Analog to dv converter should be included in macs

Can anyone explain why apple has not included an analog to dv card in their computers. Seems to me that a lot of people use their macs for this purpose, but finding a decent analog to dv converter (Ihad a formac studio box that recently quit on me, 3 years old!!!!)is like looking for a pot of gold!!!!

I wish at least one of my macs came with a converter! I have so many VCR and 8mm tapes on my old consumer cam corder that I want to convert and I found this post browsing around for a converter! I'm ready to put everything into Final Cut and edit it. I want to save everything on DVD and send some DVD's to my family who Live in Puerto Rico. I know from a commercial point of view most of the footage may not come in like this any more but I have a lot of family's kids who grew up and are getting married and stuff and I want to give DVDs to them of their grandparents and etc, etc. So I tried to cheat today! I connected my old camcorder's RCA cables to the aux input on my digital cable box because the Comcast cable box has a firewire port. The picture was great on the TV but I found out the firewire ports on those HD boxes are disabled! The HDMI port is enabled but I don't think there is a converter to go from HDMI to firewire so that I can capture on my mac. Any recommendations?

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