Why EyeTV still doesn't work for me in a mac mini media center

I have been running a homebuilt media center since 2005 starting with a large box in the living room running Media Center 2005.  As I've said before, I think the MCE is very well designed.  Since I got my first mac in 2007 I have been impressed with the design that goes into everything.  Well, almost everything.  Frontrow was a bit of a jarring experience after coming from the MCE.

The Mac Mini seemed like the perfect solution to run a media center from.  It was quiet, small, discreet and reasonably powerful.  The only viable TV solution was EyeTV from Elgato.  It is a great solution whilst on the road and running from a university dorm.  Unfortunately as a living room experience it is left lacking.  The control via the remote is clunky to say the least, in part due to apples insistence that everything can be done with a 6 function remote.  I haven't found the program to be the most stable and would often find recordings weren't made.

I recently reinstalled eyeTV a year after trying it last.  For any recording setup I think that two tuners as a minimum is essential.  For some reason the programs that we want to watch are always on at the same time.  On the MCE this is handled flawlessly.  If you select a channel to record and then try to watch another, it will seamlessly select an unused tuner.   EyeTV handles this situation by throwing up an error saying that until the recording is stopped the channel won't be changed.  The only way to get round this is to delve deep into the menu structure to manually change tuner.

Elgato have done a lot of amazing work on EyeTV but don't seem to want to add this simple bit of functionality.  If you are only running a single tuner it will do what you want.