You can download the manual for your camcorder (in English

) from
Here. This should help with useing the 'colour night view'.
To connect the camcorder to a PC via USB for capture of still images or for webcam type use then you will need the CD that is supplied with the cam. I would assume you can also download the software drivers from the Panasonic web site but did not check!
To connect the cam to a PC for full quality video capture you need to use firewire (aka DV-out, iLink, ieee1394) and as long as you have a firewire port installed on the PC no further drivers are required by Windows XP.
Mark.
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