Monitor and i/o hardware advice for fcp6 editor

I am a videographer who mostly creates content for the web. I have an upcoming project for local broadcast and would like to get a calibrated video monitor for editing. Can anyone advise on a monitor and other hardware for someone on a budget. Matrox? Ideally it would be a flat screen monitor that isnt too big.
I shoot DVCPRO HD (hpx170) to p2 cards, then log and transfer to FCP 6. I keep my media on a 4TB esata enclosure. I have a G5 dual 2.7 mac powerPC and will probably upgrade to a new intel tower when they come out in June. Presently I don't have the need to capture uncompressed HD but wouldn't mind having the ability to do so if possible. The HPX170 doesnt have an hdmi out, so I don't think I could do so with a matrox. Is it possible to get uncompressed HD out of the HPX thru HD/SDI into a mac g5 and fcp6? or an intel macbook pro?
thanks for any help
power mac g5 dual 2.7 osx 10.5.8 fcp 6.0.4 4TB esata enclosure

For reference, I have the same G5 dual 2.7 PowerPC tower, FCP6 and shoot DVCProHD to P2 (An HPX500 for me). My research findings were that neither the AJA I/O HD or the Matrox solutions will work with a PowerPC for HD - we both need to upgrade to Intel machines for that. Both my tower and my Intel macBookPro work great with my AJA I/O for uncompressed SD, but as we know, HD is another beast all together.
For what it's worth, I don't think that outputting material RECORDED to P2 as DVCProHD will give you anything by "uncompressing" it - DVCProHD is 4:2:2 8-bit and won't get any better... (live feed from a camera may be another matter).
Bottom line - Both the Matrox and AJA solutions have been getting great reviews with Intel machines, I guess the writing is on the wall for us!

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