What Kind of Black Tech is This?
Chapter 42

Turnaround

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After the short animation ended, came a detailed introduction to the Phantom Projector Super Edition, much like the product videos on Taobao.

The Phantom Projector Super Edition rotated on screen as footage showed its projected image, while captions described its specifications.

"The Phantom Projector Super Edition features 16K ultra-high-definition picture quality.

The world's first mass-produced 16K projector, with a response time of 0.5 milliseconds and a refresh rate of 300 hertz...

In terms of performance alone, it's twice as powerful across the board as the 8K Phantom Projector.

On top of its powerful performance, it also comes with Shenma Technology Company's latest TV system, Phantom TV System 2.0.

Are you frustrated that 8K videos are so hard to find? Worried that your computer can't power an 8K display? Graphics card prices are soaring, and supplies can't keep up with demand. Computers capable of running 8K displays start at ten or twenty thousand yuan.

Because of the scarcity of 8K content and the limitations of your computer, are you only using your Phantom Projector as a 4K display?

Phantom TV System 2.0 features AI image enhancement technology that can bring the picture quality of 8K games and movies up to 16K, 4K content up to 8K, and 2K content up to 4K!

The Phantom Projector Super Edition will go on sale at noon today. You can buy it from Shenma Technology Company's flagship stores on Taobao and JD.com. The first batch is limited to five thousand units, priced at 9,999 yuan.

Additionally, users who previously purchased a Phantom Projector Generation 2 or Youth Edition can update their TV system to Phantom TV System 2.0.

That concludes our introduction to Shenma Technology Company's new product. We'd also like to announce some news.

Shenma Technology Company has reached an agreement with five domestic home appliance companies in Daxia Country—Changhong, Haier, TCL, Skyworth, and Hisense Company. Shenma Technology Company will provide key components and work with the five companies to produce Phantom Projectors. As production lines are being upgraded, sales of the Phantom Projector will be temporarily suspended for about ten days.

Consumers looking to buy a Phantom Projector, please be patient. Production will soon increase substantially, and genuine Phantom Projectors will be available from the authorized retailers of several major home appliance brands. The warranty policy will also be extended to those companies.

As for the Phantom Projector Super Edition, seeing is believing. No matter how many performance specifications are posted online or how impressive the video footage looks, they can't truly show just how powerful it is.

Shenma Technology Company has already partnered with the five major companies. Soon, you'll be able to experience the power of the Phantom Projector Super Edition at their stores across the country!

Seeing is believing!

At the end of the video, Samsung Company was tagged once again.

"Can you withstand this strike of my sword?!

"From this day on, I'm giving Samsung Company one month to come up with a product that can match the Phantom Projector Super Edition.

"You Samsung Company claim that we stole your laboratory's technical achievements. Well, here's the product. If the technology I supposedly stole was enough to make something like this, then you have no excuse for failing to make something even better!

"I, Shenma Technology Company, will say this plainly: if you can make a product better than the Phantom Projector Super Edition, we'll apologize to your company and compensate you. We'll even transfer the entire Shenma Technology Company to you unconditionally!

"If you can't, I don't want your company. I only want your chairman to step forward and apologize publicly: 'South Korea's Samsung Group is a company of thieves!'

"If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear. Pure gold can withstand the fire!

"My sword is right here. Samsung Company, come and face your death!"

The video announcing Shenma Technology Company's new product, the Phantom Projector Super Edition, quickly spread across the internet.

Shenma Technology Company taking on Samsung Company head-on made for explosive news, and the new product's impressive performance only added to the buzz.

With the joint efforts of the five companies' public relations departments, the news soon topped Weibo's trending list and the headlines of major video news websites, drawing the attention of countless netizens.

Comments came pouring in across Weibo and other platforms. These weren't paid shills, but genuine users and consumers!

Shenma Technology Company had already sold hundreds of thousands of Phantom Projectors. Their powerful performance had won the products plenty of fans. When Samsung Company came on strong, most fans had simply waited to see how things played out.

Now Shenma Technology Company had stepped forward to take on Samsung Group, and people were naturally speaking up in its defense and cheering it on.

