Capture card options

I recently upgraded my desktop to a 2.5ghz quad core machine with 4gigs of ram and am trying to decide on what capture card to get. I will be capturing hdv from my Sony A1 and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction of a reasonably priced quality card.
Any suggestions? Thanks.

Copying files around at the file system level will not affect the quality of the contents of the files.
Cheers
Eddie
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