Zoo Digital Share Discussion Threads

[partridge2] 28/11/2006 13:37

LOL! Suppose your in profit eh! ROTFLMAO!
Be a man JJ dont tell lies!

[partridge2] 28/11/2006 12:29

P.S. I was holding at the big drop and am big enough to admit it. PITIFUL JJ

[bodgit] 28/11/2006 11:48

Diamante, sorry, cannot oblige you on share tips as I still have a modest paper loss with ZOO! But, FWIW, try TRK. Similar story to ZOO in a way. New technology development, taking longer than all hoped to become established in their chosen markets (underestimated tenacity of legacy technology), changed strategic approach, rewards coming through soon but as always DYOR. I am substantially invested in TRK so somewhat biased! BGC are another interesting play where I have a modest holding.

I still like ZOO and the more so now as their risk / reward has changed substantially. Good luck to all.

[diamante] 28/11/2006 11:12

Well I bought about a year ago for 9p, and sold a month later for 4p. Damn, was I deramping when I should have been ramping? I'll get the hang of it one day.

You get two types of investor - one type is those who occasionally make a loss on an investment. The other type is liars.

Anyone who think BB posts drive the price in the medium to long term are simply maniacs. It is the business performance, and the prospetcs of busines performance, which drive share prices.

Anyone can read back through my posts, both here and on BIT/PLW threads. My views are always supported by rational from the data available at the time, nothing is ivented, spun or lied about, - which is the difference between a ramper/deramper, and those giving their honest opinion (and the FACTS of the price performing for the reasons I previous gave on those stocks bears that out). It's called analysis, weighing up the the risk/reward. I don't make anything on declining small companies because I think shorting them is immoral. (I make some money on derivative trading large caps, some on recovery stocks, but most on large holdings in large caps over the long term, and I have income security from large Gilt holdings, if anyone is interested.).

Anyway, no point in living in the past. Let's have some more share tips from those kids who never lose!

[rob008] 28/11/2006 10:49

Good for you jj, we are all out to make a little something. Good luck all.

[rob008] 28/11/2006 10:47

Cheers siwel, I'll bide my time and take on board what you've said...

[jacobjohn7] 28/11/2006 10:44

you dont anything about when and where i bought or sold zoo, i certainly didnt hold all the way down, and fortunately missed the BIG drop. So even though I didnt sell at 12p (hindsight is a wonderful thing) I havent held all way down, and have been trying to catch the bottom since around 0.029p.

[siwel100] 28/11/2006 10:43

R0BOO8....No matter why you sold GOO, if you sold and didnt catch the worst of the fall and ended in profit then well done. Dont be too keen to jump back in just because you think it should bounce, there are a lot of stocks out there. Widen your watchlist and be patient.Get a consistant 30% annual capital growth and you are doing extremely well. Try to chase an instant million going all in on "hot" stocks and it will end in tears.

[rob008] 28/11/2006 10:35

Yep I did sell GOO after D went on the GOO bb going on about how he used to be a derivative trader. Then saying as the share price falls people will get margin calls and this causes more forced sells and more stop losses to be hit. He had already unnerved investors with his posts, it was classic D, just like he used to do on here. D if you're that convinced I haven't sold then go and do your worsed on the GOO thread you'll be doing me a massive favour, cheers...

I am still ultra positive about GOO, sold to buy in at a lower price jj and make even more money. Same as I sold out of ZOO at 12p when D started deramping and now I could buy back at the equivalent of around 0.7p where as you continued to hold all the way down. Without meaning to sound harsh the difference between me and you jj is that I learned something about investing by watching ZOO when D appeared.

[jacobjohn7] 28/11/2006 10:09

for what its worth rob, i agree with diamante(!) you were that positive that you needed to tell zoo shareholders (hourly) to buy GOO, we all said OK rob, now go away... This amazing confidence in GOO, and then suddenly you sell, just based on one comment from Diamante?! I personally find that very strange, as to be ultra positive about a share it means that you have done YOUR OWN research, and convinced yourself through due diligance that any particular share is a good investment, and if it was set to rocket, then why sell? Plenty of flaws there, but then again we are not dealing with a rational person are we?

