We have followed Quickplay Media for a few years now and it is safe to say that an exit by becoming the OTT arm of a major tier 1 operator always looked on the cards to us, so we were unsurprised when AT&T stepped up and bought it this week. Quickplay has no real intellectual property to distinguish it, instead it has what you might called good old fashioned know how. It just gets video jobs done and done right for its clients. It uses best of breed encoders, it supports any encryption operator ask for and focuses on making sure every step of the OTT journey is carried out exactly how its clients expect. In that sense it has…