Just looking at the Video Ipod and the Creative Zen Vision. No doubt the Ipod is small but the Zen is able to play Divix plus the image quality "seems" better. There is also the Archos AV500 which can record too from your TV/satellite box. So what gives the Ipod Video the edge?

Try use Videora Ipod converter to convert the avi files and when you drag the file to library make sure the title is not too long otherwise it won't go into your library