Affordable hardware for VHS - PowerMac

I am working on digitizing a large collection of VHS and 8mm home videos. So far I've been running the video through a digital camcorder to get it onto my PowerMac. The resulting sizes of the files is larger than it needs to be, since the digital camcorder converts the signal to DV.
Is there some kind of affordable (preferrably $20-$30) capture hardware that I can get so that I can get my home videos onto my mac without upsampling it? I figure that ought to cut the file sizes byWhat should I be looking for? Both my VCR and 8mm camcorder have standard RCA cable outputs.

You aren't "upsampling" at all. Capturing analog video should be done in DV, and that is going to require around 13.5GB of hard drive space per hour. With 500GB internally and a 250GB LaCie drive, I find it hard to believe that hard drive space is at a premium unless you're trying to archive your entire VHS library on the hard drive at one time. Just capture one tape, edit in FCP, then export to MPEG from within FCP or with Compressor, and author your DVDs with DVD Studio Pro. While it's true that a lot of PC capture cards compress to MPEG on the fly, this is NOT recommended. Even though you'll see VHS referred to as having a resolution of 352x240, but you're gonna need every pixel of the 720x480 DVD resolution to make a digital capture from VHS look decent. Check out this link for an explanation:
http://www.divx-digest.com/articles/vhs_capture.html
(Ignore the DivX-specific stuff, as you won't be using that codec for your DVDs.)

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