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Originally Posted by dishdude

The PAY TV switch worked with an adapter that plugged into the AUX port. If you needed a cable box to descramble HBO, it allowed you to split your cable line to the VCR and cable box, then run the output of the cable box to the adapter. This allowed you to tune a scrambled channel on the VCR tuner so you could set timers on multiple channels.

Ah yes it comes back now. It has that AUX jack in the back .... never saw a descrambler for that. Another obsolete technology.