When I went over to my big brothers 1st place - he had like a half dozen of these things hooked up. Thats not exactly what they looked like, but was pretty similar. Could watch any channel I wanted to at his place. Next thing I know, he has Primestar and he's bought a little machine that could program the card that you put into the receiver. He'd give us a new card every now and then because they'd nuke the old one , and we'd just watch all kinds of PPV. Think we had DirecTV next, or something like that and he did it again there. Wasnt until the 2000's that I remember everyone looked to me to pirate movies and shit for them.