Do it. Do it! I recently switched from pc to mac and I wish I'd done it sooner.
I have a mac mini running as a HTPC to deal with tv recording, dvd watching, music/ipod stuff and a macbook pro for work.
I've used pc's for the last 10-14yrs and whilst they did me proud mac's are a breath of fresh...
As Olly_K mentions it means you're missing the codec used to encode the video. I never managed to download a single codec successfully through media player so ditched it in favour of VLC. I've never had a problem playing any vids through VLC and I haven't needed to download any individual...
Bought a rio carbon for the missus last July. She hasn't had a problem with it, other than the daft issue with certain headphones shorting on the metal of the unit. It's also quite robust, she took it round the world and it's still in one piece. You can copy music across to it in Windows...
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