Five years ago this week… Comcast was on the back foot against AT&T, rolling out its Xfinity Instant TV app out in beta mode across a few trial areas to combat the rise of DirecTV Now. Going down the millennials-only route pursued by Verizon’s Go90 would have been a mistake, so Xfinity TV offered three additional packages on top, resembling something more akin to Dish Network’s Sling TV or Sky’s Now TV. The basic package cost $18 a month, or a total of $53 when factoring in the minimum Xfinity broadband subscription fee. — MediaKind has backed up its hefty VVC (Versatile Video Codec) R&D investment commitments with a blogpost stating that its current VVC real-time software encoding…