Xbox 360 Screen Capture

I was wondering, what is the most effective way to take screen captures of a game I'm playing on my TV (high resolution, preferably), and place it on my computer for my website?
I'm using a Macbook.

I use one of the Eye TV Hybrid devices - it has s-video/composite inputs as well as the HDTV digital and analog TV signals.
The manual says that you can use this arrangment to record from your game console (they claim that the delay through the device is sufficiently small to allow you to play the game using the computer as the screen). I've not done this myself but I have used it to record from my VHS player - not the same resolution you are after (but that it the 'fault' of the recorder) and the process works very well.
Susan

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