"I have a sword that can slay a demon god—and Samsung Company is that monstrous demon god! This has me fired up! I support Shenma Technology Company. We have several Phantom Projectors at home, and they've worked wonderfully. There's none of the quality problems people have been talking about online these past few days!"

"Samsung can go to hell with this bullshit. They make such grand claims about stolen laboratory research and how Shenma Technology Company supposedly caused them serious losses. And that patent is especially ridiculous!

"They only registered the patent two days ago, yet they're suing Shenma Technology Company over products that have been on sale for months!

"Hilarious. Invention patents last 20 years, while utility model and design patents last 10 years, all counted from the filing date!"

"Great news! I won't have to hunt everywhere for content anymore, haha! Once you've watched an 8K movie, you can never go back to the 4K era! You have no idea how much I searched the entire internet for 8K movies and barely found any. Now I only need to find 4K content! There's hardly any 8K content, but the internet has plenty of 4K!"

"Damn, Shenma Technology Company is awesome. They quietly made huge news! The world's first mass-produced 16K projector. Samsung Company absolutely couldn't have made this!"

"This whole Samsung Company affair is suspicious. Shenma Technology Company got hold of a few technical documents and suddenly they could make a product?

"Documents are one thing, products are another. There's a long way to go from technical documents to a finished product. Even an ordinary person who got their hands on nuclear fusion research would find it almost impossible to build anything.

"Besides, if Samsung Company's laboratory had developed the technology, then with their R&D team and the experience of succeeding once, they should be able to do it again in a short time—even without the documents. They've done it before, so the second time should be much easier."

"I just updated to Phantom TV System 2.0 and tried it out. Nothing to complain about—it's worthy of Shenma Technology Company. Similar technology exists online, but it absolutely can't match the performance of Shenma Technology's Phantom TV System. Real 2K becomes 4K, 4K becomes 8K, and 8K becomes 16K!!!"

"Before this technical-document theft dispute between Samsung Company and Shenma Technology Company, the Phantom Projector had an excellent reputation. The internet was full of praise. Were all those people Shenma Technology Company's paid shills? Impossible! And the hundreds of thousands of sales online were all fake orders? That's hilarious!"

"Has anyone noticed that most of the users leaving comments to trash the Phantom Projector in those posts these past few days are new accounts? They're trashing it all over the internet, posting dozens or even hundreds of comments a day against Shenma Technology Company! Is that something an ordinary user can do? They're obviously professional paid shills!"

"I was already firmly on Shenma Technology Company's side. But all the fake news flooding the internet these past two days made me so angry that I started replying to people. Then everyone called me a Shenma Technology Company shill. It almost had me believing them!"

"Samsung Company, Samsung Company, say something! Hurry up and show us a product that can beat the Phantom Projector Super Edition!"

"I said it before: South Korea's Samsung—same old tricks! They claim everything belongs to them!"

"Um, just quietly asking those who updated to Phantom TV System 2.0: have you watched Japanese adult films? Does the AI image enhancement technology make them especially exciting!? I'm tempted. I want to buy one!"

"I'll always support Shenma Technology Company. We have two Phantom Projector Generation 2 units at home. I just updated them to Phantom TV System 2.0 and tried it out. My god, it's invincible!"

"Waaah, I can finally stop using an 8K projector to watch 4K movies and shows! Shenma Technology Company has come up with another piece of black technology: AI image enhancement! It's incredible! I can play Cyberpunk 2077 smoothly on a two-hundred-inch screen!"

"Why is the Phantom Projector Super Edition limited to just five thousand units? I wonder if I'll manage to get one."

"I've got a scoop. I infiltrated an online shill group. For the past two days, they've been paying two yuan for every comment trashing Shenma Technology Company. The shills have gone crazy, posting everywhere to earn money by attacking the company!"

"Upstairs, I knew it! How else could so many people suddenly start trashing Shenma Technology Company? So they're all paid shills!"

"I lurked and followed the drama for two days. Here's my general summary of what happened.

"The technology belongs to Shenma Technology Company. Samsung Company used its vast manpower and resources to reverse-engineer it, then registered patents for it. After that, it even tried to make up an excuse to extort money from Shenma Technology Company. That's my personal take. If you disagree, keep it to yourself!"

(The struggling author shamelessly begs for votes!)

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