It appears MediaKind is feeling the competition heating up among all-in-one video platforms, having just announced some overstated updates to its MediaFirst offering – a fully virtualized cloud-based TV platform technology for pay TV operators. While it promises increased agility, scalability, and fast-to-market capabilities, few of the updates jump out as revolutionary, causing us to wonder whether MediaKind is getting nervous – as it battles to keep clients from moving to Android TV Operator Tier and RDK-based platforms. Despite talk of significant developments, Faultline really had to comb through the press release to nail down any organic changes, with the only tangible updates arriving on the UX/UI side of things. Universal search, rich metadata, and advanced personalization are three important…