Talk:Conditional access

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Hardware pairing, smart cards, PCMCIA CI modules are not discussed. This article appears half baked and appears inadequate for any person trying to learn from Wikipedia. I wish people put in more effort.

It seems to me that conditional access is just newspeak for access control - is there any point having a second entry? or can we just switch conditional access to a redirect to access control ? e.g. on this web site of people who link non-free content http://www.scmmicro.de/dvb/index.html all uses of conditional access seem to be just a fancy new name for access control or encryption/decryption. Boud 11:42, 14 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I concur. This should probably be redirected to access control. If necessary, access control could mention the term conditional access as an alternate/buzzword name. - Alynna 13:12, 14 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Condtional Access is TV jargon, meaning slightly more than just access control. the de: Wikipedia has a good if extremely messy article on this, which I'm going to try to emulate (but not translate, both it and my German aren't good enough) here, and use this solely to refer to condional access in the DVB sense. --Kiand 17:26, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Access control article is ok for the general concepts, but the specifics for the Telecommunications and CE domain must be explained in an isolated context so that the reader is not swamped with out of context peripheral concepts (eg. access control to a building). For example, if someone were trying to understand DVB-CA or Cablecard security access schemes, the predication chain they could follow is Cablecard ISA system employing conditional access which ISA access control mechanism. Conditional access software is an approach which is being considered by Consumer electronics and Media distribution companies worldwide for use not just in television but portable media applications. It is closely related to Digital Rights Management which is a source of a great deal of user interest and confusion. As such, "Conditional Access" is valuable term not because it is fashionable, but because it is a significant and distinct consumer electronics and telecommunications concept. It deserves separate treatment in a separate article, but I do agree that the general concepts should be referred to the access control article. -Mak 18:28, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• The arbitrary and original research in the list and other information will make merging this information difficult. I think redirecting to Access control is the best and make mention of the basic term of Conditional access along with citations that can be found in reliable sources.

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Pmedema (talk) 17:41, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]