"Do you know there is such a TV? OK, OK, buy me 20 sets. What, how much does it cost? Why is it so expensive?"
Ronald returned home and began to investigate and implement some clues from the dream on the plane. The first thing that gave him feedback was the thin flat-panel TV.
However, the assistant replied to him that currently only Fujitsu of Japan produces this kind of plasma TV in the American market. The 42-inch model costs US$15,000. At this price, buy the latest model of Sony's Trinitron
You can buy ten TV sets.
Ronald's habit of settling accounts as a commoner resurfaced, and he immediately changed his mind and bought only two units. One was sent home as a gift to Diane, and the other was placed in the office.
After the TV was delivered to his home and the workers installed it, Ronald turned it on and gave it a try.
He dug out the "Streets of Rage" video tape that Diane had previously shot in his bedroom to try out the effect. The results were mixed. The film was mainly shot in dark tones, and it was popular at the time to set off smoke on the set.
Create a soft light effect.
The plasma TV wasn't as bright as Sony's Trinitron, so movies with dark tones were particularly dim. Ronald had to close the curtains.
This time, the picture was much clearer, without the flicker of traditional picture tube TVs. Ronald took out the manual and found out that this was a new technology for progressive scanning of plasma TVs. In comparison, the high-end picture tubes of Trinitron
The TV set still uses the interlaced TV standard. In addition, the 42-inch TV set is relatively large, so Ronald retreated to the bed and felt that the distance was normal for watching TV.
I watched it for a while. In fact, the color reproduction of plasma TVs is not necessarily as good as Trinlon. But the immersion brought by the 16:9 large screen is unparalleled. Ronald even felt a little bit like watching a movie on the screen.
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If the cost of this type of TV drops in the future to the level of today's ordinary TVs, it may bring many changes to the industry's format.
The 16:9 screen makes the cutting or black borders used in video tapes unnecessary, and can be produced in a ratio similar to that of a movie widescreen.
In this case, the current video tape format needs to be improved. Or, the large screen requires a higher resolution, and maybe there will be a new carrier to provide the requirements for watching movies on a TV with a larger screen...?
Ronald had a lot of new ideas. This dream gave him some guesses about the future. If movies can be easily watched on computers in the future, then by then, will school education still have enough influence on film directors?
Need becomes a question.
Most people with directing talent go to college to solve a problem. They want to see and absorb the works of various directors of the past. If there is such a convenient channel to learn classic works, how can it be done?
Isn't it easier to learn directing?
Just like Quentin Tarantino now, he has always claimed that he learned all kinds of knowledge about directors in the video rental store, but deliberately did not tell the media that he had taken acting classes and learned a lot as a screenwriter on the crew.
The content of the shoot.
If the cost of making movies becomes cheaper in the future, maybe a self-taught genius director will emerge.
"Ronnie, why did you close the curtains?" Diane walked in at this time and asked strangely when she saw how dark the bedroom was. But as soon as she saw the big-screen TV, she understood what Ronald was doing.
I want to watch a movie.
"Oh my god, why did you turn this movie out?" Diane saw herself on the screen wearing a black and red Armani suit, and couldn't help but feel a little shy. At that time, she was very young and not yet twenty, but she had to play a character who was nearly thirty years old.
She is a ten-year-old popular rock and roll singer. Now she seems to be acting very fake, but her clothes are quite nice.
"God, my hair was so messy at that time, and this outfit, well..." Diane smiled sweetly, did Ronald want to recreate his appearance back then? During the filming, he
He called his name in confusion.
"Oh, I want to see the dark tones of the early 1980s on a big-screen TV..." Ronald smiled mid-sentence. Wasn't Diane's misunderstanding good? "Yes, I want to see it."
Look at what you looked like back then."
"Ronnie..."
"Diane..."
Two hours later, Ronald came out of the bedroom refreshed. His assistant had helped him collect the name of the Internet software in his dream.
The information on the desk said that this company called Netscape had just launched a beta version of software in October called Netscape Navigator.
This thing is said to be a new protocol that allows people who cannot operate BBSs such as USE to see other people's content on the Internet.
Old Internet software like USE is generally not used by people without some knowledge of computer usage. But the new Netscape Navigator is very friendly to non-professional users.
In contrast to Navigator, surfing the Internet under this new protocol is called Internet surfing.
By clicking with the mouse, you can use a so-called hyperlink to jump to new text. No training is required at all, anyone can do it.
The trial version still has many errors. The good news is that Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, launched the official version 1.0 of Netscape Browser just in the past two days.
In an industry magazine called "Wired", the full text of the various functions of Navigator 1.0 was published. Marc Andreessen's photo was placed on the cover of the magazine, and in addition to the introduction of new products on the inside pages
, as well as his exclusive interviews and many flattering articles.
"The Netscape Navigator browser will completely change the way information is accessed. Marc Andreessen said at the press conference that Netscape's goal is to make the Internet easily accessible to everyone, thereby making the Internet a mainstream technology rather than just
Limited to academic circles or technology enthusiasts.”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Well, this is good." Ronald picked up the floppy disk under the magazine interview and prepared to install this browser software.
"The browser is free for individual users and educational users. Netscape promises that the loading time of any page under the Netscape Navigator browser will not exceed 90 seconds."
"Free?" Ronald was surprised. Today's software is very expensive. For example, Microsoft's office suite costs hundreds of dollars when discounted. Netscape Navigator uses a free strategy to
It's free for personal and educational users. This is because you want to get the most users at once.
Such a good thing is actually free. This Marc Andreessen has quite a bit of the hippie style back then.
"Anyone can download the software on our official website and install it for free. The installation software is only 1M in size and can be downloaded in about 13 minutes using the oldest 14.4K Modem."
