well I have been looking at i-pod's with the video play-back, but my problem is I am not going to send my money down the drain with i-tunes. SO myt question is does the i-pod video let you put any video on it as long as it is in the right format? for instance if I wanted to rip one of my movies my computer could I encode it ion m-peg 4 and put it on the i-pod?