Betacam SP recorder/player

I'm looking to buy a Betacam SP player/recorder, but I need one that includes a firewire port so that I can capture/record video from/to my Mac Pro. Can anyone recommend one that might be priced under or around $5,000? I have searched online for one but am not having much luck. Also, is there anything I need to know about the machine that might make it tricky to work with FCP? I appreciate any info anyone has to offer, as I have no experience with this type of equiptment.

We don't have a choice in the tape format...our hosts
do satellite interviews over the phone, and the
company sends us the recorded video of the celebrity
that they interviewed on Betacam tapes...they do not
offer us a choice, and believe me, I have asked.
If the company sending you the tapes is nearby you could record their feed to your equipment, or get the sattelite info and bring the feed in yourself at a local TV station and tape to your format. If it's up on sattelite, it's obtainable to anyone with the coordinates. Is that a possibility for you?

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