The lack of digital audio out does hurt though - if it had that it could just plain replace my occasionally ill-tempered Bravo D1.
it would be cool if it was built in, but supposedly the airport express outputs digital 5.1 and can auto detect if a digital coaxal is hooked up, of couse that another 125$ for the airport express and the 40$ for the audio cable pack, on top of the cost of the macmini, but if your goin the wireless route i guess you could kill multiple birds with one stone....
i think the mini is cool as heck and when its time to upgrade or anyone in my family to upgrade i will aim them towards this thing, most of them have monitors etc already and this is definatly their price point.
what kind of pvr like options do we have on the mac though?
are their other remotes beside the keyspan, and possibly the salling clicker if you have the right phone?
and as far as people wondering about output resolutions, it says it can do HD, so the svid/composite debate will be moot in a few years.
i like to see some comparisons to this thing and some HTPCs price wise and usage wise (dvd playing/recording, pvr, mp3/music playing, etc)