While our friends at ThinkAnalytics and TiVo will both testify to the opposite, it is harder now to be in the video recommendations software business than ever, and to our mind it is likely to get substantially worse as machine learning takes a hand – offering cloud-based start-ups the chance to make inroads to the market, at the expense of these two and other established players. The other issue is that recommendations were launched into the era when there was little VoD, but there were 500 channel services – it is definitely needed as a tool over and above the EPG, to navigate that many channels. Today the problem has reversed – there are now skinny bundles making up the…