[texanpenguin]

Windows Media Center Edition is great (for some people, with some hardware). It's one of those things that, if slightly tweaked, should have been an Apple invention (along with TV-tuner cards in the 20 inch iMacs).

I think Apple is really missing the boat with this sort of thing. I don't think there are many people who don't envision a future where we only have one set of screens throughout our house, which serve the purpose of TV, computer and telephone/videophone. With their Mac minis there is a perfect device for plugging in to AV equipment, but the software just isn't there!

There are groups on SourceForge etc., like the Mac Media Center group who are trying to develop something (anything) that can do what Apple should have made the Mac mini do to begin with.