Ft Fbt Discussion Threads

[nickb] 02/5/2019 16:10

I find it interesting that this new player is also looking to the Live streaming market not just playing videos.

That to me really needs thinking about 🤔 what can be achieved using Blackbird player in the Live Video market?

[nickb] 02/5/2019 16:03

Maybe my memory is failing me but I don’t recall FBT ever having a stand-alone player.


Forscene could be used for professional viewing and logging which again from memory was what the woman was doing.

The BBC trial was workflow with another traditional editing software believed to be Apple’s FCPX although it could have been Adobe.

Confused information came from Aziz at the time!

BBC should be taking a fresh look now we work java script and the product has evolved.

BBC is hard to fathom and have imho a long history of getting it wrong although they never admit failure but don’t get me started on the BBC🤯

[mcsean2164] 02/5/2019 15:15

NickB,

The BBC were using the player to review their archives. There was a bbc video program of a woman using fbt's 'codec' to review video's on the player. The BBC never even used the editing, which was pretty devastating at the time.

[nickb] 02/5/2019 14:13

Doesn’t it come back to thinking that the technology is too globally massive for a small company?

[nickb] 02/5/2019 14:03

SS latest tweet to a question on date of release



We showed Live at #NAB2019 - the last major technical hurdle for the #Blackbird Player. Keep an eye on my tweets and try out the video links. There aren't many things to fix now, but testing and releasing takes time.

[nickb] 02/5/2019 14:02

Mcsean
BBC trialed our old video editing cloud platform.

This Viewer is new.

That’s my understanding.

[geheimnis2] 02/5/2019 12:42

Good to see that Stephen is still highly delusional!

I would expect nothing less!

[mcsean2164] 02/5/2019 12:20

I cannot understand it at all. The BBC trialed the player years ago. It sounds like they are relaunching the same product.

Fwiw

3 likes and 1 is me. Ss might as well be talking to the wall.

[paulcon1] 02/5/2019 12:10

If I was into 'wild conspiracies' I find the statement: ‘For real engagement, I look forward to the release of the #Blackbird #Player'

Its almost as if the release of the player is not being done by @blackbird

GL

#delusionisthenewnormal

[nickb] 02/5/2019 11:46

‘For real engagement, I look forward to the release of the #Blackbird #Player'

🤔 For the Player to be of any use to any viewer it needs great content to watch that is encoded in the Blackbird Codec

Currently out of the billions of hours of internet video No video content aimed at the consumer is Blackbird encoded!

How are they going to address this issue?

[nickb] 02/5/2019 09:51

All true from SS

The disconnect from what our technology can do for the industry or the end users to the actual take up so far is baffling.

Will we get the answer from this years AGM I wonder.

[paulcon1] 02/5/2019 09:39

Recent quotes from Mr Streater (He sounds very confident in his Tech)


'Our Tech ten years ahead - a world away from all the newcomers.' #Blackbirdcloud

'For real engagement, I look forward to the release of the #Blackbird #Player'

'Video streaming looking good. Internet "not built for video", so it benefits from specialist net-native technology'

GLA

[paulcon1] 02/5/2019 08:35

All great questions, hopefully the BOD's will not dodge the issues at the AGM


Onwards and Upwards though, GREAT TECHNOLOGY WITH VAST FINANCIAL POSSIBILITIES!!

GL and IMHO

[paulcon1] 02/5/2019 08:21

Marketing (or a lack of) would be a starting point to answer the lack of sales issue!

Financial resources may have played a part but this arrogant/naive 'build it and they will come' mind set simply failed!!

IMHO

[nickb] 01/5/2019 23:17

Chris

Worth asking them

[chriscallen] 01/5/2019 22:44

Is it possible that the selling price is too low? If somebody attempted to sell a car with the spec of a Bentley for the price of a new Dacia would anybody believe that it is as good. Too low a price can totally undermine the message. I have seen this happen in pharmaceuticals where a product which had languished for over 5 years had it's price quadrupled and in a single year the sales increased 15x and continued to grow thereafter.

[nickb] 01/5/2019 22:31

AGM Q.

Cloud Security are customers concerned?

[nickb] 01/5/2019 22:29

We all need to have greater understanding on what really is the resistance to sales.

Got to give them a hard time on this now.

[nickb] 01/5/2019 22:26

AGM Q.
Are potential customers asking for a particular technical feature that we don’t provide which prevents them from signing up?

[nickb] 01/5/2019 22:24

AGM Q.
Are we charging too much that potential customers are discouraged from signing up?

[bonio10000] 01/5/2019 22:19

£250k in sports revenue.

makes you wonder if we could do every major western sport and earn no more than £2m p.a. and still be loss making.

[sickness] 01/5/2019 21:26

I know we are all asking the same question of why are sales so poor, but I’d really be interested in their answer.

I’d like an answer for their pricing for licenses aswell. How can companies like delatre uses blackbird for so many major sports yet revenues be so low.

And what difference do they think the new blackbird player will do to revenue. Will it attract new customers or open up a new revenue stream?

[paulcon1] 01/5/2019 20:23

SSB

May I join your Semi-Suicide-Shovel-Club?

Thank you in advance