Chapter 7 Memory Fragments About Buying Discs

VCD complex For the generation born in the 1960s and going to college in the 1980s, there is a saying called "six-eight-style".Then, let's postpone it for a while, and call the next group of young people "Seven and Nine Styles". In the "Seventy-Nine Styles" reminiscence articles, most of their youth was dedicated to the video halls that bloomed everywhere in the 1990s, while the "Sixty-eight Styles" watched movies mostly in theaters.Of course, the effect of videotape is not as good as that of film, but the youth in the theater is not worthy of thanks, because the film catalog at that time was too poor, so the package ticket of the internal film festival became the most sought-after commodity, a slow-paced movie.

The dull atmosphere of "Golden Pond" can surprise a group of passionate young people. Recently, I saw a material saying that because the "cocktail therapy" drugs for the treatment of AIDS were too expensive, patients in many third world countries could only sit and wait for death. Therefore, the Brazilian government ignored the protection of intellectual property rights and decided to imitate these drugs desperately. medicine for the poor.Tell me, who is more moral?"Therefore, when those films that cannot be seen in theaters began to spread in the form of video tapes in the land of China, I think the positive significance is very great: the films are restored to the public without being screened by some people, It is no longer the cultural privilege of certain professionals.

From this point of view, "Seventy-nine" is luckier than "Sixty-eight", because they have so many movies to choose from at the age when they love watching movies the most.At this time, the "six-eight-style", although they have already started to make money and have a video recorder at home, so they don't have to go to the video hall like young people, but their enthusiasm is no longer high, and they often watch it. If they get sleepy, or if there is something more attractive to them than the movie, they will leave after seeing half of it. Video tapes have not been popular for a few years. A round plastic sheet called "VCD" with a hole in the middle began to enter our lives with the help of a DVD player known as "super error correction".A few years later, a shiny plastic disc that looks similar to a VCD began to replace it, and it was called a "DVD".They and another kind of plastic disc called "LD" which is extremely large but also has a hole in the middle are collectively referred to as "DVD".

Unknowingly, our movie-watching life has entered the DVD era. As for video discs, I don’t really like VCDs, because the first time I saw it, it was the so-called gun version (1), the screen is oblique, and the picture quality is like a French art film; the sound is mixed with the audience’s laughter and shock Phew, like a sitcom.Even if you make a good film, you won’t be able to see how good it is. Later, I used the DVD to make up lessons, and then I realized that it was a masterpiece. Accompanied by VCD is LD with a small market. The effect of LD is no less than that of today's DVD, and there is no deliberate sharpening in DVD technology. The soft and full picture is very ironic.I once watched the sequel of "Terminator" N times (N≥6) in the video hall mixed with the smell of sweat and foot odor, but when I saw the LD version, I was stunned by its audio and video quality, and angry Watch it M times (M≥N).

Even if it is a good-looking VCD, I don't think it can compare with LD, so I have never invested too much money in this area, and I don't care if others show it to me or even give it to me for free.But looking back now, the subtitles of VCDs are really particular (of course, LD is the same), like the poem read at the funeral in "Four Weddings and a Funeral", I believe it is difficult to have such a sophisticated translation on DVDs nowadays up: Stop the clock, unplug the phone, Don't let the dog bark at the bone. Don't play the piano, tie up the drums, Carry out the coffin and let people mourn.

Let the planes of the sky whine too, Leave a message in the sky—he's gone. To tie a mourning veil around the dove's neck, Put black gloves on the traffic cops, He is my North, South, East and West, is my weekday, my Sunday, my noon, my midnight, my words, my songs, I always thought love could be immortal, But I was wrong. Now the stars are no longer needed, Let them go out, Put away the moon, tear down the sun, Drain the seas and pluck the trees, Because the world is no longer good (2). In the era when VCD is rampant, what I watch is LD. LD relies purely on smuggling, without piracy, and each copy is about 600 yuan, which is unaffordable. Fortunately, there are video stores for rent, and a membership card is enough.For two years, I carried a big bag (good enough to hold a one-foot-square CD) on my back every day, and rode a bicycle through several video stores in the city, using different membership cards to borrow good movies from each store. Watch it at home and transcribe it to a video tape.Some new films are particularly popular, so you need to register and queue up.I often received a call when I was at work (I couldn’t afford a big brother at that time), saying that someone from "Brave Heart" happened to be back, and there was an extra biker on the road in that city. The figure of sweat dripping off the road, every grain of happiness.

The translated name of "The Age of Innocence" is "Extraordinary Love", and the cover of LD is also a scene of the hero and heroine embracing passionately, which is quite different from the restrained theme of the film, so I never knew that it was the "Age of Innocence" that I dreamed of, even though it Already sitting quietly on an inconspicuous shelf collecting dust.One night when I was bored, I opened a piece of "Wen Wei Po", and there was a manuscript by Pan Xiangli in the "PEN Club". Only after I saw it did I realize that "A Quiet Love Beyond My Heart" was "The Age of Innocence".It's a pity that the video store was closed at that time, so I couldn't sleep all night.With the rising sun in the morning, I was already waiting there before the store opened, and then made up a reason not to go to work in the morning, sitting quietly in front of the TV, watching Martin Scorsese's roses Blooming like a short-lived epiphyllum (3).

