Five years ago this week… The involvement of V-Nova‘s Perseus technology in the working draft of MPEG-5 part 2 was revealed. Faultline uncovered some of the reasons behind factors that have kept Perseus’ customer list at a minimum. Notably, Perseus was bashed by encoding vendors on the premise that the technology was commoditization encoders, and was therefore a threat to the business to the likes of AWS Elemental, Ateme, or Harmonic. Some 62 Perseus projects were underway at industry giants including Twitch, CNN, and Facebook. The 2024 NAB Show was a year of firsts for many walking the halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center, with more than half (54%) of the trade show’s 61,000 attendees listed as “first-time attendees”, according to the organizers of…