The honeymoon period is over for Greening of Streaming. The non-profit members group has been an active ideas factory since its 2021 inception – but, more recently, patience has been wearing thin about the outfit’s merits for moving streaming’s not-so-sustainable needle, to justify its membership fees. Hot off the press is a first sighting of tangible data from Greening of Streaming, revealing preliminary results from a spate of recent real-world “hackathons”, with the most recent in February 2024, to produce what is effectively an SDR versus HDR energy comparison report. With the document heavily redacted, no eye-catching headline findings can be found, which implies the results of this project are laying the groundwork for something much bigger. Indeed, Greening of…