Five years ago this week… Mediaset España turned to Irdeto for robust video protection, to help salvage the PR disaster of its Mitele Plus streaming launch, which experienced widespread transmission outages of live soccer streams. Irdeto’s multi-DRM technology came in to prevent further lost revenue from piracy. Today, Mitele Plus has stabilized, with Irdeto’s DRM infrastructure now standard across its OTT portfolio, while the service competes in an increasingly crowded Spanish sports streaming market alongside LaLigaSportTV and other platforms. Android 17 beta spotlights VVC: Google’s Android 17 beta now supports the VVC (H.266) video codec, enabling higher-quality video at smaller file sizes and lower bandwidth for streaming and recording—marking a big step for next-generation video compression on mobile.…