As in what technologies did they use and how did they logistically made it happen back then?
From what I could gather pay per view cable TV has been around since 60s – 70s. So for most of its existence it must have been using analog technologies right?
How did they deal with encryption and on-demand decryption then to allow for pay per view service to exist so earily?
I found out they must have used some kind of ‘scrambler’ as in some secondary device that was supposed to decrypt the signal from cable and feed it to the TV. But I assume scrambler was getting an analog signal right? so how did that analog encryption even work? And secondly, how did it even allow for on-demand decryption?
I mean, they couldn’t just – I don’t know – just tell me a password to unlock some encrypted channel could they? Were they mailing/selling some analog decrypting cards weeks before event or something?
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Analog-only cable television systems relied on set-top boxes to control access to programming
Everything has been converted to digital and your cable provider can turn it on and off with a click.
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