you can play .m4v videos. I just took all of my music videos from itunes and dragged them over to the nook color and they work. For the jailbreaking thing is called rooting on the nook. I am going to wait to root mine until the new update comes out to see if it is android 2.2 with some kind of market place. I don't remember when the update is supposed to come out.I just figured out that I can go to smashwords.com and download a book from the nook color and it works great. I got a bunch of free books that way. I got lazy of sideloading for a while lol.Hope your wife like the nook color
