is there any body who could share his views about long term future of forbidden technology.i am holder from tech buble times and still hope best is yet to come for FBT

i think we are at the bottom price noew for this cycle.there is surely some serious money to be made in commimg month and if we get one good contract which i believe we are in negotiation at the moment this share could fly beyond our imagination. i still have faith in this company and will surely give it atleast one more year.

Very difficult to spot a share at the bottom of a cycle or anything else.

A share price can alwasy go lower!

there has been some poitive movement today.any body sitting on any information

Would expect it is a build up to the conference next month

FBT moves up briefly and then drops back lower than where it started about once a month. Sometimes it is a rumour or just the MMs playing games.

In June it moved up by a larger pence value and % than today and in a few days was lower than is started.

Every time punters get excited and lose a bit more money. I suspect that the MMs move it up to encourage buying and then back down again to its more realistic level.

The IBC conference in September has over 1,000 exhibitors and is a broadcasting conference and exhibition. FBT are in a small side hall at the exhibition and will be a small sideshow. Have you ever been to the Ideal Home Exhibition and seen the stands where some guy is demonstarting a wonder mop.

blue again today!!!

Yes. It often is up for a couple of daya before it drops again. It has that saw tooth pattern you get with a lot of falling stocks.

Look what it did in June and May and March and February.

http://news.independent.co.uk/business/analysis_and_features/story.jsp?story=546697


THE NEW THREAT - VIDEO OVER BROADBAND?

Cable television was always seen as the main threat to BSkyB's dominance of the digital television market. The so-called "triple play" - bundling telephone, broadband and television services together - was supposed to be enough to draw consumers to cable rather than satellite.

But it didn't happen. The two main UK cable companies, NTL and Telewest, ran out of money. Growth in cable television subscribers was reduced to a trickle.

However, the emergence of new technology could shake up the market. Video over broadband will allow people to watch programmes over an internet connection. BT and Wanadoo, which is owned by France Telecom, are planning launches next year. And NTL and Telewest are said to be working on similar proposals.

In the long term, this promises to change television viewing and could force BSkyB into a strategy rethink.

BT and Wanadoo maintain their planned services won't rival Sky's. "If you have a Sky box, then you will want our offering as well - not instead of," insists Pierre Danon, chief executive of BT Retail. Privately Wanadoo, which is headed in the UK by Eric Abensur, spins a similar line.

To make their video over broadband services a success, both companies need BSkyB's content, and not just its home- grown programmes. Trevor Brignall, business development director at Cap Gemini, says: "BSkyB has a lot of buying power and is well connected with the film studios. There is now a real opportunity for Sky to act as a wholesaler."

Video over broadband has advantages over satellite. Programmes can be watched on-demand, with more interactivity between the viewer and, importantly, the advertiser. Rebecca Jennings, senior analyst at Forrester Research, says advertisers may be prepared to pay a premium of up to 15 per cent for an interactive advert.

If BSkyB judges that this technology could one day become mass market, it will have to develop its own broadband plans. Speculation is rife over its next move. Adam Daum, chief analyst at technology research company Gartner, says: "I suspect BSkyB will sit back and watch other companies lose a lot of money. It will then magically announce a deal with BT for video over broadband."

http://news.independent.co.uk/business/analysis_and_features/story.jsp?story=546697

more volume post 4.30 pm and all buys.
are mm,s short of stock or is there a big buyer about?

Digital TV over cable or broadband is usually encoded as the mpeg standard. and has no bearing on FBT.

FBT's system cannot be resized up to that required for TV and the quality would not be good enough.

Exhibition
Forbidden Technologies will be exhibiting at IBC2004, 10th-14th September. Our stand number will be 2.110

Only 1 month away from the IBC, would expect stock price to start rising in the build up and then continue to rise as the conference news leaks out, as per last year, whether the price stays stable after that is anyone's guess.

All IMHO of course, as said before I dove into this at 24pence, so in profit already, but expecting about 50 pence by mid September

Here is what happened last year in September, If Haystack is correct then it may not happen again, but I believe it will, as the technology is alot better than last year and keeps inproving, just check out their website, and you will see that alot more companies are starting to show an interest

Why would prices rise just beacuse a company exhibits at an exhibition?

But don't forget it fell almost continuously after that.

FBT still have almost no customers. Their turnover is a tiny 40,000 per year. Almost no one in the world is using Java based video streaming. There is a world standard and it is Mpeg-4 which all the large users are committed to.

In fact the situation is so bad for FBT and similar companies that it is not possible to name even one large user of streaming video who is using Java based systems.

I doubt very much that last year's conference had anything to do with the share price rise. Company's share prices do not normally rise when they go to conferences. This is even more apt for FBT as nothing came out of the conference that was beneficial to them.

It looks more like the price rose as the results were due at the end of September. There were rumours (false of course) that their turnover was going to be good. The results did come out and they were just as bad as usual except the cash burn had increased and the losses were higher. Once the results had been seen the price plunged and has continued to do so for 11 months now.

Haystack - So you don't think the price will rise in September?

You are always so quick to respond on anything about FBT, Why is that?

The price may rise towards results, it does soemtimes. It ALWAYS falls after though every time. The results are ALWAYS poor.

I see that FBT is down this morning. Isn't that contratry to the rise before conference theory.

Not really as there were NO sells only buys!!!
I predict a rise just before the conference and during