V-Nova’s mic-drop moment has arrived. The UK video compression specialist is about to go mainstream in Brazil, of all places – securing a single order that could be worth tens of $millions in licensing revenues over several years. Faultline has been sitting impatiently on this major development for a number of weeks, after we initially caught wind of a game-changing email sent by Brazil’s digital terrestrial television body – the SBTVD Forum – together with the Brazilian government’s Ministry of Communications department. While the gory details aren’t strictly public, we understand it involves notifying the legal departments of every TV manufacturer, silicon maker, encoder supplier, and every other relevant video component active in Latin America that they must support LCEVC…