Broadcast technology platform designer Forbidden Technologies' (FBT:AIM) Forscene mobile editing suite will be used on a project researching the history of television production technology.
The European Research Council-funded ADAPT programme of the Royal Holloway University of London is behind the project. It will use a combination of archived content and facility reconstructions to piece together the threads of the complex story of British broadcast production technologies, from the 1960's through to the present day.
'It seems apt that as we research how production technology has evolved, we are using one of the most advanced technologies in the industry to tell this story,' explains John Ellis, Professor of media arts at Royal Holloway.
It's an apt topic given the Dallas Campbell-fronted Beeb documentary shown last night, 'Television's Opening Night - how the box was born' (available on iPlayer if you missed it and are interested).
It's a feather in the cap-type bit of business for Forbidden, but nothing more. While Professor Ellis describes Forscene as offering 'the flexibility and scale to complete this project with the resources we have' there are no financials, so presumably the contract's value is not meaningful on its own.
The Forbidden story is a long and fairly painful one for most investors, as we extensively detailed in a feature in February. So far there is little sign of the meaningful growth promised by CEO Musa Aziz, half year to 30 June revenues were flat at £327k and losses only marginally better.
Hopefully the 25% rise in invoiced sales stated for the period bodes better for the latter six months and beyond, but the company still has everything to prove right now, even if some investors seem to be giving it the benefit of the doubt - the stock is up 5% today at 11.62p, a 57.5% jump in 2016.
