Difference between Apple TV and Front Row?

Right now I have a Mac Mini with Front Row hooked up to our 1080p HDTV. With Front Row we can watch any movies we've downloaded from iTunes and all our home movies on the TV and they look great. I've never used or seen an Apple TV in action. What more does it do than Front Row? Will the HD versions of movies for rent on iTunes only be available for the Apple TV?

So it looks like the the only advantage on having the Apple TV is the HD video rental through iTunes. The pros on the MacMini far outweigh the pros on the Apple TV. It's just a matter of how much I want to be able to rent HD movies from iTunes. The MacMini can totally handle the HD content playback (I shoot HD home movies all the time and play them back on Front Row on our MacMini to the HDTV and it has no problem) so I wonder why they are restricting the HD video rentals to the Apple TV.
And, by the way, you can connect the MacMini via HDMI by getting a DVI to HDMI cable and then taking the audio from the digital audio out. It's the way I have it set up now and it looks and sounds great.

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