Best video capture device?

Ok quick question, I know the answers will be opinion only, but for all you who are experienced with Macs and the OS, which is the best video capture device (most like a Tivo) to use with my new iMac G5? Any help is appreciated, you guys have been great so far.
Cheers

So far, I've had great luck with the Elgato EyeTV 200 unit combined with Toast Titanium 6.1.1. Has the ability to schedule, record, any combination of video you can put through composite and S-Video inputs and give you a nice MPEG-2 muxed output. You can edit out sections of video and save clips which can later be remastered as their own menuitems with Toast. Plus it lets you watch the video live. The first part of the encoding is done all on the box itself. I would though use its preset encoding levels, as the customized encoding video has a tendency to turn out choppy.

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