I googled for this but I don't even know what to search for.

I have a Sony miniDV camera and I wondered if there's anyway to set it to send video directly to my 500gb SATA external harddrive?

The camera of course has firewire out as well as RCA out. I guess I'm looking for a way to:
  1. Send composite video out via RCA to an intermediate unit that will somehow transfer it to video data and write it to the harddrive via firewire or USB2.
  2. Or... send the video out via firewire directly to the harddrive or via an intermediate device


I'm guessing I need some sort of go-between hardware.

So, any ideas?