1st Mac & post - Trying to read/write a NTFS Portable HD

Hi All,
I'm not a naturally literate type of bloke, having to learn this stuff later in life, but I love using computers. Anyway, I've just switched from a PC to a MacBook Pro 15" and now the steep learning curve begins.
The basic setup of the Mac was easy but my first hurdle has been trying to get my MBP to read and write to a NTFS formatted portable HD. The problem is, I have a 2TB HD (also NTFS) full of movies and its connected to a WD TV live. These are all remnants from my PC laptop days but also, most of the people I share movies with have pc's. So I need to be able use my portable HD to move between copying and downloading movies between both formats.
So I've spent hours researching and eventually I purchased some software because of the backup, called Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 9.0.
I have emailed them but haven't received a reply yet and because it isn't an Apple Software product, Apple Care can't help me.
Well the software downloaded successfully and I have read their user manual but I must be missing something.
For instance, the manual says 'Once the driver has been installed you obtain full read/write access to any type of NTFS as if it's Mac OS X-native.
So why is it that when I connect the Portable HD, open it up and can see the movies, when clicking on a movie all that happens is I get a message "You may need to install additional software to open this type of file".
MMM, I thought once the driver was installed, I got full read/write access.
So I was wondering if anyone could help me sort this out. I'd much appreciate anyone's assistance cos I really was hoping I could move on to all the other tasks I need to do in this pc to mac transition phase.
cheers
stacka

Ok, you got access to the drive, but don't have the codec's to read the file formats.
1: Download and install the free Perian.
http://perian.org/
2: If that doesn't quite cut the mustard then there's Flip4Mac
http://www.telestream.net/flip4mac-wmv/overview.htm
3: Finally there is VLC, plays anything just about
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Later on, if you ever get the drive empty for some reason. Use OS X's Disk Utility to format the drive exFAT, this file format is completely interexchangable with modern Windows and OS X systems (Snow Leopard).
You can also use just FAT (msdos) format, but it has a 4GB file size limit, which isn't good for video, but is compatible with older Windows XP and OS X 10.5 and below machines.
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