Please do yourself a favor and look at the Canopus line. I own the ADVC-100 and it works perfectly. It will also defeat Macrovision, although this is NOT an advertised feature :-). It converts analog video to DV avi and is seen by the computer as a firewire device, no drivers needed.
http://www.canopus.com/US/products/advc-100/pm_advc-100.aspJeff
