Vodafone has been vaulted from pay TV periphery to cloud video spotlight in a couple of short years, this week publishing its most important financial results to date outside of its core mobile business. In Germany, where Vodafone has absorbed the Unitymedia cable assets from Liberty Global, the gentle handling of the transition from Horizon TV to Giga TV was not exactly a smooth one for the operator over the fourth quarter. Vodafone Deutschland registered 75,000 German video customer losses – wrapping up a year to forget in which 281,000 cut the cord. In the bigger context, Vodafone Deutschland won’t be worried, with its total TV subscriber base of just over 13.4 million a considerable increase on the 7.54 million…