When DAZN presented a vision earlier this year for abandoning the notion of video as a sequence of pixels and instead treating it as a collection of scenes and events reconstructed at the edge, the sports streamer resembled something of a lone wolf. Some six months later, that is no longer the case. DAZN’s vision, coined Delta Protocol, has acquired an intriguing collection of partners ahead of IBC 2026, spanning broadcasters, standards bodies, cloud infrastructure, video compression and AI. Delta was first pitched as one of the shortlisted concepts at IBC’s Accelerator Kickstart Day in February, before being formally selected for the 2026 Accelerator program in March. But it was DAZN CTO Sandeep Tiku’s presentation at NAB in April that…