I Want My Mac TV

John Markoff, who writes for a little periodical you may have heard of,

thinks that Apple may be aiming for the living room. Apple is a company in transition. It is no longer just a computer company (when was the last time you heard someone mention the company by its official name 'Apple Computer)
but increasingly it is a consumer electronics company.

The Mac will remain a central part of Apple's strategies, but why not want a Mac in every living-room?  More people watch television than create newsletters after all. The Mac mini seems to be Apple first tentative step towards a set top box, or media server, to become the center of your media life.

Interestingly, to quote Markoff, 'In an interview after his presentation, Mr. Jobs demurred. The problem, he suggested,
was not that Mac TV was not a good idea, but that the cable companies are monopolies. But he did not close the door entirely.'