Video is one thing, but this is also about docking this little computer with an external monitor. To present anything N9 does on a big screen. -N8 has HDMI for entertainment purpose -E7 has HDMI for business presentation reasons -N9 has no HDMI, maybe for design reasons but almost certain to reserve the candy for the WP7 version. As far as video is concerned: in my case N8 saved the day when divx playback from Snow Leopard OSX + VLC was too shoppy. N8 provided much better decoding, colors and nicer subtitle rendering, no tweaking needed. TV video decoding being limited to (Pana plasma 2009)