Not only is it free to use, you don't even need the usual floppy disk or CD distribution media. Netscape Browser directly provides downloading. As long as you use FTP to connect to their server, you can download it instantly.
Ronald opened his USE software, then found the address of the Netscape server, used the keyboard to enter the network address on the magazine into the FTP download location. Then he pressed the Enter key.
Hum, Ronald is using the fastest 128k ISDN dedicated line. It can be downloaded in more than a minute, which is more convenient than using a floppy disk.
I was happy to see that I was connected to the Internet. The download progress increased from 0% to 1% very quickly, but then, the download interface froze there and never moved again.
Ronald immediately gave up downloading, but honestly took out the floppy disk and installed the browser. Then he connected to the Netscape homepage. There was still nothing, all white, only the "N" logo.
It loaded slowly for half of the time, and then froze there again.
"Any page can be loaded in 90 seconds, but your own company's page cannot be refreshed." Ronald pressed the refresh button skillfully a few times. Maybe the free promise was too exciting, and now he went to Netscape.
There are so many people visiting the page that the server is overcrowded.
He had a browser, but he didn’t know where to look. Ronald felt that the searchable website in his dream had not yet appeared. He had to log in to USE’s BBS, and then asked honestly, “I installed Netscape Browser.
Device, where can I go to watch interesting content?”
After a while, many enthusiastic netizens responded.
"You can check out the online version of Wired Magazine."
Ronald entered the address bar of the browser according to the URL, and sure enough, the title of Wired magazine appeared on the page. This exclusive interview with Marc Andreessen was placed on their homepage for visitors to view.
Browsing this web page is indeed very convenient. You can use the mouse to drag the scroll bar up and down, and you can see a lot of content without turning pages like a magazine.
The only drawback is that the photo is relatively blurry and takes dozens of seconds to load.
"Thank you. Although my Modem is very fast, downloading pictures still kills it. I feel it is not suitable for reading online magazines now." Ronald quickly replied to the enthusiastic netizen, in short:
The words "Too many pictures kill the cat!"
"You can take a look at the Internet Virtual Library, which is a web page created by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the protocol. It has many resource links in the fields of physics, computer science, medicine, etc."
Ronald took a look and realized that this person might be a researcher from a university. He went to this online virtual library, which was full of textbooks and brief summaries of the latest research results. It was not fun at all.
"Thanks, but I'm looking for something more interesting."
Ronald replied, and a reply came back immediately, with an angry emoticon attached >:-(
"Dude, he's talking about the kind of fun, you nerd. For example, are there any 'good photos' of Hollywood female stars? You know what I mean." Another replyer named the netizen on Ronald's behalf.
’s voice.
Finally, it was the administrator of the online section who gave Ronald a reply, "You can go to a website called 'Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web.' They have everything there."
This is a collection of interesting websites created by two Stanford college students. After Ronald entered the address of akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo, a webpage with many hyperlinks appeared.
The web pages that can be browsed are clearly listed above according to various categories. In addition to categories that college students are interested in, such as arts and humanities, business and economics, Internet and computers, there is also an entertainment category that is not surprising. There are many below
Hollywood Links.
In addition to the movie database established by Microsoft and some BBSs that collect various movie reviews, the most eye-catching website is the Inter Movie Database (IMDb).
There are introductions to various movie actors and pages of the films they shot. It is very convenient to click with the mouse, and you can jump to browse at any time.
The disadvantage is that most of the movie stars and movies have not been included yet. This website automatically uploads the information by movie fans, and then releases it after being reviewed by the website's founder Cole Needham.
However, the existing information is quite good, and it is much more convenient than slowly looking for information in yearbooks.
In addition, since an audition photo that is blurry due to insufficient resolution takes 90 seconds to load, IMDb does not attach photos of actors most of the time.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! There are only a handful of movie stars with photos on the entire website. Only Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, James Dean, and a few others have photos.
A movie star with many fans...plus one more...Jackie Chan.
Ronald thinks this website is very good and intends to invest some money here to help Cole Needham create files for all movie stars. It will be much more convenient for Hollywood casting directors in the future.
Ronald then found his phone number on the webpage and called him. Cole Needham worked in Bristol, England, and was a software engineer. No wonder he could build the website's architecture by himself.
Cole Needham didn't believe it was Ronald Lee calling him at first, but when he found out through the caller ID that it was Hollywood, he believed it. After that, the two talked about his film projects.
Cole Needham is a familiar look to fans.
Ronald also understood why Cole Needham would fund the maintenance of the server for a hobby and devote all his spare time. This guy is also a huge movie fan.
"Can I ask you why most celebrities don't have pictures?"
"Ah, that's because the server bandwidth required for photos is very expensive. I pay for it myself and can't bear too much. I can only choose some celebrities that everyone likes to post a few photos."
Ronald thought that this was indeed the case, and the idea of acquiring him became more and more important. Such selfless movie fans need support.
"I understand both Monroe and Hepburn, but why did you give Jackie Chan so many photos?"
"Ah, this is because I am a fan of his movies. I like watching his movies so much."
"Ah, so it's like this. Jackie is a good friend of mine. He will come to Hollywood soon to attend the premiere of his new movie Red Zone. Do you want to come? I will introduce you to each other. By the way, I will take care of your air tickets and hotel. I am so
I like your website, and we can discuss how to make it better.”
"Ahh..." Cole Needham over there quickly agreed, and after putting down the phone, he started yelling. He was unexpectedly invited by Ronald Lee to go to Hollywood to meet his idol Jackie Chan. And all of this stemmed from
Since my webpage was seen by Ronald, the Internet is really a magical place.