how do you capture HDTV on your computer?

[5489]

i have this smallville episode captured in HDTV, and the quality was amazing. how would i go about capturing with this quality?

 

[Excelsior]

Buy an HDTV tuner/capture PCI card. Such as this one.

 

[5489]

wow that is expensive! anything cheaper than that?

 

[Richdog]

I was interested in one of these too, did'nt realize they were so god damn expensive! :Q