All right Doc I've spent a couple weeks now downloading configuring, reading, tweaking and all I can say is the Xbox 360 is one heck of a game console but for what you want to do it just won't cut it.

All this new software (Media Connect) has done is enable people who don't have the Media Center PC/laptop the ability to use it to play music(MP3), see pictures in a slide show but you still can't stream video unless you have the Windows Media software and music is only MP3 so for us Ipod owners you still have to convert all your Itunes downloads to MP3 and since you already have the Ipod you don't need a PC because the Xbox will handle the music from it's USB connection directly from the Ipod.