Tandberg Television [Norway: TAT], which supplies open solutions for digital broadcasting, is introducing the Earlybird conditional access system for direct-to-home satellite, cable and terrestrial broadcasting.

Tandberg (Lysaker, Norway), in partnership with Naspers [Nasdaq: NPSN] subsidiary Irdeto Access (Hoofddorp, the Netherlands), developed Earlybird an end-to-end system comprised of everything from content encoding through to the set top box, designed to minimize start-up costs for new direct-to-home broadcasters.