Digital Conversion help!!

[Colorado Rick]

I have a Sony Handicam that really does a great job for us. It's compact and lightweight, and we're generally happy with it.

Here's the problem:

It records on a small cassette called a MiniDV.

I can't for the life of me figure out how to convert the tape to a digital format for transfer to the internet.

There is a special slot for a firewire cable to connect, but that will only really hook up to a DVR. Now if I go that far, I am back to square one because I would need to get it off the DVR and onto my pc.

I'm losing valuable hair on this one...

Any suggestions?