"I'm not saying that they don't work. They do work, but not well enough. Encoding/re-encoding video is over the heads of 90% of the media consuming market."

I didn't encode or re-encode for any of the uses I listed.

For the other question about watching in2tv videos, I don't know anything about them, but using applications such as ORB you can stream stuff from a Windows computer (or there are apps you can use on non-windows computers) on to your N8xx. For example, I streamed stuff from my computer in Agoura Hills, CA, and listened and watched them in a library in Henderson, Nevada. One of them was a movie that I didn't do anything with regard to encoding.

It worked very easily. In fact, I had forgotten I had a movie on my home Windows computer until I was browsing my files from my N800, and suddenly found myself watching an old movie called Out of the Past. Another time I was doing something similar and was suddenly watching that Helen Mirren classic tv drama, Prime Suspect.

And another thing: There seems to be a misunderstanding of what "media" is. When someone says "as far as media playback goes, it sucks," what is that supposed to mean? When you use Rhapsody to play songs, the song quality sucks? I had no problems like that.

I think that you unconsciously think that "media" means "visual media". It doesn't. When you say that "media playback sucks", you are saying that playing mp3 songs sucks, for example. That just isn't true.