In my own opinion you are making things 10 times more complicated then the truthfully are. I own both an ipod video and a 30gb zune. I believe they are both amazing products although my ipod broke after about 5 months and my zune wont load some of my mp4 files. I do thank the author for their opinion, though i think it is miss placed.
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