RWB

I've used EyeTV since the days of EyeTV 2. When EyeTV 3 was released, the software license cost around £80. The best way to make the upgrade worthwhile was to buy a new low-cost tuner from Elgato, the then owners. That bought a tuner plus the software for about £90. Not a problem. Now that EyeTV 4 has been released, their very low initial asking price is much more reasonable, but you can still make a saving by buying some hardware from Geniatech, which might still have EyeTV 3 included, but which will allow you to obtain EyeTV 4 for no additional cost. And yes; a new major iteration of any software usually means that the application has been re-written in a substantial way. That requires work. Workers require a salary. Customers pay that salary. Why do you have a problem with that? I doubt that you would be very happy if you worked for someone and they threatened to fire you if you wanted paying. Be sensible and pay for what you are using.

I've not upgraded to Mojave, because EyeTV is my only TV tuner, and EyeTV Betas have been hopeless in functionality and interface design. The whole application reminds me of Windows software, in that it is buggy, requires reboots, crashes, looks ugly and outputs files in proprietary Microsoft format; AVI. Judging by the reports in another section of this forum, the released version of EyeTV 4 has been unacceptably bad for a number of users. Thanks for letting us know that EyeTV 3 works from within a Virtual Machine. I might follow your lead. It will be better than running two computers, with one only being used for TV viewing.

There is a forum section at: https://eyetvforum.com/index.php?/forum/42-beta-software-code-as-it-is/ where people have been reporting numerous shortcomings and bug with EyeTV4 Beta Builds and the release versions for about a year. There is at least one person who does answer feedback there. Unfortunately, it seems that Geniatech have a very small development team [maybe only one person, but I'm guessing], and so fixes for bugs are only7 happening slowly. The released and paid for versions have so far contained most of the bugs and faults of the Beta builds. The attitude of Geniatech towards their customers who run Apple hardware has been well below the standard expected by Mac users. They did not even begin Beta testing of EyeTV 4 until after Apple dropped 32-bit support, over a year ago, and despite Apple announcing publicly, and several years in advance, that support would be discontinued. I have not yet upgraded my operating system because having to use EyeTV 3, which will not work in Mojave, and which has features which are not available in EyeTV 4. A number of other people are having to do the same thing. If there was another reliable 64-bit application which could fulfil the rôle of EyeTV 3, many people would have stopped using Geniatech software long ago.