[Macha]

Two SCART was pretty common, for e.g. a VHS player and a sky box. We definitely had switcher boxes we needed to use to connect game consoles, (or dvd players when they became a thing) up though.

I think some VHS players also had some form of pass through/switching capability of their own? It's been a while.

[rsynnott]

Yeah, most VCRs, except for really cheap ones, had the pass through ability. You could theoretically chain an arbitrary number of devices, though at the best of times controlling any of this was virtually impossible.

You’d normally want your sky/cablelink box connected through your vcr, so that you could record off the box, not connected separately to the tv.