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

You have to realise that what yu have posted is slanted somewhat by FBT's view of their own products. There is little indication that there is any need or desire for collaborative editing of video over the internet. Why would people want to collaboratively edit video in different parts of the world. Even if there were a few, is this the basis of a money making business. How many unusual people like that would be required to make a profit. The business model looks seriously flawed.

Collaborative editing is possible now and has been for a long time as a networked system of PCs using Avid or one ogf the many other editing systems produces the same effect. Editing packages like Avid are industry standards and there is a general pool of trained people available to use them. How many companies are going to swithch their operations from something tnat they have invested large sums of monoey in, to a new system that depends on the internet.

There was some amusing talk of targetting the home internet users for video editing so they could have their very own streaming video on their web sites. That is one of the funnier ideas that has come out of FBT in a while.

haystack tell me honestly. Are you shorting fbt?????
if yes please feel free to deramp this share. Otherwise please keep your comments to yourselfand concentrate on companies you are involved with.

I post on FBT for my own reasons. It is a stock that I have been following since they originally floated.

It has been as high as 250p whcih gave it a market cap of about 200m plus. This is not bad for a company with less than 3m in cash and almost no customers, makes a bigger loss each year, has a turnover of 40,000 a year, has an increasing cash burn.

I like posting on it.

would it not be fair if you explained "your own reasons" pls

I, for one, particularly enjoyed the statement We even accept Microsoft's non-standard Windows Media Player format.

I expect Microsoft are truly grateful for this magnanimous concession from the mighty FBT. And what would Microsoft do if FBT had not been gracious enough to accept their non-standard format? Would the Rockies have crumbled? Seattle sheared off the Pacific North-West Coast into the Pacific? The Redmond campus imploded in an all-consuming ball of fire?

Somehow I think not.

I asked an American television producer friend recently (who uses AVID and all that stuff) what he thought of FBT. He replied "who?"

Thankfully, I have no position in FBT.

LOL!

who are you people and why are you aginst this company

basharat, you started the thread asking for views and you got them, some quite detailed. You've got some pretty experienced investors here giving you the benefit of their opinion. You should think carefully about the negative views as well as the positive ones. It is no accident that your own posts contained the words "hope" and "faith". Unfortunately these are nothing to do with making money. If after having considered and understood the positive and negative business and technical arguments you are still convinced (not hope) that the company has a brilliant future, then this is the company for you and there is no need to worry about negative opinions. You will win eventually. If instead deep down you are afraid of the negative arguments because they sound convincing, then it is time to reconsider.

thanx guys

blue again today, my buy at 23 pence looks to have been a good one, against the opinions of a few people on this thread, still expecting a good rise when we get closer to the IBC

BREAKING NEWS
Archive

Fri 13th Aug, 2004
Recent press
160 characters reports: "Mobile users can for the first time send and receive video and a branded player by Bluetooth ... Forbidden has packaged its advanced compression and white labelled mobile player technology into one commercial tool to deliver mobile video via Bluetooth to today's range of ... 2.5G mobile phones".


This looks like good news for me, and I personally feel this is the way the company should go, mobile phones now have digital cameras and everyone has one over here, if FBT can stream video onto mobile phones there will be a massive market for them over in Asia, as well as in Europe once the mobile technology catches up

All IMHO

Tokyo

Of course FBT can stream video to mobiles as can all the other Java based video streaming companies (and there are loads of them). The interesting thing is that none of them make any money.

One of the problems is that almost all the content for streaming is owned by companies that do not use Java based streaming. They use Mpeg-4 based systems such as Windows Media, Real and Quicktime. They do this because Mpeg-4 is a world standard in the same way as Mpeg-2 is for digital TV like SKY and Mpeg-3 is a standard for music (mp3).

With Mpeg-4 you get a fuller range of features and better quaklity than Java based streaming. You can resize the viewing area which you cannot do with FBT's system.

That being the case and the content owners are already committed to streaming on the internet using Mpeg-4 then why would they not want to use it for mobile devices. They are not going to want to pay twice and set up two different systems.

It is all about interoperability.

Here are a couple of companies that are further advanced than FBT in the area of mobile streaming.

http://www.oplayo.com/demos/Mobile/

http://www.streamingwizard.com/

http://www.3g.co.uk/PR/August2004/8188.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2953655.stm

http://www.boldendeavours.com/examples.htm

http://www.links2mobile.com/GetArticle.asp?nid=1320&catid=10&ncat=Latest+Industry+News

haystack i admire your disintrest in FBT. May be you have holding in emlaze or even motion media.

Don't start Haystack on MMD . . . :)

I wouldn't buy MMD at any price. I have sold my Emblaze some time ago, luckily at a much higher price.

I told you not to start him on MMD . . .

Actually, don't start me on MMD, either.

this is intresting
so what about MMD ssssssssssssssss

MMD is a long story and one that I fear will end badly. It is now called Scotty and its epic code is SCO (reverse takeover of an Austrian company called Scotty).

still ticking up