Broadcasters and broadcast technology suppliers have endured the most disruptive six months in the industry’s history, which has served as a brutal reminder to those who were too slow to embrace IP-based environments. In turn, this broadcast transformation has given renewed impetus to technologies ranging from streamlined remote production toolkits and cloud workflows to powerful post-production capabilities. Our attention was brought to a US vendor called latakoo operating in and around these markets, offering a potentially disruptive patent-heavy approach to video workflow compression. “Assembling clips is a pain in the neck. Post-production houses don’t normally have asset management capabilities, so they drop content into latakoo where it gets compressed, then ingested into an asset management system in one piece, and…