Looking to finish up my system with a capture card

[shilala]

Hi Guys,
I've been lurking around here for a couple months and looked over a lot of posts and haven't seen what I'm looking for.
I'm trying to find the best solution for recording TV shows and burning them to dvd-rw. I also want the capability of recording my old video tapes, and capturing minidv (hope to get into a canon gl-2 on down the road).
I'd like to be able to playback from my computer to whatever I choose : monitor, tv, widescreen, plasma.
That's my immediate need, and I know it's pretty cut and dried.
But...
My goal is to make some sense of Adobe Premiere on down the road a bit with my ultimate goal being to create, author and burn widely compatible (USA) dvd's to support a line of incubators we sell.
I've been looking over Scenarist, ReelDVD and a bunch of other brutally painful software as well.
I'm not in need of a real-time editing solution like Matrox, being that whatever we produce will be short blurbs, a half hour being a long video. I can stand the wait and save a few thousand bucks. Creating a menu for the dvd is very important because that point would allow someone to choose from a number of different products and view that particular video.
All that is another story, but should help someone to make a suggestion based on my end goal. Might save me a screwing by missing something that would be obvious to a guy who actually knows something
I've added my computer details to my profile to help someone make an educated suggestion.
Aside from the capture card, I plan to add at least another 512mb of memory. I have to slide that in under the wife's radar though. This capture card will probably be the straw that breaks the camel's back, but I've been bouncing it off her for quite awhile to smooth the track.
I've been looking pretty hard at the Hauppauge PVR-350. If I should be looking harder at something else, I'd love to hear about it.
Thanks for all your time, I sure appreciate it!!!
Scott

[WuphonsReach]

For analog capture, make sure you get something with hardware locking between the video/audio streams. (e.g. the Canopus products, possibly the higher-end Hauppauges?)

Other then that, search the forums and look on the left under Capture Cards.