Why won't you let PC users view HDV?

I'm a film student in New York who can't afford to buy a Macbook Pro when I've had the same PC laptop for so many years. I've been given an assignment that requires me to shoot on HDV, and I spent the time and money on HDV tapes and filming this shoot using HD cameras. Our lab (with very strict openings with only 2 HDV decks) uses Final Cut Pro - so I spent my time logging and capturing about 8 tapes of footage.
So I went home and went through the trouble of getting the Mac data system to communicate with my PC data system so my hard drive would even let me see that I HAD the footage - now that I finally do, I see that only my DV footage works! (one tape)
Now, I know you'll tell me to export it in H.264, but I simply do not have the time now nor would I have had the time to do so in the short hours of lab availability - not to mention it's something I wouldn't (and didn't) think of since captured DV footage works with no problem!
This is a widespread problem - not all people don't have the luxury of Final Cut Pro and a Macbook Pro. Why can't I edit the footage I shot?
So I ask:
PLEASE MAKE THIS CODEC AVAILABLE (FOR PURCHASE, IF YOU'RE SO INCLINED)
Thanks.

NoveltyMC, try not to get too upset with Kirk. He knows more about QuickTime than probably the rest of us in this forum put together, but I'm pretty sure he's not a video production guy, and he probably misunderstood what you're really doing...
Again, the real question is, what codec is it?
Experimentally, have you tried downloading VLC (http://www.videolan.org) on the Windows side to see if it can handle the HDV material? Internally, HDV is, if I remember correctly, MPEG-2 based, so an MPEG-2 codec ought to be able to handle it, provided that Final Cut did not transcode the file into ProRes or Intermediate.
If you open the file using QuickTime, and do a Get Info on it, what is the listed codec? Is it listed as HDV, or as Intermediate or ProRes?
If VLC can handle the files, then I expect it might be as simple as installing the MPEG-2 component for QuickTime, but I hate to recommend that without knowing for certain that it will actually work.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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