Five years ago this week… Prior to the official unveiling ahead of NAB 2019, Faultline joined the dots that V-Nova’s Perseus compression technology had been embraced as an extension within the MPEG-5 working draft – marking a coming of age for the London-based compression start-up. It became clear that V-Nova’s involvement in MPEG-5 was recommended by Thierry Fautier, Harmonic’s VP of video strategy at the time, which was notable because of Harmonic’s former resistance to V-Nova’s technology. Faultline quizzed Fautier on this historic rivalry at the landmark NAB 2019 press conference, and we were greeted by a familiar French shrugging of the shoulders, as if the two companies had always been best friends. Synamedia will debut its new Media Edge…