Regarding LD, the most unbearable news I have heard is that Cheng Yizhong, the editor-in-chief of "Southern Metropolis Daily", has nearly a thousand copies in his collection.A sinful idea I had was to live in Guangzhou for a while, get to know him well, lend me all his CDs, and then go to the Anti-Corruption Bureau to sue him for the unknown origin of his huge wealth, and send this kid to jail , that pile of discs is all mine. The first DVD I bought was "Conspiracy Theory" by Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts, priced at 198 yuan.Although there was no DVD player at home at that time, after looking at it in a video store, I concluded that it would be the mainstream of audio-visual products in the future, so I bought one as a collection.

Half a year later, I got my own DVD player, which was the first among the group of people around me to have a DVD player. Everyone gathered at my house to see it, and they were amazed. At that time, they didn't have the pile of VCDs they bought for themselves. feel remorse. I bought three DVDs in batches for 100 yuan earlier, and there were occasionally smuggled Taiwanese genuine ones at 100 yuan each; later, when they came out in glass cases, they changed to 40 yuan each, so I bought them accordingly.I also bought genuine copies in Hong Kong, about 200 yuan each.I bought some uncommon films, hoping to show them off to others after returning to Beijing.

At the beginning, I was indeed envied by others, but I soon found out sadly that there were two DVDs that stumbled in the second half of my DVD player.When I was depressed, I thought, hum, this three-quarters is not something other people can see.Half a year later, those two films came out as pirated copies, and I bought them back for less than one-tenth of the original version. It turned out that the reading was smoother than the original version.I had no choice but to smile instead of anger, and collect it as a specimen in the history of piracy. There are also pirated copies in Hong Kong, about 100 yuan each.My greatest achievement was to cobble together almost a whole set of Hitchcocks in a few shops in Hong Kong.Those shops are not close to each other, and the roads in Hong Kong are devious, but love is the natural enemy of difficulties, and I finally collected more than 20 cards.A friend who edited the book "Scream for Hitchcock" came to live in my house in Beijing and saw these old fat men with black covers. I don't know if he had the idea I had about Cheng Yizhong.

However, after seeing my discs, his expression suddenly became calmer than usual.I immediately came to four conclusions: 1, this kid is really rich; 2, he is definitely jealous; 3, I can no longer accept the food and drink he provided me casually, and avoid letting him stand behind me; 4, he When leaving my house, if I haven't been poisoned or knocked unconscious by him, I must secretly check his bag. Embarrassing facts about DVDs My principle of life is, before others open their mouths to laugh at my own scandals or physical defects, let's speak first, destroy myself to the point of incompleteness, and let the other party face the scars that I have exposed myself. , only sympathy, comfort and energy are left to do nothing. In line with this principle, before others mention my soup DVD, I'd better shake off this embarrassing thing first. When DVD discs first came out, the variety of DVD players was not very rich. Except for the expensive foreign brands, there were only two or three domestic ones, so many people bought the discs first and kept them. The so-called "software first" .But when I saw those useless DVDs, I panicked, so I spent more than 2,000 yuan to bring home a "Hongtu" DVD, which attracted the envy of the whole city.It was the summer of 1999. It's really good, it's really good. Compared with their VCDs, it's simply not a thing of the same era.I have enough reason to convince all the fetishists around me who are obsessed with those plastic discs with eyes in the middle, go buy the DVD, the effect is just different.How many years will you live in total?Watching one year later means enjoying one less year, and the lost happiness cannot be replaced by any amount of money... What brand of machine should I buy?Of course it belongs to Hongtu, look at my Hongtu, how great it is.Have you watched Hongtu's TV commercial?It's still listed in the US... In this way, I helped Hongtu sell two more machines, and one was sold to my junior brother. His puppy named "Murdoch" bit me later. I don't know if it has anything to do with this bad sales. relationship; the other was sold to a friend named "Little Watering Can with Iron Mouth", which made his mouth look more like a watering can watering flowers in the process of humiliating me later. But, in good conscience, I didn't take a penny in kickbacks, and I sincerely hope to bring them happiness. The problem came right away, no matter how enthusiastically I invited customers to come to my house to enjoy the