Not a free upgrade. The upgrade to version 3 is USD$6.95

What the heck was barebones thinking?

Functionality is stripped out. For example documents drawer replaced with non-movable sidebar which can't get keyboard focus and is missing a "Save" feature. (Yes, you can get rid of it with an obscure command line preference!). "Text Factories" are now "Filters" (though displayed messages still refer to "Text Factories") but can no longer be applied to several files at once.

UI improvements? None that I notice. Just some preferences moved so they are no longer all in one place and a horrible implementation of a preferences dialog added.

Bugs cleaned? I don't know. Seems to me same silly things are still there. Like how come when I search a single file for all occurrences of a string I'm told a "Multi-file search" is completed? Well at least that's no longer echoed onto the console.

New features? Yes. At least some. Zip file editing and packages support comes to mind. That's nice. Gotta give them credit there.

Trying to mess with prices so they can sell a crippled Apple store version makes no sense to me. I think it will not go over well, but we will see.

I've been using BBEdit as long as I can remember and paid for every upgrade. Sadly, both those things are likely to come to an end now.

Astonishingly slow rendering a map. On an 8 core power mac with plenty of free memory it's quicker to go to google maps via a slow internet connection and get the map than it is for Route Buddy to draw it from the internal hard disk. And zoom in a notch? Yup, we wait all over again. Makes no difference if I use Open GL or software rendering. That said, version 3 seems only slightly slower than version 2, which also was horrible.

Entering an address is hit or miss -- generally miss.

Importing and displaying tracks works very well.

I like the company and love they are filling a niche. The product continues to disappoint. I will still support the effort and hope they get it right one day.

Version 2 has distorted graphics for me and was unplayable so I was glad to see what seems like an update. But now this seems to be controlled by bigfishgames and it wants to download some game controller which just immediately crashes.

Guess Runes is still ruined.

Changed in 3.4.3

EyeTV now supports remote control learning for the EyeTV HD. If you have a set top box that is not supported by the default set of codes, you can learn the codes for your remote control.

EyeTV now supports Wave and AIFF as audio-only export formats.

Bug Fixes:

General
Fixed playback of H.264 as broadcast by BBC HD.
Resolved an issue where NBN channels in Australia would have no audio.
Fixed a problem with new Sky HD channels.
Improved support for EyeTV Sat.
Add support for Thor 6 satellite at 0.6¡W.
Improved support for infrared remote controls with EyeTV Sat.
Exported TV shows now show the correct release date in iTunes.
Fixed a port leak that could cause large amounts of RAM and live buffer to be used, resulting in out of memory errors.
Improved performance, launch time, and sorting for large archives.
Improved the appearance of Closed Captions, especially for roll-up style.
Fixed a problem where Cmd-Left arrow would invoke the player window when using in the EyeTV search field.
EyeTV now remembers the user selected audio device and solves a problem where the HDMI audio was not used after turning an HDMI monitor on.
Fixed a problem where ÒABRecord (ABCDContact) valueForProperty: ZIP - unknown propertyÓ would appear in the Console when EyeTV was launched.

AppleScript
Fixed some AppleScript problems with the 'channel' property.
Fixed an AppleScript problem where the 'start recording' property was doing nothing when the player window was closed.
Improved 'export' command.

EPG
Fix the tvtv mapping for ÒVH1 ClassicÓ.
Fix a hang when the internet connection is lost while performing a tvtv update.
Fixed a problem where EyeTV would fail to copy or export any re-encoded variant that was an alias.
Fixed a problem where the default EPG guide was not set to tvtv if the country was set to Ireland.
Support ISO-8859-6 (Arabic) for XMLTV.
Fix star-rating parsing for XMLTV.
Fix a problem where the DVB EPG was missing on relaunch with EyeTV Netstream DTT.

Smart Guide
Fix problem where one episode title was a substring of an other episode title.
Fix a bug which caused a Smart Guide to not record some shows.

Devices
Fixed jerky playback of exported files to QuickTime and iTunes when using a 480p source with EyeTV HD and iPad quality settings.
Fix auto-tune for EyeTV Cinergy 450 on newer Mac Mini (2010).
Fix a problem where EyeTV Netstream DTT was disabled after sleep.

Note about updates: Checking for updates is broken. It will tell you there are no updates when there really are. The only way I know to get the updates is to download the free trial, which is the full program. It will ask for a name and e-mail address but they are not verified -- I just give support@srslabs.com as my e-mail address :-)

And don't believe their release notes either -- there are lots of versions and changes not listed there.

Also, if you are getting an error on your console about an invalid iWow plugin in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL then delete the iWow.plugin that's there, then run the latest iWow installer.

Yes, they are sloppy, sloppy sloppy. But the program does work. Eventually.