More samples:

http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/review-75-PowerShot+TX1%3A+Getting+started+with+the+first+Canon+HD+camcorder.html

I've seen low light footage from a canon G7 640 x 480 that is a vast improvement from the TX1 PMA clip. Unless I do all my video footage in bright light I don't think I can call the TX1 video HD at all just yet.
Still hoping there are some manual override features to improve its low light performance?

After putting the samples onto DVD and watching them on an SD TV I must say that I'm quite impressed, as long as the auto focus doesn't hunt all the time. Even the 1280 x 720 LP setting looks good - for me that means I'll get 26 mins out of each clip max :)

I copied the link into a few forums thinking that some people interested in the TX1 samples may only monitor 1 or 2 forums etc.

I will try what you did with putting it to DVD, did you notice the sound in the video that I mentioned?
I'm still interested in the TX1 also :)

This link shows a Japanese review of the TX1 with sample video's.

http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20070307/zooma298.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dwatch%2Bimpress%2Bavwatch%26num%3D50%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26rls%3DGGGL,GGGL:2006-17,GGGL:en

I would like others opinion on the video samples in HD with the girl walking through the bush/forrest - it seems like the auto focus is hunting all over the place (maybe face detection was on and it was hunting to detect and focus on a face??). The 640 x 480 clip almost seemed to focus smoother?
Secondly I've noticed a synthetic sound pop up in different places in a few of the video samples (sounds like cutlery dropped onto a plate). I'm hoping it is from pressing a button on the camera and not some camera mechanism noise being recorded??

Also the large 271MB sample video compilation is quite jerky when trying to film the girl walking through the street in my opinion.
Hopefully steves-digicams or dpreview will do a review soon.

Have fun trying to decipher the review or translate it :)

Bear in mind that there is a 4Gb single file size limit even if you have a 32Gb SDHC card installed (due to AVI format limitations I believe).
So in the future you may be able to record 104 minutes of HD video to that card, but you will have to stop and restart your recording 8 times to get it with 8 individual video files. I can think of many times where stopping and restarting like that would definetly have seen me miss some very important footage (or at least cause an editing headache stitching it all together).
You would need a powerful PC to be editing multiple 4Gb video files together like that, imagine the time needed also.
I've seen this marketed as a HD camera for travellers - on average most travellers wanting video footage if away from their PC or DVD Recorder for a few weeks will end up with pockets full of SDHC cards each with multiple's of 13 min's of HD video.

Sounds like a travellers nightmare compared to Mini DV or HDD video storage. I have a great camcorder already, I just want something that will do similar quality video that I can put in my pocket and take great stills with.
Unfortunately the TX1 is like a car manufacturer marketing a high performance car that runs out of fuel after driving it for 15 mins.