Faultline exclusively wrote about Canadian operator Telus taking the Verimatrix Streamkeeper product back in April this year. For that reason, a press release from the US-based content protection vendor this week initially gave little to desire. Behind the marketing smokescreen, however, lurks an update to Optik TV, the IPTV platform offered by Telus. The first thing to note is that Optik TV has outlasted its life expectancy. The long-standing Optik TV brand was expected to be ancient history by now, with the legacy Mediaroom-based IPTV platform due to be replaced by the shiny new Android TV offering under the new name of Telus TV+. This was supposed to happen some six months ago, but evidently Telus had a change of…
