Harmonic has thrown a curveball by quietly saying it will showcase watermarking integrations from both Viaccess-Orca and Nagra at IBC 2022, just one week after announcing what appeared to be an exclusive watermarking-encoder deal with the Kudelski company. Shortly after Faultline spotted the US encoding firm dropping the ball with a one-liner in its pre-IBC highlights earlier this week, we were told to wait for an official announcement, which was eventually issued just hours before we went to press. The significance is that we believe this is the first instance of two rival watermarking technologies being integrated by the same video encoding provider, and likely not the last. Presumably, it then comes down to customer choice about whether to insert…