How can VDR record with timer if behind a decoder ? - vdr

8 Apr 2008


      Hi.
There is something i do not understand.
Here is how i though it works:
My TV provider, Casema in the netherlands, delivers digital TV via a decoder 
with a sort of credit card.
Normally you use the remote control of this decoder to choose the tv prog to 
watch.
Thus decoder sends only the selected digital channel to the DVB-C TV card in 
the computer.
This was told to me by a sales person today.
If this is true, how then can VDR select the different digital programs with 
the timers in VDR set by you ?
Then somehow all digital channels have to be send to the DVB-C TV card.
Or does VDR not work with decoders with such a credit card restriction ?
I hope someone can explain this to me.
If feel a bit stupid right now, i hope this falls under the saying "There are 
no stupid questions" :-)