Five years ago this week… Sky unexpectedly caved into pressure from streaming giants, adding Netflix and Spotify to its Sky Q set top and Now TV box. Both streaming services were a means of pressuring people onto the Sky Q set top, which offered WiFi mesh connectivity, with alternative backhaul over powerline, UHD content, Kids mode and voice TV remote. Sky had shown a genuine resistance to onboarding anything alien onto its set tops, but had come to realize that Virgin Media’s pioneering approach of treating Netflix like any other channel was the only rational move forward. — Brazilian broadcaster Globo tested an LCEVC-enhanced live stream for the recent Carnival 2023 in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The…