wonderful effect of the DVD, they would often carefully ask: "Is there a construction site outside your house?" I hurriedly shook my head in denial, and they comforted me: "It's okay , I heard the sound of this tractor is not very noisy." The sound of the tractor from the DVD player is fine, anyway, the decibel level will not affect the sound of the movie itself.What's more, its ability to recognize discs is really low.In the days when I was with Hongtu, I often had to go to the video store to change a movie several times, and finally had to give up, and that movie never came out again. This kind of loss is simply irreparable.And what if you change to a machine with better disk recognition ability?My current disc collection is another number. It also often breaks out some inexplicable problems, the most terrible thing is that the video disc will be stuck in it and it will not spit out, and most of the stuck videos are pornographic.While doubting the morality of the Hongtu brand DVD, I took the machine to the repair shop near Fuyou Street for repair.It's very close to Zhongnanhai, and I'm an intellectual at any rate. Whenever the maintenance staff took out the pornography that was embezzled by it, my face turned red with embarrassment, and I was afraid of being green. On the one hand, I was dragged down by the machine, and on the other hand, I was ridiculed by my friends who were dragged down by me. The resentment in my heart can be imagined. From this, I hated all the listed companies in China, cursed their stock prices to plummet, and even got banned by ST (4).Heaven and man are all angry, my curse has obviously worked, and those listed companies that have lost their conscience are now all out of business. Hongtu is not easy to mess with. When I started to dislike it, it also added new problems - as long as I play for a while, there will be some white liquid and sticky objects on the tray where the disc is placed, and even the disc will be removed. Get dirty.I suspect that it became so soupy after watching a lot of porn, and later my friend explained that it was caused by the loose wax that welded the components together. After more than a year, my patience reached the limit, so I went to buy a Sony 345 and went home. At this time, the price of a Sony has been reduced to 1,600 yuan.My wife stared at me when she saw that I moved the grand plan to a corner and discarded it.I said to her, "You can be content. For just two thousand yuan, we bought three machines—a DVD player, a tractor, and an ice cream machine." buy discs Having enough money to buy discs is an important indicator of my ideal happy life. Fortunately, I realized this very early. DVDs were so expensive in the early days, why didn't I even blink when I bought them? I am not a rich man, and according to my observations, all those fetishes are basically not rich people, and rich people turn earning and saving money into the performance art of their fetishes.But I can buy discs without blinking an eye, mainly based on the following Six reasons—— One, even though I'm a married man, I still have a lot of freedom to spend money, so I can use it to do things I like.A word of advice to married men: Men should be self-reliant and financially independent. Second, apart from buying dishes and meals, I don’t need to spend money on other aspects. For example, I only buy a pair of shoes in three or four years. I will wear these shoes from summer to winter until the soles of the shoes are exposed, and then I will buy a new pair of replacements. one time. Third, I can earn some royalties by writing some manuscripts on these DVDs. Although the salary is a drop in the bucket, it is somewhat comforting, showing that DVDs are not just playthings, but a tool for labor. The DVD also allows me to stay at home, which my wife is very happy with. Fourth, I read some DVD advertisements in American magazines. The price of a DVD is usually 29.99 or 19.99 US dollars. In comparison, you will feel that you are getting a huge bargain.Especially when you buy a good movie you have dreamed of, you will be pleasantly surprised, and you can't wait to add some money to it. Fifth, if there is a disc in front of you, and you don’t buy it because you love money, and you still can’t find it in the poor, the blue, or the hell, you will know how painful it is to miss it.So when it's time to act, you must act decisively. Sixth, the most important thing is that the pleasure of holding a pile of discs in your arms cannot be measured by money.It's hard enough for people to earn money, but it's so hard to spend it, it's not worth it. My disc buying career is divided into two stages, one is the self-acquisition period, and the other is the agency period. In 2000, I was working in a job with a higher salary and no shifts, so I spent at least two afternoons every week in Xinjiekou, the most developed audio-visual market in Beijing.Starting from the Jishuitan Bridge area, we have to go to the "high steps" near Xisi (I call it "Datong shop"). In line with the principle of not leaving empty, we have to sweep every shop.The intensity of this trip is no less than that of a field trip with a heavy load, which is called "purchasing with a basket". The basket shopping team often includes four or five people, among which the Lonely Ghost and I have the highest attendance rate, and occasionally some social idlers will take a ride.It was a really happy year. In my memory, it is spring all year round.How many years have you been looking forward to a good movie, and it is so arrogantly and quietly placed on the shelf, waiting for you to touch and hug her, but her worth is not at all pretentious.You are like a locust, flying over a lush crop field, humming with contentment. When I go to the Xinjiekou shopping mall, I will stop and ask for a Shaanxi cold noodle, squatting on the side of the road and eating it.The Lonely Ghost and the others disapproved, but they still loyally accompanied them.There are three starting points for this kind of performance art. One is hunger; You can run straight home, turn on the DVD player, review the purchased DVDs one by one, and let out a happy groan. One day, I was the only one carrying a basket to do the shopping. I scoured a lot of DVDs, and then I carried them home.Sitting in a taxi, walking on the streets of Beijing, looking at the world of mortals outside like smoke, watching the good movie in my arms like a dream, I feel that I have the happiness of the whole world.Then I called Lonely Ghost and shared the mood with him.There was a song of joy in our hearts. Humans are cheap animals, and good things are often remembered better than bad things.I have also eaten many luxurious and corrupt banquets, but they are just clouds.At the banquet, everyone was flying with chopsticks in their right hand and cups in their left hand, but in my eyes, they were all waving small shovels, and they were digging holes hard, preparing to bury others.The whole of Beijing is such a big construction site. Everyone is digging holes with shovels, burying people or being buried by people. On such a construction site, I can sneak out of Fusheng for half a day to buy dishes and eat a piece of Shaanxi Liangpi. Although the eating environment is not very good, especially in winter, squatting on the side of the road in the howling wind, my hands are freezing It can hardly be stretched straight, and the cold skin is mixed with ice, but I still eat it very sweetly, because I don't have to worry about digging holes to bury people. So the scene of eating Shaanxi Liangpi has become a treasure in my memory. Qiong Yao has a novel about a pair of lovers sharing a cup of sugarcane juice when they are in trouble. Later, the love is no longer there. The man finds a cup of sugarcane juice to tease the woman in exchange for reliving the mandarin dream (5).Friends, if I unfortunately become a vegetative person in the future, or become a jerk after losing my conscience, please take a piece of Shaanxi Liangpi and fan it in front of my nose. The (6) surround sound floated into my ears. pirated video market "High Steps" is located at the north end of West Fourth Street. The first floor sells industrial products. The brand says "Snakeskin Tube". So this place has three names: snake skin tube, high steps (often abbreviated as GTJ on the Internet), and Datongpu.This is heaven for eye-catching plastic wafer lovers in the middle of Beijing. I am already a white-collar ed at this time, and I am also particular about shopping places. If there are many choices, I am more willing to go to the sweat smell It's a lighter place where you don't need to squat to pick dishes, so you don't have much affection for high steps. This is just a place to pick up and fill in the gaps.But every time I go inside and see so many young people eagerly holding DVDs or game software CDs, I am still very excited.Chinese children can finally enjoy the same achievements of human civilization on the same starting line as others. Those eager teenagers, who dare to say that he is not the future Linus Torvalds (7) or Bill Gates ( 8)? But after all, this place is engaged in illegal and tortious activities. Under the pursuit of the relevant departments, the fate of the high steps is ill-fated. Some small shops are often raided, and even the entire Datong shop is taken away.After several times of ups and downs, Gaodai finally lost its glory. It was first converted into an Internet cafe, and then was killed in the Internet cafe rectification movement. Gossip needless to say, Table 1 shows the heroic old sixth brother, This day he went to the high steps, Almost got caught by the police. Let me tell you a few words about Shandong Kuaishu, and talk about my high-level horror story. That day I made an appointment with Lonely Ghost to meet up on the high steps. I arrived one step ahead and sat on the sofa in the back of a small shop waiting for him, admiring the pile of dishes on my lap. Suddenly, a