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

It has been on the way down the last few days. Today's rise was mainly the MMs gapping it up at the start and very low actual volume. The results are pretty poor with very low turnover and the share price is now 15 times net assets. Thos should be down again very soon.

I think Haystack is playing CFD's for FBT to go down, but I think FBT is on the uptrend with its increasing clients and newly launched softwares

Where are the increasing clients? FBT has been on the stock market for almost 5 years and still has a minute turnover and makes a substantial loss.

hlyeo98: well, if you're right, Haystack will get a bloody nose. If you're wrong, he will be happy and have made some money out of a correct prediction.

Of course, he could be doing nothing other than observing and commenting, and there may be no plot at all. Which would be much less fun, of course.

haystack why dont you back off pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

You do seem to be upset by negative comments on FBT. Would you like this thread to be just a fan club where people just oozed with affection for FBT.

FBT looks cheap at its current price.

Or very expensive, if you have an alternative view. It has at least fallen today. The net assets are worth less than 3p a share and it has a tiny turnover.

Could FBT become the new Tadpole for bb ramps?

now i started to agree with haystack
this company is very expensive at this price but it is intresting and worth a punt @5p level

In Shares Magazine, FBT is regarded as a sleeping beauty, its price will soon soar.

This is one sleeping beauty that may turn out to be an ugly sister.

bt is agin considering tv over internet.they had some testing before with bt and may be things are going to meterialise which we all been hoping for.

One thing that is for sure and that is that it won't be FBT that BT uses. Their compression and playback can't cope with the picture size and quality that is necessary for TV.

All discussions about TV over broadband contain references to the mpeg-2 and mpeg-4 standards. SKY for instance use mpeg-4 currently and a number of companies are planning to broadcast using mpeg-4.

I tried looking at FBT's stuff, but all I get is 'Applet Crashed' in a rather tiny window. Perhaps they're another of these outfits that only work with Microsoft IE. I was using Opera (which seems to work with everything else).

On edit: having had to reboot (machine froze) after the Opera experience, I tried Firefox. This worked (!) -- at least until I tried to navigate back from the demo -- and it was another blue screen and reboot deal.

Online video sharing platform specialist, Forbidden Technologies unveiled its interim numbers for the six-month period to 30th June. Shares were unchanged at 26.5p as the company posted pre-tax losses of 344,922 pounds as negligible sales. However, an upbeat accompanying statement gave cause for optimism, as Forbidden said that it was "more confident" about the prospects for sales expansion in 2006. Bearing in mind the company generated just 17,851 pounds in sales for the first half, the company is starting from a pretty low base, so sales expansion should hardly prove difficult. However, progress is clearly being made in both the professional market with FORscene and the consumer market with Clesh, so perhaps the company can build some momentum in sales going forward.

Terrible results once again. Lower turnover and higher losses and still the very large cash burn.

FBT are down again. every year now for some time the price has fallen after the IBC exhibition which is just ending. This year the price did not even rise before IBC. perhaps releasing the poor results just prior to IBC was bad timing.

FBT is now only 6.5p above its all-time low of 18.5p in 2001.

I went to the Broadcast Live show where FBT where exhibiting. Their stand was poorly attended while I was there. I watched a seminar by FBT given by Stephen Streater. He is a good speaker, but I thought the content was very poor.

The audience asked the usual questions such as why doesn't FBT stream a decent sized image and why can't there be an option to resize. The reply was that Java cannot do full-screen without more control of the PC which is not possible.

The answer I got from one of their staff was that the quality would drop severly and that they could not expect to compete with installed streaming players such as Real, Widows Media and Quicktime. This is beacuse their player is downloaded at the front of the stream and is therefore restricted in size and features.

Now only 2.5p above its all-time low set a few months ago and less than 1.1p in net assets per share.

This trading at around 15 times net assets. Turnover 59K, loss 725,379.

Another fall. Now only 2p above its all-time low and still around 15 times net assets. A fair price looks to me to be about 3p max.