diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 4f5ae2c3..31dc962c 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -4507,3 +4507,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   new 'noneString' in cMenuEditChanItem (reported by Thomas Günther). 
 - Added NULL checks to some strdup() calls in menuitems.c (suggested by Darren
   Salt).
+- Removed the unnecessary 'value' member from cMenuEditItem.
diff --git a/menuitems.c b/menuitems.c
index 56e5a4b0..1a362cc2 100644
--- a/menuitems.c
+++ b/menuitems.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: menuitems.c 1.38 2006/04/14 09:59:16 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: menuitems.c 1.39 2006/04/14 10:02:18 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "menuitems.h"
@@ -24,21 +24,17 @@ const char *FileNameChars = " abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-.#~,/_@";
 cMenuEditItem::cMenuEditItem(const char *Name)
 {
   name = strdup(Name ? Name : "???");
-  value = NULL;
 }
 
 cMenuEditItem::~cMenuEditItem()
 {
   free(name);
-  free(value);
 }
 
 void cMenuEditItem::SetValue(const char *Value)
 {
-  free(value);
-  value = strdup(Value);
   char *buffer = NULL;
-  asprintf(&buffer, "%s:\t%s", name, value);
+  asprintf(&buffer, "%s:\t%s", name, Value);
   SetText(buffer, false);
   cStatus::MsgOsdCurrentItem(buffer);
 }
diff --git a/menuitems.h b/menuitems.h
index f993e6cf..2454f95a 100644
--- a/menuitems.h
+++ b/menuitems.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: menuitems.h 1.19 2006/04/09 12:05:05 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: menuitems.h 1.20 2006/04/14 10:01:47 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __MENUITEMS_H
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ extern const char *FileNameChars;
 class cMenuEditItem : public cOsdItem {
 private:
   char *name;
-  char *value;
 public:
   cMenuEditItem(const char *Name);
   ~cMenuEditItem();