Five years ago this week… The RDK camp was celebrating an historic win at Altice USA, with the operator’s finger on the trigger ready to fire out a new range of RDK-based broadband gateways – saving it significant development costs. This looked to spell good news for RDK-Video to be the software framework for Altice USA’s TV platform, but Faultline predicted Altice USA to break ranks, and just two years later, in summer 2021, Altice USA unveiled a new 4K streaming device powered by Android TV. In 2023, Altice USA expanded the Android line-up with the Broadcom-based Stream (V2) set top. Amazon Prime Video is allowing US customers to subscribe directly to Apple TV+, with plans for expansion to other…