deep and rapid voice shattered the void on the high steps full of people's voices. I didn't hear what it was shouting for a moment.Looking up, the crowd was scattered in a hurry.I took the dish off my lap and stood up again. At this time, more than a dozen people in the store had disappeared, and the door had been locked. I closed the curtain with one hand and said to me, "Hide away!" Don't move! I'll pick you up in a while." There are many adverbs in ancient Chinese to describe the rapidity of time, and I can't remember them.Anyway, when I recalled it and realized that the sentence was "receive", the high steps crowded shoulder to shoulder had become silent, and I was the only one sitting on the sofa alone, not daring to move, with black eyes and white ones. fear. Another sudden, my mobile phone shattered into the void, and the piercing ringtone stirred in the air.It reminds me of that scene in "Gunfire". After two rings, I picked it up tremblingly, and said "Hello" in a low voice. It was the lonely ghost who called and told me that he was standing by the side of the road with the owner of the small shop, and that the wind would pass soon, so don't be afraid. The alarm was lifted, I walked out of the high steps, opened my eyes and looked, and was out of breath.It turned out that it was a bunch of miscellaneous people from the TV station who resisted the camera to collect news, which caused the chaos.These idiots are happier than anyone else when they buy a disc, and they still think about messing with others, their conscience is dead. When I was in college, I often had such a scene in my mind: a pair of very good brothers in high school, one became a policeman and the other became a thief. In a certain year, one pointed the gun at the other... After more than ten years Washed away, this plot has been forgotten, and I started to make up such a story: a reporter, a disc dealer, the two forged a deep friendship in buying and selling discs, and later the disc dealer was imprisoned in the crackdown, while the reporter was struggling. In short, my country has cracked down hard on piracy, and captured the disc dealer XX Yun. On the eve of New Year's Day in 2001, I came to Guangzhou to welcome the new century with the elites of Southern Newspapers.Cheng Yizhong first finished writing the Southern Metropolis Daily New Year's Day editorial (I read the first draft, and the last sentence was "It's not that we are too NB, but they are too SB", I don't know whether to keep it after it was published), and rushed to the restaurant.When I saw this haggard and honest man from Jiangxi, the first thing I said was, "Dog!" He didn't understand why I harbored such a great hatred for him, and he treated the villain's guests with the heart of a gentleman, and specially arranged for a little brother to accompany me to the pirated video market in Guangzhou.I felt guilty for sacrificing this buddy's vacation time, but he happily led me to a place similar to Beiping Datong shop. As soon as I entered the disc market, the familiar smell of sweat, cigarettes, plastic, and foot odor, mixed with pleasant bargaining Cantonese, came to my nostrils, and I couldn't bear it anymore, like Quentin · Seeing Wu Yusen (9), Tarantino quickened his pace and walked quickly. The brother didn't walk too slowly, and he said to me as he walked, "Brother Six, do you know? As soon as I entered this place and smelled this smell, I felt intoxicated." I was fainted by the smoke at this time, so I didn't have time to say more, I just hugged his shoulder emotionally. After buying a bunch of good discs, such as "God of Gamblers", I greeted that brother contentedly, only to find out that his name is Wu Qiang. A year later, he was recruited by sports giant Qu Youyuan (10) and came to Beijing to edit "Football Weekly".One afternoon, we met at a bar in Sanlitun. When I got there, I couldn't find him.It turned out that when we were together for half a day, only the disc flickered in my eyes, and I didn't have time to distract myself to take a look at his appearance. After the meeting, my main concern was of course: "Did you bring those discs?" Later, Wu Qiang went to Sichuan with Li Chengpeng to practice the "21st Century Sports News", and that newspaper soon ended without a problem. I don't know where he ended up. The rivers and lakes are so dangerous, and life is so turbulent, and the only ones who accompany us loyally are those shiny little dishes. dish city In the past two years, I traveled a lot on business. Every time I went to a place, the affairs of the government could be postponed, and the places of interest and historical sites could be imagined with text introductions, but the local DVD market must be investigated.Over time, my friends all over the world know my standard of "three companions" - drinking, playing mahjong, and buying pirated DVDs.The quality of their escorts also determines the ranking order in my friend book, among which the degree of familiarity with the