[jacobjohn7] 28/11/2006 08:40

"although not des, not great for zoo as may put some off the idea of intereactive DVDS." ....
well IMO, as I said at the AGM, the people who are getting DOND, may well do so after having a quality product previously ie: WWTBAM, NTWICM.... (in which case they will compare and contrast what exactly is different in the production, ie: dvd extra mark. Its like I said, if you get the odd bad book, you dont stop reading!

[jacobjohn7] 28/11/2006 08:35

well diamante, it would also tally with certain other info, dont you think APH?

[diamante] 28/11/2006 08:28

I hope nobody followed Rob last week with his 'there's no doubt about it, GOO will be much higher next week, it's a fact, I'll be a millionaire soon due to Goo, you lot are all losers'. Goo down 25% since then. Zoo up 25%.

Jusr goes to show that the best policy is to ignore everything (bullish, bearish or just plain idiotic) written on BBs and DYOR.

JJ I was surprised by the article saying that the 'Scene it' series were des. I wouldn't take that as fact on that evidence. On the box, Zoo or DES sren't mentioned - however, Universal is. Maybe .....speculation again I'm afraid .... earlier versions were developed before Universal standardised on DES (if that is what they have done), and later versions were reengineered using DES. That could possibly explain the lack of zoo/des logo. Or maybe, the journo just got it wrong of course.

wwtbam best selling idvd on amazon btw, (des and dev revenue this year to zoo). DOND now 3rd best selling, picking up some absolutely terrible reviews (although not des, not great for zoo as may put some off the idea of intereactive DVDS. I'm sure those responsible for DOND will be looking to make imrpovements for next years version, so they'll be at least looking at using des imo.

[macca28] 27/11/2006 22:23

it goes along with an email i recieved from an informative source in april,
"which read"
I would guess at least 1 year for that stuff as iHD and Blue ray is still being figured out.

ps: if the december version is blu-ray etc,
they will have done well

[macca28] 27/11/2006 22:16

an interesting note:

the early adopter version of tas is the "dvd edition only"
future versions will include blu ray disc and hd dvd output,

[jacobjohn7] 27/11/2006 12:42

well, can only buy £400 worth online now with IWEB. and at 47p. Reckon tick up on next buy.

[jacobjohn7] 27/11/2006 12:35

plus the increasing demand by studios to get films to dvd quicker, but with more features.

[jacobjohn7] 27/11/2006 12:33

"ZOOtech, the British company known for its DVD Game technology, used in best-selling titles like Scene-It" ... APH what do you make of this phrase..??

[siwel100] 27/11/2006 12:14

APHZOMBIE...Boxed set DVD's of television series are the fastest growing sector of the DVD market. On a seperate note, last year the European market for DVD's grew by 15% but the prices fell by 13%, this is placing increasing pressures on production costs.Its a similar situation in the other regions.

[aphzombie] 27/11/2006 11:37

jj, it's also easy to overlook what's going on in the professional dvd studio world. The last paragraph hints at a warning to the dvd authoring fraternity of the effects of ZOOtech's new Templated Authoring System:



Standard-def DVD
Standard definition DVD isn't going away any time soon. ZOOtech, the British company known for its DVD Game technology, used in best-selling titles like Scene-It, was showing two new products, designed to radically decrease authoring time of multi-menu, multi-clip DVDs. First I looked at a DVD regionalization tool, for automating the creation of foreign language menus in Photoshop and After Effects. The other product was a prototype of a template-based authoring system, allowing non-authors to create full-featured discs. This system would be ideal for any series-based DVD, such as episodic television, training programs, or sports documentaries.

Projects like these have an established navigation system, typically consisting of a main video clip, or a group of clips, chapter menus, bonus video, and a setup menu for language and subtitles. Once the menus are constructed, and the video is encoded, a trained data-entry person simply loads in each file according to a wizard-style interface.

It's hard to say if this technology will make well-paid DVD authorists redundant, but if it is successful, they will be well-advised to learn Next-Gen authoring ASAP.