Five years ago this week… Sony Pictures Television Networks made its D2C OTT video entrance in Europe by promoting Film1 in the Netherlands from an outdated cable channel to a streaming service that combined over 300 first-run on-demand movie titles with a single live channel – itself a stream of Sony-owned Dutch premium linear TV channel Film1 Premiere. Film 1 was sold a year later in 2019 to SPI, an international FTA and pay TV operator based in the Netherlands, a subsidiary of the French Canal + Group, itself owned by Vivendi. Zoom has joined the Alliance for Open Media, the AV1 codec consortium. Many believed that video communication platforms like Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams would never…