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It doesn't seem that you can order Front Row and the remote seperatly. Seems short sided seeing as the mac mini is the obvious candidate for the remote.

Rabid speculation:

Remember when Apple said that this was "the year of HD"? My dual-1GHz G4 tower doesn't have enough juice to do 1080i in real-time, so I presume the Mac Mini (with only a single G4, up to 1.4GHz) is similarly disinclined. It's entirely possible that the G5's can do it, but I don't really know.

Maybe Apple is saving up a "Mac Mini AV" for when they switch to Intel processors (and/or fancier graphics cards) that can handle HD. They're starting out with content at toy resolutions, mostly to convince Hollywood that FairPlay can work. Then, maybe next year, we'll finally see all of this HD stuff happen for real.