First up:
http://www.dc1000.org
is a website I used to visit for info about the DC1000 and DC2000 cards. You can still get a hold of one of those cards, and if you don't mind using Premiere 6.0 you'll get realtime MPEG2. Use Quu's guide on this site to convert ripped MPEG2 streams to streams readable in realtime by Premiere.
You might be able to find one of those cards pretty cheap on eBay or something since I think they're technically no longer supported, but I'd do some research into it first or ask Quu what he thinks.
Neither of the current Matrox RT products support MPEG2 for realtime editing. One allows capture of MPEG2, and both allow outputting in MPEG2, but neither one allows you to edit in MPEG2 natively.
I even checked their Digisuite series of products even though they're probably way out of any of our price ranges and a couple of them support realtime MPEG2 <i>I-Frame</i> editing, which means they capture all keyframes, so if you just took an IBP stream and dumped it on your drive it wouldn't work.
So unless Canopus has a product that'll do it, it looks like you have to go to Pinnacle's older products, since none of their current consumer products will do it.


