Five years ago this week… The Secure Content Storage Association’s (SCSA) method for securely storing premium video on disk and flash memory, Vidity, was ready to go to market. It was hoped Vidity would eventually replace DVDs, so the SCSA was beginning to recruit all players in the content chain to issue licenses, which we estimated would cost around $1 per device. Vidity was set to rival SeeQVault, a chip-storage initiative from Panasonic, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba that was designed around a specialist new Flash card. SeeQVault debuted at IBC 2014, but then quickly went under the radar. We said that the SCSA specification was destined to be a winner from its inception in 2012, as its development began with…