Appointment of CEO
Forbidden Technologies hires Ian McDonough as CEO Forbidden Technologies plc (AIM: FBT) is pleased to announce that Ian McDonough will join the Company as Chief Executive Officer on 1 September 2017. Ian will join the Company’s…
Read MoreAdding new market capabilities simply
In a dynamic market, continually reviewing and adjusting your commercial and development priorities is vital. This is our approach – and that of our progressive clients. Some of the key dynamics that are affecting the video…
Read MoreJavaScript Video Player
Forbidden anticipated the consumer web player experience – full frame rate video playback in a browser without installation or configuration. Our first public example, back in 2001, with 100,000 views within hours, noticeably impacted the UK…
Read MoreForbidden makes a strategic move to JavaScript
Forbidden Technologies plc (AIM: FBT) is pleased to announce the first JavaScript implementation of its core cloud Video Library “VidLib”, used as part of the Forscene platform. Forbidden’s first video player used Java to run on…
Read MoreForbidden Technologies plc agrees expanded deal with iconic sporting venue
Forbidden Technologies plc (AIM: FBT), is pleased to announce that it has today agreed an expanded deal with an iconic sports, music and entertainment venue in New York. To date the venue has successfully used Forbidden’s…
Read MoreEnabling vs Restrictive Standards
“You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year”, said Henry Ford. My brother, Alexander Streater, refined this for his school in Japan: “We are no longer in the Industrial Age….
Read MoreThe Power of Good Enough
The Better is the enemy of the Good. When I started in video in the 1980s, there was this thing called “broadcast quality”. With few broadcast television channels (and no YouTube or even World Wide Web),…
Read MoreThe Perfect Proxy IP Codec for the Media Supply Chain
Media professionals everywhere are having continuous discussions surrounding the cloud. There are conversations surrounding data centres structures, storage, platforms, services, and of course the discussion of visibility supporting a media supply chain. Depending on your organisation,…
Read MoreAll just a little bit of History repeating…
Having worked in video post-production for a few years 🙂 , I remember when non-linear editing first arrived at the end of the 80’s. Only for the chosen ones At that time all video editing was…
Read MoreForbidden’s Vision: the What
Introduction With video set to dominate internet traffic, Forbidden set about its visionary plan to revolutionise internet video. The scope of the Forscene Video Platform can only be glimpsed here. The Forscene Video Platform The basic…
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