Mile High Video 2025 showcased an impressive array of low-latency technologies, highlighting the streaming industry’s commitment to rising consumer demand for more responsive viewing experiences. Indirectly, Faultline received some answers in Denver this week about the future of one of the protocols pushing low-latency streams – HESP (High Efficiency Streaming Protocol), founded by THEO Technologies. Unfortunately for HESP and THEO, now part of Dolby, the future isn’t bright, as several presenters at Mile High Video pushed for L3D (Low-Latency, Low-Delay) as a future replacement for the HTTP-based HESP, which is apparently considered too expensive to maintain and reportedly has trouble scaling. Not to mention Dolby also has Millicast, based on WebRTC, so there were always questions over how Dolby would…