Recording Live TV in DV Quality

Is there a way to watch and record live televsion in .dv quality video on my Mac? I was looking for a hardware, software combo? I looked at the El Gato stuff, but it doesn't seem to be of the highest quality video. 1 to 2 GB's would record one hour of high quality video on their stuff. Where as one hour of dv video is almost fifteen GB's.
I am running the composite cables from my DirecTV to my EyeTv Box (it is at least 6 years old), but the picture is not that good. I have a Sony digitizer and could watch tv through iMovie, but you can't watch video you are importing in fullscreen and I want to be able to schedule recordings, etc.
Is there some high end stuff out there that lets you watch and record in the highest quality video? If dv quality is not possible, it has to be very close or I will just stick with what I have.

just to mention a few tech hurdles...:
* TV isn't broadcasted in "dv quality"; it is (highly) compressed, esp. stuff via sattelite
* TV, fullscreen , fills just a fraction of you Mac's monitor... 640x480...
* older converters as the Formac offers direct conversion into dv codec...
* or, kind of workaround: connect miniDV camera to some TV tuner...

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