Q: what happens when a video quality specialist, a security expert, and a pair of video data professionals walk into a room? A: a whole load of potential solutions to the many challenges that comes with delivering, monitoring, and monetizing sports content. That’s what Faultline got when we welcomed SSIMWave, Verimatrix, 24i, and Firstlight Media onto our Sports Challenge live panel session this week – a discussion influenced by the migration of sports online and the resultant struggles of OTT video providers the world over to reliably deliver sports content. No example is more pertinent than DAZN in Italy (see separate update on Sky Italia this week), which spiraled so far into QoE chaos that it even incited government intervention.…