my iriver (got it in singapore)plays video (badly though) is 40 gig and I got it for about 700$nz, which is maybe 3504 us. this was a year ago btw, so it's pretty good.
besides ITUNES SUCKS, and so does making you pay like 70$ for a case, which everyone else gives with it, and having to buy the charger and docking port seperately for extra, thats just fucking bullshit. Do they still do that? because last time I was in the store and I saw that, I couldn't belive that people would support that.
on the whole itunes thing, iriver just makes a folder in 'my computer' and you can just drag anything in, and do whatever. seems so much better..