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

Transco,

I agree with regard to the options, but I think most of the hype disappeared post the spike last year. ZOO seem to be now intent on building a solid, stable business base from which they will hopefully expand. Certainly the issue of failing to meet deadlines last xmas, (resulting in loss of sales), seems to have been addressed, (have a look at the ZOO website). I am still showing a loss on my investment, but the trend is now steadily up and hopefully it won't be too long before I am in profit. Personally, although spikes are good for the short termers, I would much prefer see a solid company with good growth potential, than a flash to bang, followed by implosion. I am looking forward to the results in due course, I believe they will show a significant improvement. And probably more good news to come.
AIMHO, DYOR etc etc.

regards

PTH

potholden,

All good points - time will tell.

Transco

Two heads are usually better than one - and in this case, it's 15. DVD technology and games publishing company Zoo Digital saw an uplift in its share price after it announced an alliance that should lead to development cost savings. It announced the launch of the DVD-EXTRA Developer Alliance, a worldwide network of development studios trained in using DVD-EXTRA STUDIO. The product is a system that allow DVD authors and multimedia developers to create complex and interactive DVDs easily and cost effectively. The 15 original members of the DVD-EXTRA Developer Alliance have all mastered DVD-EXTRA STUDIO and will deliver these development services globally from studios in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, France and the Benelux, it said. The shares added 1p to 13p.

Good trading this morning looks like we are set to roll, even though we have had more than 30% since the beginning of Sept. Still feel that there is so much more to come.

Yes Artey these are deffinately on the roll. Moving up nicely but will it break the resistance and hold, as history has shown it keeps slipping back to 11-12 but at least we are into the new highs. Yippeee

yes azhar know what you mean, but this time it seems that we have been building upon this share price for quite some time. Now with profitability within touching distance, you just have to feel that now is the time. There is so much good news looming.

600,000 between brokers.

i agree with you both,i think xmas and onward to 2005 will bring joy for zoo by the way azhar your srs tech is also on the move just like i said

Yes Certainly SRS Tech moving in the right direction for change. I was getting worried recently as there were nothing but sells, luckily the price was stable which gave me some relief and I felt somebody was mopping up the shares.

A good solid start to the day, and more publishing rights aquired.

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/psi-ops-the-mindgate-conspiracy/562840p1.html

A further tick up, wait until we get some real news!

nearly 11% up today, this has been threatening to do this for so long.

Zoo Hoo blimey I expected upward trend but this has beaten my expectation.

Is there anymore news to follow, or are we just waiting for the x-mas sells to increase the share price???

Does anyone have any comments???

One important piece of news will be profitability by the end of the "Old" Financial Year, these figures will still be published. That will be followed by the "New" end of Financial Year, March figures which will show the impact of the Christmas sales.

In between all that you will have the impact of the new releases of WWTBAM, globally and Guiness World Records on dvd. Add to that the probability of dvd-extra Disney announcement.

Interesting times ahead Artey

Well the share price has dropped back to yesterdays price. What move it up this morning in the first place???

Moving up nicely, I just love this company. So many games guys have a go but I dont have a clue, I just look at the balance sheet and I know its doing well.

cheers GF.

Whrn are we going to see an upward trend which is going to last, does anyone have any opinions????

zoo-tech are in new york on the 8th-9th november, go to www.zoo-tech.com