I'm planning on buying one of these for recording shows and editing movies off my old camcorder. Formac seems to have the best product with firewire and dv encoding but their software support seems to be lacking.El gato seems to have good software but the quality over usb cable doesn't seem promising and mpeg 1 is hard to edit.Does anybody have experience with any of these products? I'm planning on taking film courses next year so the dv encoding would be nice but for this year I would only use it for tv encodes. If it helps my system is a 1ghz(non ddr) with a gig of ram and a superdrive.