diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 2f955ec4..a6c84f66 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -7747,3 +7747,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   bonded devices (thanks to Siegfried Bosch).
 - Fixed stopping an ongoing recording on a system with bonded devices, if a timer with
   a higher priority requires a different band.
+- Updated the introductory text of the vdr.1 man page.
diff --git a/vdr.1 b/vdr.1
index dbbb4c4d..7d606d03 100644
--- a/vdr.1
+++ b/vdr.1
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 .\" License as specified in the file COPYING that comes with the
 .\" vdr distribution.
 .\"
-.\" $Id: vdr.1 2.15 2013/03/12 09:42:25 kls Exp $
+.\" $Id: vdr.1 2.16 2013/03/12 13:39:47 kls Exp $
 .\"
 .TH vdr 1 "31 Mar 2013" "2.0" "Video Disk Recorder"
 .SH NAME
@@ -27,13 +27,16 @@ live TV while recording one or more other broadcasts from the same transponder.
 It is also possible to start watching a recorded programme before the live
 broadcast has ended (\fBtime shifting\fR). In order to record from different
 transponders simultaneously two or more DVB cards are necessary.
-By default \fBvdr\fR can support up to four
-DVB cards. The primary DVB card (the one your TV set is connected to) has
-to be a "full featured" card, which means it must contain an MPEG decoder
-and provide audio and video signal outputs.
+By default \fBvdr\fR can support up to eight DVB cards.
+The primary DVB card (the one your TV set is connected to) can either
+be a "full featured" card, which means it contains an MPEG decoder
+and provides audio and video signal outputs, or you can use some third party
+plugin that implements software decoding of the MPEG data and displays it via
+the system's graphics adapter.
 
-\fBvdr\fR uses the On Screen Display of the DVB card to display its menus.
-It can be controlled by the PC keyboard or the "Linux Infrared Remote Control" (LIRC).
+\fBvdr\fR uses an On Screen Display (OSD) to display its menus.
+It can be controlled by the PC keyboard, the "Linux Infrared Remote Control" (LIRC),
+or any other means of remote control, implemented by a third party plugin.
 
 Remote access is possible via the "Simple Video Disk Recorder Protocol" (SVDRP),
 which can be accessed on port 6419, for instance by \fBtelnet\fR.