcraft" be the same as "Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne" and refuse to cooperate with Blockbuster?"
As soon as these words came out, the faces of several Blizzard executives on the stage sank.
Tang En didn't care and said with a smile: "That's a good question. Games are different from DVDs. Every set of genuine games has an exclusive cdkey. Game leasing will break the rules of the industry, which is unfair to developers. . Players can go to Wal-Mart, or Carrefour to buy."
"That means...you're not going to work with Blockbuster, are you?"
"right!"
Dunn thought for a while and replied.
There is still a possibility of reconciliation between him and Redstone, but there can only be one between Netflix and Blockbuster!
At this time, you don't need to be soft! (https:)
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