So here we are, still tapping the NAB well for stories, in the drought conditions that the video industry always seems to regress to after a good tradeshow. The subject of a talk that caught our eye was delivering 8K content to consumer homes, with a focus on the codecs required. Of course, for many homes, 4K resolutions (not even full UHD signal quality) is laughably out of reach, due to the quality of the networks and last-mile infrastructure deployed by their ISPs. For others, it’s more a question of price point. Sure, they could pay for the broadband package a couple of tiers higher than they currently have, in order to have the bandwidth needed for 8K, but practically,…