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

Looks like we have lift off!!! ;-))

Zoo Digital Group PLC
16 December 2004


For immediate release 7.00 AM December 16th 2004

ZOO Digital Group plc
('ZOO' or 'the Company')

ZOO ANNOUNCES UPDATE

- European Expansion with new office in Paris -
- New License Partner for Police Training Software -
- Crowned overall winner at Sheffield Business Awards -

ZOO Digital Group plc ('ZOO'), the entertainment technology and games publishing
company, today announced that its subsidiary ZOOtech has opened an office in
Paris and appointed Stephan Aubert as Country Managing Director. Stephan was
previously Sales and Marketing Manager (EMEA) for Media 100 and will head up
business development and sales in France, Italy and Spain. The new office gives
ZOOtech the base to carry on expanding its portfolio of DVD-EXTRA applications
for the European markets.

Our North American activities continue to expand and in particular with regard
to Hollywood and its DVD production needs where a number of significant contract
negotiations are underway. As a result ZOOtech is seeking to expand its US
office based in San Francisco and headed by Gordon Doran, President ZOOtech Inc
and is actively recruiting 2 further senior business development and sales
personnel.

ZOOtech also announces its first contract for 'DVD-EXTRA Access Control'. Detail
Technologies, a producer of police promotion testing and training programmes has
licensed 'DVD-EXTRA Access Control' for its portfolio of products. 'DVD-EXTRA
Access Control' gives content producers unique opportunities to control whom,
how and when content is accessed on DVD-Video titles. Detail Technologies will
use ZOOtech's unique software in order to control unauthorised copying of its
training and examination products.

Finally the Company announced that ZOOtech has been crowned the overall winner
at the Sheffield Business Awards. ZOOtech walked away with the unique trophy and
the innovation award as a great example to others of how to establish, manage,
finance, develop and constantly improve a business.
Commenting on the news, Ian Stewart, CEO said,

'The progress made since the launch of DVD-EXTRA STUDIO in April has been very
exciting. Much focus has been given to the requirements of the North American
market, and the new employees will help maximise the potential of DVD-EXTRA
across a number of market segments in the US.

Stephan Aubert brings with him a wealth of experience having worked in
continental Europe for many years and gives us the opportunity to open the very
creative French market from the Paris office.

We are particularly encouraged by our first contract for the Access Control
product as this emphasises our wider patent portfolio which we are looking to
capitalize on.'

- ends -

For further information please contact:

Ian Stewart, CEO
ZOO Digital Group plc
0114 241 3700

James Chandler/Grace Marriner
Beattie Financial
020 7398 3300

For such a small company to open a brand new office, I think this is exceptionally good news for ZOO and I look forward to seeing further progress very soon - xmas sales.

skids

over the last year the staff has doubled from 60 to over 120

akel44,

Its all encouraging as far as I'm concerned, and I think the DVD authoring suite will be a big earner for multimedia and film production. They may make some money on DVD style games, but I doubt it. The money should flow from other areas IMO. Next results should be interesting.

skids
Marques-Bros Racing

anyone any ideas what 2005 holds for zoo?

No
If i did I would be a "Profit"
Fair to middling i predict;)
Or a complete f**k up

skids,

you must remember zoo were sending out glowing reports for 2003,
about profits,but when the finals came along,no such thing happened,
so maybe this time,it might come true as they seem in a stronger position,
last year they partly blamed it on delays,(premier manager etc),this year they could blame it on the purchase of hothouse,but all in all 2005 will be the
turning point one way or the other,zoo has never made a profit since its been in business,so if it happens this year,they could well be on there way to the price it was in 2000 (74p), i hope so

I've just tried buying a copy of who wants to be a millionaire and every shop has sold out which must be a good thing for zoo!
According to various retailers it has been a must have item this xmas.
Fingers crossed for some good results soon.

Sold out! They probably only distributed a 1000 copies!

does anyone know when the results are due for ZOO?

cheers,
skids

skids

they were put back to march-april (3 months)so the next interims will include a 6 month period plus a 3 month update

Many thanks akel44.

Why were they put back?

queen

there interims were 5 days ealier than this statement, which i will paste

For immediate release 28 September 2004



ZOO Digital Group PLC ('the Company' or 'ZOO Digital')


Change of Accounting Reference Date


ZOO Digital announces that it is to change its accounting reference date from 31
December to 31 March with immediate effect.

The Directors believe that a March year-end is more suitable for a company
operating in its sector and follows the restructuring of the Company into two
defined business units, ZOOtech Ltd and ZOO Digital Publishing Ltd, earlier in
the year.

The next Annual Report will cover the 15 month trading period to 31 March 2005.
When ZOO Digital reports for the 15 month period to 31 March 2005, the Company
will also publish pro forma results for the 12 month period to 31 December 2004
together with comparatives.

Thanks akel44.

anyone no the reason for todays rise?

No reason just a few buyers

This really is treading water at the moment in a slowly sinking kind of way. Keep expecting the next big news but keep getting disappointed. Really don't want to walk away but thinking about it...

queen

heres a little bit of news to cheer you up,

http://www.gamesasylum.com/showarticle.php?articleID=3653

http://xbox.ign.com/articles/580/580822p1.html

Many thanks akel44.