Thanks to the multi-platform, multi-device global media landscape, content owners today need to make and keep hundreds of different versions of the same movie or TV episode to be delivered to different devices and in different formats. To combat this, Netflix is taking a pure Silicon Valley approach to it experimenting with an Interoperable Master Format (IMF), to help streamline the production of these formats. It will help movement between studios and content distributors like Netflix. “As Netflix expanded into a global entertainment platform, our supply chain needed an efficient way to vault our masters in the cloud that didn’t require a different version for every territory in which we have our service,” said Netflix’s Chris Fetner and Brian Kenworthy,…