While video technology companies usually jump at the chance to pose as the leanest, meanest offering on the show floor, we noticed that a few vendors at NAB 2023 were keen to temper their clients’ demands for ultra-low latency. Despite talk of latency-crunching for specialist use cases, ‘faster is not always better’ was our main takeaway from chats with three separate providers at different points in the streaming workflow. Faultline has pointed out before that vendors are missing a trick by not aggressively competing on the latency front. Canal+’s low latency service for streaming F1, soccer and rugby is one of the few examples we have seen of speed being used as a market differentiator. When it comes to latency…