Harmonic made itself heard early on at NAB 2019 with a slew of announcements, boasting customer wins at PCCW Media and IndyCar, alongside adding support for Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure and expanding its partnership with Akamai. The US broadcast industry’s compression darling was not budging though on expanding details regarding our big scoop from last week about MPEG-5 embracing V-Nova’s technology, but more on that in our separate article. “What I will say, and our CEO is here to testify for me, is that as a software-based company, we can embrace any codec; we don’t need cloud technology (Microsoft Azure’s GM was on stage looking less than impressed),” said Harmonic’s Head of Video Strategy Thierry Fautier. Immediately, the mention of…