video market is the most important indicator. No way, I'm just being pragmatic and snobby. And I have another skill: being able to make friends with local pirate dealers in the shortest possible time.One year, I returned to my long-lost hometown, Shijiazhuang, and my old friend took me to Taihe Electronic City, the distribution center for optical discs in North China, and put me in the place of a pirate dealer, with whom I secretly communicated about the music.When I go next time, the guy has already hugged the pipa. When he sees us coming, he greets me first, passes me the cigarette first, and lets me sit on the only small horse. Yelling, the old friend was so angry that he called the ruthless bitch and the businessman unrighteous. But I like this kind of trick where love grabs the knife. It is impossible to travel to a certain place without unfamiliar people, but it is also impossible to expect like-minded people everywhere.So I was often alone, or was pointed at by two-pole players and ran around ineffectively.Over time, I have also trained a sense of smell that is sharper than that of a hound. Wherever I go, even if my eyes are darkened, I can still find the DVD of Jinyi Night Walk. The only exception happened in Changzhou. I wandered there on the third day of the new millennium. The city is not big, but I couldn't find a decent disc store, and there were quite a lot of LD version swimsuit karaoke. Later, I met a few beautiful writers from Changzhou, and I felt that it was easy for them to become talents in that land: without the interference of audio-visual products, they could write with peace of mind, and they watched too much karaoke in swimsuits and had natural figures. Wu Sikai once sang: "New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, snow falls at every stop on the lonely road" (11), and for me, Shanghai, Xiamen and Changsha, the motherland is full of flowers.Of course it is the flower of the DVD. In the past two years, the development of the dish market in various places was very uneven, and it can be said that each has its own characteristics. You can often buy good things here that you cannot buy elsewhere, so you must insist on not being empty and not afraid of thieves The principle of being afraid of thieves.Cixi Road in Shanghai, Computer City in Chengdu, West Lake Bar District in Hangzhou, Phoenix Terrace in Changsha, Quanyechang in Wuxi, Jiaozhou Road in Qingdao, I linger everywhere. Now it’s gone, the video disc market is booming across the board, the whole country is playing chess, and the disc markets in various places are becoming more and more homogeneous, and they have become impersonal. Touching some old discs, I can still recall the charming scenery of the street where I bought them, the intimate physical friction with the people around me, the cautious and proud smile of the boss, and the excitement of wanting to beat myself up.This feeling of happiness is getting less and less.Russell said: "Diversity and polymorphism are the blessings of the world." Now the global summit is being held in South Africa. It is said that many people are protesting against global integration outside the venue. I think it is time to resist. At the end of 1999, when I was inspecting the market in Wuhan, I heard two customers in the store talking about Huang Feihong. One buddy said that "A Man Should Be Self-improvement" was very good, and the other buddy said that the song sung by the blind luthier in the second episode was also very good. Forced, but unfortunately he couldn't find the words.Hearing this made me feel sorry for him, but it was a pity that I didn't have time to chat up a few words at that time.Now paste that paragraph here, I hope those two buddies can see—— Wandering away, don't ask the cause I saw the afterglow of the half-mountain shining on a sad man The way to go is boundless and I can't help feeling sad The dust of the past made me cry Want to learn how to throw a pen and work hard But was mistaken by Confucian crown want to learn But surrounded by evil spirits What are you talking about? Look at the deep evening mist and the westerly wind is tight The wild geese flying south and north are afraid of hearing from the guests If you haven't reported your safety, ask yourself how you can bear it Empty tears and cold eyes I think I am incapable of affection and fraternity Today Yilou people are far away and the world is near Since then drifting and breaking How many deep alliances and secret agreements have no basis Speaking of Wuhan, one must mention a Wuhan native named Flyerzeng.This person is a piece of bamboo, and the name of the edition is "DVD Incomplete Handbook". I have to go there to worship almost every day. I never had the chance to meet Flyerzeng, but when I first stepped into the DVD world, I was on the phone with him a lot.To be honest, although he is knowledgeable and hardworking, I don't like him very much. It happens for a reason.I was on the phone with him one time, and