I just want to thank you for your help but as you know I am new at all this and I am trying to understand it all but i still have a few questions as stupid as they may sound. but 1] is how do i know what the nearest mirror is to download on the media player that you have talked about and 2] could you tell me the best format to use when taking a movie that I have downloaded to put onto a DVD. I download the following avi, mpeg and mpg. Will all these download or burn to a DVD so that we can watch them on our DVD player? Once again thank you so much for all the help that you have given me................................