Possibly ending video production with a Mac

Got a dilemma here. After several years of shooting videos with various camcorders and eventually editing with Final Cut and producing DVDs with DVD SP I think I may have run my course the Mac as the means to produce video work.
I have been thinking about getting a newer HD camcorder, the one that seems to appeal is the Panasonic TM700 Full HD 1920x1080p (50p) Camcorder. I have had 3 demos with this and its wonderful. The problem is that according to the sales assistant he didn't think that the Mac using FCS2 will capture from the TM700 at full res (1920*1080p).
Does anyone know if this is true?.
Add to that the ongoing problem of no blu-ray support from Apple I'm beginning to wonder if I'm finally going to have sell my soul to the devil and go PC.
I have never understood what the point in having all this wonderful HD product on FCS when it can't be bounced down to the best available consumer format (blu-ray) so that it can be viewed on my fabulous Pioneer HDTV.
I have heard that Adobe Encore will author blu-ray , is this so?. It looks so expensive though.
I would appreciate anyone's general thoughts on this.

2 things that will probably be essential are:
1. You must be using a mac with an Intel processor.
2. You must have at least Final Cut Pro 6 or Final Cut Express 4 to ingest and edit AVCHD. I don't know if this Panasonic is that or HDV. If it is HDV, then no problem - no intermediary codecs, etc.
Technology continues to change rapidly. One just has to keep up with the ramifications as far as hardware, Op Sys platforms and applications are concerned. if you do need to Upgrade, check Adobe Premiere out, it runs on both mac and PCs, and actually has to 'try harder" to please since they don't manufacture hardware. I use both as well as Avid.
I'd actually Google this as well as trying here.
Good Luck -
B. Slim

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