Can Keynote play PC Powerpoint slides and video?

Hello, in our office we're a PC-only environment and we have a standard Powerpoint presentation that we show to clients. The presentation contains normal text and images, but also a few video files.
We bought an iPad 2 ideally to use for off-site presentations and to impress clients. While it was easy to bring the slideshow portion of the presentation over (e.g. convert to PDF), I'm unable to get the video files to work.
All i've tried so far is to convert the video files into MP4 files using the iPad codec/bitrate requirements and embedding it into a PDF. On the iPad 2, the PDF doesn't play the videos, just shows the placeholder slide.
I'm open to purchasing 'Keynote for iPad' if required to get this to work (or other apps like GoodReader), but I do not want to purchase a Mac for the sole purpose of getting the presentation to work.
Before I purchase the app, can anybody confirm whether it's possible to use the Keynote app for a slideshow presentation containing video? Would I be able to import my presentation easily (slides + video)?
I've read elsewehre that high-quality videos can only be brought into the iPad using Keynote on a Mac. Is this true? I need my video files to remain at high-resolution.
I don't mind doing minor adjustments (e.g. re-importing/placing video files) but I do not want to re-create the entire slideshow.
Thanks!

1) Powerpoint can only use video formats that are not compatible on the iPad
That would surprise me as the formats supported by the iPad are fairly common movie file types.  But I don't use PowerPoint so I'm not a good authority there.  Hit up the PowerPoint forum to find out what formats PowerPoint for Windows supports: http://support.microsoft.com
I read (https://discussions.apple.com/message/11684522#11684522) that any video files imported seperately are re-encoded into a lower quality.
This thread refers to adding video to the presentation in Keynote once the presentation is on the iPad.  In your scenario you are pre-adding the video to the PowerPoint Presentation while it is still on the computer.  Keynote for iPad does not modify video.  You modify the video to make Keynote able to use it.
iPad supports "H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second" (from the link I provided in my prior post).  This is "high quality".
Given the highly specific nature of what you want to use Keynote for, perhaps take a copy of your preso to an Apple Retail Store and try it out.
One additional thought would be to simply export your presentation out of Power Point as a Quicktime file (good question for the powerpoint forum) and then putting the movie on the iPad and playing it as a movie.  You won't have the ability to advance the movie frame by frame as you would with a slideshow, but it would have a play / pause button like any movie.
Best of luck!

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