Media technology services provider Planetcast has acquired US-based playout vendor BroadStream, continuing its international push beyond its native India to establish a greater US presence in content playout. BroadStream (not to be confused with managed IPTV services provider Broadstream Communications, dug out of the Faultline archives from 2009) will bring integrated playout, captioning, subtitling, and workflow technology to improve its media services and distribution infrastructure that have so far stormed ahead in the Indian playout market. But Planetcast already has well-established cloud playout and subtitling offerings for broadcasters, so realistically, what does BroadStream bring to the table? Planetcast’s Cloud Playout offering CloudX already gives broadcasters multi-format support (SD, HD, UHD), integrated graphics, advanced scheduling and automation, live ingest, and redundancy with a claimed 99.99% uptime. By contrast, BroadStream operates a run-of-the-mill playout offering via its…