[vdr] Basic question

[Sabine Miehlbradt <caboose@c-lab.de>]

Hi,

After using vdr on the job for quite a while my b/f and me are thinking 
about getting a dish and
card for our own home.  Which is in Germany, btw.

I'd like to know
a) we can only mount the dish on a slightly retired balcony facing east 
with a good view (hillside), is this feasible?

b) what size and kind of dish do we need? which is cheapest?

c)what card can you recommend? Again, money is mighty tight. Would a 
decoder box be better, since we need to get the stuff on TV? TV out 
connector is available, though. Well, what I'd really like is getting the 
stuff on screen for normal viewing easily. (b/f is no linux crack) and be 
able to record it with vdr (new toy).

d) have I forgotten anything? We do have an electrical engineer friend who 
can mount the disk correctly and lay the cables inside.
  I hope he can get us a used dish, too.

Sabine