My EyeTV programming subscription expired today \u2014 but it died the evening of Feb. 5.<\/p>\n
I was away, so I didn’t know it happened until I came back and found an empty screen where the TV listings were supposed to be. The thread about its unexpected demise<\/a> is the longest in the discussions forum for EyeTV.<\/p>\n I suppose I should consider myself lucky to have had it as long as I did (a month short of nine years). The EyeTV hardware was discontinued four years ago<\/a> and all product stuff and software was sold. Since then it was a case of renewing a subscription through the European subsidiary of a Chinese company\u00a0for something specific to North America. One thing or another was bound to come along. And everything I said about streaming in 2015 is an issue today, only many times more so.<\/p>\n Users have looked for other ways to populate the TV listings, but all of them involve deep work in Terminal and other fiddling with things. There’s a workaround that requires minimal effort to set recordings, using the TitanTV site<\/a>, although I have to have the EyeTV application open to realign the channel it’s looking for. The downside of this is that stumbling upon new shows is pretty much non-existent, so I didn’t find out until Wednesday that “The Amazing Race” was back.<\/p>\n The search for answers shows how much this service was still used. But the abruptness of the service termination (it’s looking for a TV Guide server) and the non-communication from the company was disgusting.<\/p>\n There are better ways to save $22 a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My EyeTV programming subscription expired today \u2014 but it died the evening of Feb. 5. I was away, so I didn’t know it happened until I came back and found an empty screen where the TV listings were supposed to … Continue reading