PS-it is pretty easy, though fairly time consuming, to convert video files for iPod--I've got two iPods that I save to give the kids when we travel, and I've converted cartoons, movies, home videos, and episodes of TV shows that have been downloaded from network sites--and even when they are in a useable format, they are usually so big that they'd eat up most of the memory on a Nano-incidentally, the nano is the iPod to get--it is about the size of the stick of gum that used to come with baseball cards and can hold enough tunes, games, and videos to keep a kid busy from NY to LA-just remember to keep it charged!