Software/hardware to use iMac as a TV and video recorder?

Forgive me for asking her, but I could not (easily) find a forum more likely to give me an answer than this one.
I have a DirecTV satellite receiver near to my iMac 2.8 GHz with 4 Gb RAM and i would like to be able to use my iMac as a TV monitor so that I can watch TV on it. I'd also need to be able to record from this satellite receiver.
Today I bought Elgato's Video capture, form a local Apple store, but this doesn't meet my needs (it only lets me watch TV in a small window, while it is recording the picture to a file on my iMac.
Does what I am looking for exist? To summarize, here are the features i am looking for:
Watch live TV on my iMac, using the yellow, red & white RCA connectors, in either full screen or in a window.
Can record what is being viewed to a file.
Is able to deal with both regular definition and HD.
Thanks.
Peter

You need the ElGato EyeTV Hybrid. This works great with a modern Mac. If you have a Power PC chip, you might need another ElGato model that offloads graphics processing.
Check the ElGato forums to see how it works with DirectTV. It works great over the air for HD channels with a rabbit ears antenna. But some cable channels are scrambled, and the ElGato forums should help you sort through that.

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