Setting up a Production Monitor

I'm looking to add a production monitor to my FCP setup in addition to two monitors. I have access to a Canon XL1 but don't actually own a camera or deck yet. My question is, how can I have a production monitor hooked up to my computer without a camera or deck involved? Is there a video card that I need to purchase? Am I going about this whole thing incorrectly?
I'm thinking of getting:
JVC TMH-150CGU 15-Inch Color Production Monitor with 750 Lines, 16:9 and 4:3 Aspect Switch, NTSC and PAL Systems
Does anyone have experience with these monitors? Are there any special considerations I'm overlooking?
I work on short to feature length movies - nothing for broadcast right now but of course I'd like to do things as professionally as possible. I'm learning. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Just to say that we originally had an Aurora card and had HUGE problems.
We work in PAL and often in the DV codec but when we monitored in component there were horrible quality issues. The dealer told us that things had been missed in development with the card. (Ouch...)
Also we had quite a few stability problems and they only went away when we took the card out. Snag was that there was no uninstall programme and it was a major pain to get the Aurora software off our system.
Now running an AJA Io and everything looks great and our system is as solid as a very solid thing.
Just done a 10-bit uncompressed project and it looks fantastic.
As we're filling up our PCI slots with firewire and USB things it's actually quite nice not to use one up with a video card.
That said, I've an editor friend who uses Decklink and speaks very highly of it so those would be the two choices for me...
LEE

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