Opportunistic compression company V-Nova jumped into action this week to highlight the failings of recent World Cup streams, using the BBC and others as a pedestal for reminding the industry where key improvements can be made. Of course, V-Nova’s Perseus technology took center stage in the joint webinar with non-profit trade group IABM (International Association for Broadcast & Media), yet the proprietary codec is seemingly still struggling to gather momentum despite being a proven cost saver. “There has been a lot of false marketing on data networks,” said V-Nova CEO Guido Meardi, citing that although Akamai’s latest State of the Internet findings showed a global average speed of 16.9 Mbps, this data is skewed by very few high speeds and…