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　　If you watch TV seriously every day, you will discover many things like me. For example, one fact: Chinese people's entertainment today has been completely digitized. Let's not talk about the old Xuecun and so on. How many episodes did "Drawing Sword", one of the top ten TV series last year, have? 36 episodes? Then you must have watched the online version. The TV stations don't have this complete version. Who was the popular idol last year? The most popular ones were Super Girl and Sister Furong. Let's not talk about Sister Furong, she was a 100% online star-making movement that became famous overnight; then what did Li Yuchun rely on? First, it was a collective carnival of text messages by all the people, and then it was Baidu Tieba and Sina UC chat, with tens of millions of posts and 400,000 people chatting online. Without the Internet, such a super idol would not have appeared.
　　This year is even more obvious: first there was Hu Ge, who took advantage of the momentum of "The Promise" to play a spoof video and became so popular that the old lady upstairs knew about it; then there were "Prison Break" and "Lost" from online to offline, sweeping the compact disc market; why is "Wulin Wai Zhuan" so popular? Because the screenwriter is the online writer Ning Caishen.
　　Look around: What do fashionable men and women wear around their necks? MP3. What do they play when they go home? XBOX 360. What do they take out? A card camera. All TV programs are included, even Animal World, which must be accompanied by text messages, leaving an email and website at the end. Therefore, we need to select new idols of digital entertainment every year - those digital products that create entertainment stars, count the surprises they bring us, and see the new entertainment trends they represent.

　　- This is how we select

　　. This 2006 "Entertainment Star" selection is the fifth in history. The selection awards are launched by the editorial department of "Digital Times". The selection items are divided according to product lines, and each product line is divided into two parts: one is brand selection, and the other is product selection.
　　Brand selection is selected by readers' voting. There are two ways: online and offline. Sohu Digital World (digi.sohu.com) started a large-scale online survey in May. The offline survey includes campus questionnaires in six major regions across the country, on-site questionnaires in major electronic stores in Beijing, and questionnaires published in Digital Times.
　　The product selection is conducted by senior editors of the Digital Times editorial department based on the products launched by manufacturers in the past six months, after evaluation and experience, and discussion and selection.

　　- Background and description

　　The first Entertainment Star (then Hardware Star) was held in 2002.
　　In the second Hardware Star selection, we put forward a slogan: I evaluate, you choose. The statement of "no evaluation, no right to speak" has been unanimously recognized by readers. This year, we still continue this rigorous approach. Almost all the selected products have been personally experienced and evaluated by editors (in the past six months, we have conducted a large-scale horizontal evaluation almost every two issues, and the machines sent for this evaluation have kept our editors busy).
　　Starting from the third Hardware Star selection, we renamed the selection to "Entertainment Star", hoping to reflect the attention of Digital Times to digital entertainment.
　　The selection usually starts in the spring of each year, and the final survey results are obtained through brand surveys on campus, on-site surveys in Beijing's five major supermarkets, and questionnaires on this newspaper and its partner websites. This year, we received more than 30,000 valid votes.

　　- Award Description

　　The brand selection is divided into: Readers' Choice and Excellent Brand Selection.
　　Readers' Choice: The brand with the highest votes in this large-scale survey of this product line.
　　Excellent Brand: Based on the survey votes, when the difference in the number of votes between the second and third brands in some product lines is not large, the selection committee will discuss based on the comprehensive performance of the manufacturer in the past six months, and in accordance with the principle of rigor and fairness, award one of the more excellent brands or two brands to the award together.
　　The product selection is divided into: Editor's Recommendation Award, Best Value Award, and Best Creativity Award.
　　Editor's Recommendation: The best product in this product line, with outstanding indicators.
　　Best Value: The product with the highest cost-effectiveness in this product line.
　　Best Creativity: The product with the most technological innovation in this product line. It is not just electronic technology, but also includes design innovations in appearance, structure, and craftsmanship.

Source: China Computer News