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New version 0.71 of Video Disc Recorder available

<p>
		The most personal video recorder on the planet. Now with Cable TV
		support.
</p>

<p>
 The new version 0.71 of the Video Disk Recorder project is now available
at 
</p>

<p>
 <a
href="http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/download.htm">http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/download.htm</a>
</p>

<p>
NOTE: For those of you who have already downloaded the 0.71pre10 archive:
      version 0.71 is identical to 0.71pre10, so you don't need to download
      the "official" 0.71 archive.
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<p>
<list>
<li> VDR now requires that you use DVB driver version 0.8.2 or higher.</li>
<li>The new compile time option REMOTE=NONE can be used to compile VDR</li>
  without any remote control support.
<li>The new command line option -D can be used to define which DVB interfaces</li>
  a certain instance of VDR shall use.
<li>The "Left" and "Right" keys are now used to page up and down in lists.</li>
<li>The "Main" and "Commands" menu now support "hotkeys".</li>
<li>The channel data in 'channels.conf' now contains the teletext PID.</li>
<li>The EPG scanner now scans each transponder only once per cycle.</li>
<li> Deleted recordings are now automatically removed from disk after a while.</li>
<li>The "Now", "Next" and "Schedule" menus now remember the current channel and
  restore the list when switching between them.</li>
<li>The "Green" button in the "Recordings" menu can now be used to rewind a
  recording and play it from the very beginning.</li>
<li> New SVDRP command MESG to display a short message on the OSD.</li>
<li>SVDRP now has a timeout after which the connection is automatically closed.</li>
<li>The compile time switch VFAT can be used to make VDR avoid the ':' character
  in file names (VFAT can't handle them).</li>
<li>Support for DVB-C (cable).</li>
<li>A value of '0' for the EPGScanTimeout setup parameter now completely turns
  off scanning for EPG data on both single and multiple card systems.</li>
<li>New setup parameter "PrimaryLimit" that allows to prevent timers from using
  the primary DVB interface in multi card systems.</li>
<li>Watchdog function that makes VDR exit in case the main program loop does not
  respond within a certain time.</li>
</list>
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Thanks to Klaus Schmidinger</p>