DVD EXTRA, the technology that should see this company through to profits and a very bright future.
DVD-Extra

During the year the Group accelerated its development of a revolutionary
authoring software for producing interactive DVD-Video discs that will play on
any standard consumer DVD player. We applied for and received a SMART grant
award of 188,000 from the Department of Trade and Industry to assist with the
research and development. DVD-Extra unlocks the hidden interactive capabilities
that exist in every player, and allows developers to produce titles that exhibit
many of the properties of multimedia CD-ROM on a standard, unmodified, DVD
player.

ZOO's principal offering is a product for authoring interactive DVD-Video discs
called DVD-Extra Studio. This tool operates in a similar way to multimedia
authoring products that are designed for creating CD-ROM applications for PC and
Macintosh, but produces DVD-Video disc images as its output. It performs a
similar function to so-called DVD authoring products that are designed
specifically for creating DVD-Video discs, but due to the patent-pending
authoring method it employs, it offers substantial cost savings for companies
that are involved in the production of DVDs and also enables more sophisticated
functionality to be developed.

ZOO will license DVD-Extra Studio to multimedia developers and Compression and
Authoring facilities. Charges will be levied on a pay-per-use basis, such that
customers will pay a fee to ZOO for each project that uses DVD-Extra Studio.

The Group has applied for patents to protect the core DVD-Extra technology and
is continuing to further develop and protect its intellectual property
worldwide.

Outlook

Following the successful fundraising of 1.5m gross through the share placing
which was completed on 2nd June 2003 the Group looks forward to positive
progression. The portfolio of products is expanding, with a focus on the
development of our own intellectual properties. The board believes that the
combination of publishing low risk licensed product and in-house own brands
together with the huge potential of DVD-Extra Studio places the Group in an
excellent position for a move to profitability and significant future growth.

The Group plans to exploit the DVD-Extra technology internationally and has
established an Early Adopter Programme consisting of around twenty companies
including Technicolor, Warner and Comchoice, leading to the first commercial
release of the product within twelve months. We believe that the uniqueness of
DVD-Extra and the filing of international patents will allow ZOO to build and
maintain significant differentiation over other authoring tool providers.

John Barnes, Chairman

Ian Stewart, Chief Executive Officer.G

zoos theory of dvd-extra=z=mc2 coupled whith the quantam theory and trace amounts of the x factor,hope none of this leads to a chaos theory (oh dear what idone)

zoos theory of dvd-extra=z=mc2 coupled whith the quantam theory and trace amounts of the x factor,hope none of this leads to a chaos theory (oh dear what idone)

Up she goes again. Looking very interesting now.

This upward trend should now continue as zoo r about to break into profits.
got a good few grand locked in this one. Just sit back and enjoy the ride...

more news for the portfolio, ZOO Digital publishing has acquired the Xbox, Playstation2, and PC publishing rights to Blowout. The game will be released on all three formats on 26th November. Blowout is a worthy addition to any shoot‘em-up fan’s collection, the game drops the player in at the deep end against swarms of alien nasties.

Any idea what kind of a share price we're looking at by the end of the new year..

That's a crystal ball kind of question!!!
All joking apart 50p is fair value if all the hype is to be believed,but if the company slips up in anyway so will the share price.

i cant see it with all the companies taking an interest in dvd extra the alliance will want to make money with there promotion too.

Guilty Gear X2 Reload Release Date
Guilty Gear is getting ready for it's launch next Friday 19th November 2004 on Xbox with a string of excellent review scores and comments. The game has scored 90% in Play magazine and 8.4/10 in the official Xbox magazine who commented "Stunning visuals, astoundingly deep combat system and brilliant multiplayer".

In addition to akel44's comment, Dixons has announced that it is to stop selling video recorders. What could you expect fron DVD sales?

There's a news item for Zoo that I can't read. Can someone post it on this thread please?

There you go Walktall.

skids


Zoo Digital Group PLC
22 November 2004


ZOO Digital Group PLC ('the Company')

Exercise of Options

ZOO Digital Group plc announces that on 16 November 2004 it approved the issue
and allotment of 125,000 new ordinary shares in the capital of the Company
following an exercise of 125,000 share options under the Enterprise Management
Incentive Scheme at an exercise price of 2.75p per share.

These shares will rank pari passu with all existing ordinary shares.
Application has been made for admission of the new ordinary shares to trading on
the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange and dealings are
expected to commence on 24 November 2004.

The ordinary shares referred to above are ordinary shares of 0.2 pence per
share. The number of shares in issue following admission is 279,582,830.

Thanks skids.

WT

A bit of sell off today. any views?

I think the sell offs today were just a few profit takers,nothing to worry about,this share will go sky high,the product is fantastic and the support from surronding companies is good.Sit back and enjoy the ride, 50p is not out of the question in the early part of next year.Just my opinion but i may have fallen for this stock in a big way,a dangerous pastime i know!!!!

With the company about to break into profits, the price should be skyward from there... possibly a 2005 wonder stock!!!
Dixons are now in the process of getting rid of all their VHS recorders because the demand for DVD players has gone sky high!!!

on the news it said in a fews years time something might well be taking over from dvds,do you think zoo will have made its money by then,and will it take up the new challenge?

Over the last few days the sells have been higher than the buyers but the price has stayed the same. Are we to see a big buy coming soon - lets hope so.

The sellers were most likely traders who bought their shares at a slightly lower price a good few months back and they've just been waiting to get out!!!

I agree but what is strange is that after all the sells the bid price has not fallen suggesting some one is looking to buy the shares.