Five years ago this week… Orange leapfrogged French pay TV by announcing its HDR-enabled Livebox, with the promise of 4K matches being broadcast for the Euros 2016 soccer tournament and a 1TB DVR that could be shared by up to 10 people. It marked Orange’s return to the Broadcom chipset family, which was indicative of the decline of Intel’s near-monopoly in the French set top market. While Faultline felt operator approaches to set tops was becoming increasingly unpredictable, it looked as though Orange was going down the path of Liberty Global and Sky – loading up on-device capabilities and practically ignoring the cloud were it not for the supplementary cloud DVR provided. — Samsung has signed a patent license…