he told me about the DeCSS editions of The Matrix and Saving Private Ryan that were being mail-ordered online.I said I already have it.He said, you don't know what a DVD is until you watch that. I didn't accept it at the time. Could it be that the DVDs I have accumulated are not DVDs? "They're all analog DVDs, they're all rubbish." Yi said with certainty, "Sooner or later you'll have to eliminate them all over again." I don't understand this kind of white horse and non-horse theory, and he is so authoritative, I can only murmur in my heart.It was all cursed by this kid. Later, I was shuffled again and again. The joys and sorrows of the experience must have been painful memories for many old disc fans. How can I not hold a grudge against such an executioner who put more than a thousand of my DVDs in the sidelines? In addition to frequent shuffling, I have also accumulated many versions of a movie on hand, like "Saving Private Ryan", from the early gun version, the analog version, to the ZDL version and the very confusing DLM version, and later The Pioneer Edition and the Quanmeiyuan Edition, I spent enough money to buy a genuine one. In desperation, I had no choice but to comfort myself: I have a collection of several milestones in the history of Chinese DVD piracy. Once, I made a joint purchase with Zhi'an (12), a scholar. Yi Baoli first memorized a bunch of hard-to-read disks and prepared to exchange them.I told him, in fact, there is no need to change some discs, just keep them as specimens, just to witness history. Zhi'an suddenly realized: "It should be kept. In the future, I can tell others that I have six versions of this movie alone - the version that cannot be read after 45 minutes, the version that stops at 52 minutes, and the version that stops at 60 minutes. There is a 16-minute crash version, a mosaic version of the whole film [Qi`shu`网`organized. Disc wind mighty Drinking and playing mahjong is about drinking and playing mahjong. Of course, buying discs should be about the same. How can the disc wind not be mighty?I think its main manifestation is that we treat video discs with a very unserious attitude, especially friends' video discs. I can understand people who are not interested in movies, even if he doesn't know who Spielberg is, it's okay Thinking of people.But I can't stand that kind of person: I heard from my friends that Spielberg is awesome, so I borrowed Spielberg from others to watch, and I didn't return it for a long time, and finally lost it.My friend felt distressed, and said with a playful smile, isn’t it just a DVD, and it’s not as expensive as a plate of shredded pork with Beijing sauce.People who do this are often your friends for more than ten years, so you can only hate yourself for making bad friends by mistake, and swear that you would rather sleep with the old sow than discuss the DVD issue with him. If there is a blizzard like the one in front of the prairie hero sisters, of course you don’t need to freeze your legs to protect the safety of the DVD, but if you walk in the rain with the DVD, please don’t let her get wet, Even if you get wet yourself. Dai Dahong of the former Henan Jianye Football Club is such a person.When he came to my house to watch the dishes, he had to wear plastic gloves like those used for eating Korean barbecue, for fear of dirtying the surface of the dishes.If he wants to lend me a disc, he will swear at least six times, and he will specially equip my DVD with a plastic bag with a thickness of only 0.000006mm. He said that even thicker plastic will scratch the disc surface due to its hardness. Dai Dahong is an eloquent person. He caused waves in Chinese football back then, and finally found that his eloquent eloquence did not solve any problems. A group of ridiculously stupid problems still did not become normal because of his nagging. The DVD database he made for himself is the most professional one I have ever seen. The title alone includes the original foreign name, Hong Kong translation, Taiwan translation, mainland translation, other translations, and how he thinks it should be translated. name. He once had a heated debate with a young man in a certain disc store in Zhengzhou.That person likes to return the discs he has seen to the disc dealer on the pretext that the disc player cannot read them. He tells them that it is not a disc player problem, but a character problem.The young man is also in a hurry, watching pirated copies and pursuing character, isn't that an exaggeration? Lao Dai suddenly became excited, like a sword that has been out of a box for many years, and launched a long discussion on the reasonable dispute of the piracy phenomenon. In the end, the young man almost became a little demon who was said to be dead by Tang Seng. In Lao Dai's eyes, cheating friends belongs to the Die Feng not mighty series, and cheating dish dealers also belong to the not mighty series.The latter I only partially agree with. Regarding the morality of piracy, it