I'll answer even though you hate my guts...lol!
The mac mini is what me and my wife have running our entertainment unit...we have a 2010 model (so ours has the optical drive), it is running OSX 10.8 and is currently controlling our entire entertainment network (3 hard drives full of movies, TV shows and what not), is used constantly on TV to watch YouTube, Netflix and other online streaming video feeds. We play a fair amount of games on it online and obviously its used to browse the internet and stuff (which is cool to do on a big screen, especially when you're showing pictures and stuff off to family or friends). It's connected to our main plasma TV via HDMi cable and was easy and effortless to setup for 1080p (a little box pops up on your top menu bar with all the settings for TV's you could ever need).
Ours has 1 HDMi input, 4 USB inputs (but we have a splitter which made things easier), and some audio connectors that don't get used (we run ours through an HDMI cord from the TV to the surround sound so we can get digital sound via Optical audio, which the Mac Mini doesn't offer). So far, it's been awesome, and we've had no problems out of it...it still has the original 320GB hard drive in it but that hardly ever gets used because there are 3 hard drives connected to it that are each 2TB...lol. It has a magic mouse and keyboard, both of which are phenomenal for everything except really precise graphic arts stuff (my wife does a good bit of post production video work and has to use a much more reliable and detail oriented mouse to get anything going wirelessly).
To add, it has a very good WiFi setup (and can connect to 5Ghz networks easily), all of our internet gadgets are in the same entertainment unit so ours is hardwired to the router, makes for better connections but they were perfect wirelessly too.
All in all, it's been a little trooper, and i can't imagine our entertainment unit without it...we were planning to replace it with a newer one, but haven't really had a need to because we've experienced really zero slow down on it (this might be an issue if you were looking to use it as a primary computer for your home)...it's also nice to have the optical drive right on the unit, but i think the USB powered optical drive from Apple is like $50 online if you look hard enough...so no big money to add that.