Five years ago this week… As IBC 2025 looms, it’s worth remembering 2020—a lockdown-strangled show where virtual events could never match schedule chaos or the thrill of chance encounters. Amid the yawns of the 2020 virtual IBC Show, a session called “TV Delivered as Objects” cut through the gloom, featuring BBC, ITV, Yle, TV2, and Unity, with Eluvio, Grass Valley, Dazzl, and Singular.live. This showed TV could be modular, reactive, and built around the viewer, not clunky hardware. It was a rare spark in a grim year—and the questions it raised are still shaping the industry five years later. Paramount+ adds Multiview: Freshly absorbed into Skydance’s empire, Paramount+ is finally rolling out Multiview—the long-overdue ability to watch up to four…