I haven't had any eye straining issues with my 808. Ive watched a full length movie and 6 episodes of house on it without thinking "Hey this screen is too small". A bit amazing really...I never thought I would actually spend more time watching movies and tv shows in this thing than listening to music. Anyway, Im not disappointed that I bought this, 280 bucks in Hong Kong, the Nano is 250 for the same storage space and 30 bucks for less features and a player that no one I know has is nice. You could say you spend more for the wow factor. Plus the headphones are nice too. Very nice.