In the video infrastructure space, competitors have one eye opportunistically fixed on the expected fallout from the merger between two businesses with critical parts to play in broadcast and streaming – Harmonic and MediaKind. With that said, the 2026 NAB Show is shaping up as the perfect proving ground for rival vendors looking to flex their migration credentials to broadcasters, operators, and streamers considering a switch. One of those is Synamedia, which has been busy pre-NAB, adding a couple of new strings to its Quortex just-in-time encoding and packaging bow. The latest updates center on AI plug-ins for video workflow automation and processing, alongside what the company calls a new content substitution engine. At its core, Quortex has always been…