Rural US operator Cable One is set to be the latest casualty of the pay TV exodus, as executives reveal contingency plans are in place to navigate a future environment without any video business – QAM or IP. This is bad but not unexpected news for TiVo and its parent Xperi, as the provider of Cable One’s app-based streaming package, and adds further gusto behind Xperi’s strategy to ship its TiVo OS directly to smart TV OEMs. MobiTV won the contract at Cable One in the early days of 2021, to develop a new all-IP video offering, called Sparklight TV. This was set to replace the legacy TiVo-based platform, encouraging TiVo to enter the bidding for MobiTV which capitulated months…