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I own the Panasonic PV-Gs19. This is a sweet little camera for $300.
Manual shutter speed settings to 1/6000. 24x zoom. Lots of settings.
I bought a SIIG PCMIA firewire 1394 card with Ulead video editing software for $50 (for my laptop). The combo works great.
I also use the V1 home addition (free download).

I believe the problem is with Quicktime. I open the AVI recordings in Ulead , V1 or Windows Media Player and they are perfect. Not so in Quicktime (blurry at 600x800 not sure why).