Load Mini-DV through a Camcorder S-Video Output

I have an old camcorder that only has output via S-Video connection. I have an iMac that is about 5 months old. I have iLife '09 and I want to load my old video footage from these Mini-DV tapes to my Mac. How can I do this? I have searched the web and found products such as video input adapters,
http://www.greennet.ca/video-input-adapter-ieee-1394-firewire-external-ntscpalse cam-p-339705.html?ref=3&currency=USD#Review
, is this how I need to go about doing it? I am really not sure and everywhere I look it seems to be a little pricey. Thanks for your help.

The EyeTV Hybrid will accept an S-Video connection.
The EyeTV Hybrid will bring in the clips as MPEG2, so they must be converted before editing in iMovie.
From the EyeTV Hybrid, you can convert the clips to h.264 for editing.
For somewhat better quality, you can use MPEG Streamclip (which is free) and the Quicktime MPEG2 Playback Component ($20) to convert the MPEG2 to Apple Intermediate Codec.

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