will never be clear.I went shopping with Zhu Deyong (13) once, and saw several bookstores, all of which were selling his pirated comic books. In a fit of rage, I went to Xinjiekou with me. Many foreigners purchase frantically as soon as they arrive in China. I think it’s not just the reason why oranges grown in Huaibei are oranges, but also because they have been exploited too hard by the lyric poets in the era of advanced capitalism. As I write this, I find that I have flaunted my intimate relationship with many celebrities, consciously or unconsciously.Next, brag about the celebrities I know in film and television. To be honest, people in the film and television industry are the least powerful group in Diefeng. Let me tell you about my little discovery. One, those actors like to brag about how many DVDs they have watched.One time when Angelina Jolie was mentioned, a female movie star said that she thought "The Pillow Trap" was very good-looking. I wondered how it was possible to release a DVD, but it had just been released in the United States.She nodded with certainty.I sympathetically told her not to watch that kind of gun version, which has a bad appetite, but she swore that it was not a gun version or watched it in France.I only looked at her more sympathetically. Second, those directors like to show that they don't watch those DVDs.I attended a review meeting, and after the meeting the director asked me how I felt.I said cheaply, a bit like "Life is Beautiful because of You" (14).He said arrogantly that he had never seen that movie, never, absolutely not.I looked at him with the same sympathy. Anyway, the rule of these celebrities watching DVDs is: if it is a DVD that you have not seen, he must say that he has seen it; never heard of that. I don't understand why these people who eat movies don't honestly watch a few DVDs?哪怕是进行一下业务学习。 中国电影，真是没救了。《男儿当自强》中陆皓东看着那些不干正事的中国人，沉痛地对黄飞鸿说。 智取DVD （15）中，爱德华·诺顿饰演的坏蛋独吞了哥几个的一大笔钱，然后就在豪宅中置办了等离子电视、大屏幕彩电等物件。后来正面人物找上门来，却讥讽人家没品位，就是有了钱也就会买这种“缺乏想象力”的东西。 这真是混蛋话。还是看看另一部电影吧：《One Night at McCools》。 这部片子我不知道该翻译成什么，台湾人译作《仲夏夜春梦》，香港人译作《放电冇罪》。放电美女由莉芙·泰勒饰演。 女孩有美丽的权利，也有做梦的权利。特别是一个做小梦的女孩，更是让人爱怜。王朔中的杜梅，跟方言结婚时把自己的细软全扛来了，也不过是做姑娘时织的茶几罩、水杯套之类的手艺活儿，却最让人温暖。你能感觉到一个女孩子真的是把自己攒了多少年的生活拿来跟你兵合一处将打一家了。 莉芙·泰勒便是这样一个出身贫贱的小女孩，她把杂志上的家居图片做成剪报本，没事儿就翻出来憧憬自己能有一个如图所示的家。理想的家是最重要的，男人不过是拥有这个家的必由之路，于是色诱、抢劫、杀人就成了顺理成章的事儿，也成了颇能让人原谅的事儿。 凭借对那些家居杂志的精细消化，泰勒姑娘知道一个理想的家必须要有一套家庭影院系统，而一个完备的家庭影院系统，怎么能没有DVD呢？ 片子的后半部分就是泰勒姑娘如何智取DVD的故事。DVD马上就沾上了一条人命，同居男友实在受不了泰勒姑娘对DVD的疯狂追逐，就请了迈克尔·道格拉斯演的江湖老杀手将其干掉。在美丽面前，老迈也同样歇菜，反而不怀恶意地邀请美女去他家坐会儿。 “你家里有家庭影院吗？”泰勒姑娘问，口气娇嫩得像个孩子。 “当然。”老迈骄傲地点头。 “有DVD吗？” “一个完备的家庭影院系统，怎么能没有DVD呢？”老迈显得对家庭影院的研究比杀人还在行。 泰勒姑娘哪儿能抵挡得住这个？马上跳上老迈的车去也。影片到这里也结束了。 在我的想象中，片尾字幕出现时的情节是这样的——一走进家门，老迈将泰勒姑娘拥入怀中急不可待地宽衣解带，而泰勒姑娘干的第一件事则是打开DVD放入碟片。杜比环绕音响的片头响起时，除了5.1个声道外，还多了一道男人的喘息声。老迈辛苦地趴在泰勒姑娘身上干活，而泰勒姑娘则腾出一只手拿着DVD遥控器，将画面切入活动菜单部分，眼中焕发出奇异的神采——人类的翻云覆雨活动就是这样各尽所能各取所需。 看到喜欢DVD的泰勒姑娘终于得到了自己梦想的DVD，我们这些同样喜欢DVD的人也可以含笑关掉DVD了。 别怪我这么饶舌，因为“DVD”是这部片子出现频率最高的词儿，真让我们这些DVD狂迷听着受用。如果你的英文水准像我一样面，你就只能听懂这三个字母了。 该片可以让我们得出如下两条结论：一，DVD在美国这个发达资本主义国家也属于高档货，另一方面也说明，我们的生活质量终于在某一方面跟他们站在同一起跑线上了；二，单纯拿DVD这一领域来说，我们非但不必在美国佬面前自卑羡慕，反而很可以自豪一把。不怕露富的话，我可以有把握地说，我家DVD碟片的藏量绝对不比比尔·盖茨寒酸。如果我有《开罗紫罗兰》（16）中进入电影世界的本事，就可以对泰勒姑娘说：“一个完备的家庭影院系统，怎么能没有3000张DVD呢？”相信最后抱得美人归的就是江湖人称见招拆招的洒家了。 但男人是没有做梦的权利的，一，我没有本事进入电影中去告诉泰勒姑娘一个完备的家庭影院系统应该是什么样子，二，人家迈克尔·道格拉斯是这部片子的投资人，这一点就注定泰勒姑娘最后要属于他。 唉，有江山的人才能有美人，没江山的人就只能拥有DVD了。 一位好友如今生活在加拿大，经过最近几次回国提篮采购，他也有了三四百张的藏碟量，结果在温哥华的某居民小区造成轰动，大家纷纷传诵：这里住着一个中国款哥，家里居然有那么那么多DVD，Oh My God。 可惜我不是没有生活在那里，要不得有多少加拿大美女谈虎色变（，我想敲“投怀送抱”，结果电脑出来了这个词儿）？就像嘉庆年间的才女钱绣芸，为了能读到“天一阁”的书，就要她的舅舅宁波知府丘铁卿作媒，嫁给了天一阁的主人。 近朱者赤，近碟者圆，如今，我的肚子真的变得圆滚滚。 几年前我当记者，经常出去参加堂会，人家一边往我手里塞红包一边对我说：“看您的样子就像个读书人。”夸得俺那叫一个舒坦。现如今，我要与一头素未谋面的人相约见面，只需对他说一声：“你找一个人，长得就跟卖盗版影碟的似的，那就是我。”那人就一认一个准儿。 俺怎么沦落成这样了呢？ 不是我不明白，这世界变化快。 盗版好不好？Of course it is good.但盗版太便宜，也不好。这样说显得我沾了便宜还卖乖，但确有一定道理。外国人买一张碟得咬半天牙，所以看得很仔细，可我们，得到一张碟太容易了，所以就开始不当回事儿起来。 就像电脑游戏，我们花几块钱就可以搞定许多游戏，所以玩起来都很浮躁。我在CM4（17）的玩家网站上经常看到动辄长达几万字的论文，甚至还有几万字的跟帖，但我们已经没有耐心和雅兴进行这么深入钻研了。这不是一件好事儿。 这么多年与盗版为伴，我的观影态度也发生了许多变化—— 一，不再有什么片子是非看不可的，让人兴奋得直想跪下的。 二，买碟变成了“只在乎曾经拥有，不在乎天长地久”的收藏行为。 三，往日那种从片头厂标到片尾字幕一眼看到底，连上厕所都舍不得的光景已经一去不复返。 四，只能在睡足了觉的周六上午，才能将一部片子完整啃下来。 五，开始用快进法看碟，特别是那些节奏缓慢的艺术片，用六倍快放来看，挺棒的。甚至怀念模拟时代不可消除的字幕，快进时也能看到。 六，借口公务缠身不再提篮采购，而由寂寞鬼全面代理，我家有什么碟他比我还清楚。 我的那些碟经过购买、拆封、装盒、再从盒中取出，如今被安置在几十个CD-BOX里，再整齐地码放在书橱中，冰冷而静穆。 只是到了夜深人静的时候，看着那排顶天立地的书架，想着里面那几千张DVD，才想起我这小小斗室之中，隐藏着多少迷人的身姿、动人的故事？ 悲欢离合总关情，一任碟机飞转到天明（18）。 Note: （1）影碟术语，即在影院用摄象机偷录银幕上的影象，再制成影碟的电影版本，由于与电影的公映日期基本同步，所以具有很大的时效性。 （2）引自奥登《葬礼蓝调》。 （3）马丁·史科西斯是该片的导演，影片的开始是玫瑰怒放的镜头。 （4）股市术语，类似足球比赛中的黄牌警告，要再不老实就红牌罚下。 （5）典出《彩霞满天》。 （6）一种声音处理系统。 （7）Linus Torvalds，著名的自由软件操作平台Linux的创始人。 （8）Bill Gates，微软公司主席和首席软件设计师，另一个身份是“世界首富”。 （9）昆汀·塔伦蒂诺是好莱坞导演，极其崇拜吴宇森电影中的暴力美学。 （10）《体坛周报》社长兼总编辑。 （11）出自《寂寞公路》。 （12）止庵，学者，著有多本随笔集及史学专著《史实与神话——庚子事变百年祭》等。 （13）朱德庸，台湾漫画家，有《双响炮》、《涩女郎》、《醋溜族》系列问世。 （14）Mr. Hollands Opus，美国影片，反映一个音乐教师春风化雨的动人事迹。 （15）The Italian Job，又译《天罗盗网》。 （16）The Purple Rose of Cairo，伍迪·艾伦导演。 （17）Championship Manager 4，《冠军足球经理4》，一款风靡全球的足球经营游戏。 （18）引自蒋捷《虞美人》，原词是：“少年听雨歌楼上，红烛昏罗帐。壮年听雨客舟中，江阔云低断雁叫西风。而今听雨僧庐下，鬓已星星也。悲欢离合总关情，一任阶前点滴到天明。”