SES looked uncomfortably out of place at Connected TV World Summit 2024. Once the satellite fleet operator had presented its vision for HbbTV operator apps, reiterating that the SES HD+ platform has been integrated as standard by every TV manufacturer in Germany, a panel session followed in which two major European operators essentially rejected the entire premise of HbbTV OpApps. The panel concludes awkwardly with inconclusive comments about the actual number of live HbbTV OpApp deployments at operators around the world today (the forthcoming Freely application in the UK is the new flagbearer, but its joint owners are not operators). Meanwhile, SES reveals it is investigating internally about deploying pure IP devices too, as recognition of streaming trends and acknowledgement…