For the past 15 years, Faultline has been writing about the hurdles faced by MSOs around how to introduce an advanced UI across multiple existing device types, without having to switch-out an entire set top footprint overnight. ActiveVideo emerged as a solution for just that in the early 2010s, as a cloud UI rendering specialist which saw success among top tier US cable companies including Charter and Cablevision. Jointly acquired by Arris and Charter for $135 million in 2015, ActiveVideo pioneered cloud processing, by rolling down mapped images in the HTML 5.0 browser to a traditional TV browser—creating set top environments capable of running brand new UIs and apps. Yet ActiveVideo wasn’t actually the first time Faultline had heard this…