Home Media Center and the MAC

When will there be a MAC version of the Home Media Center????

That's a problem
You can increase the font size on the Desktop, you can increase the dock size, you can increase the font size in browser, but you CAN'T increase the size of the menu bar and menu items.
Can also zoom in (System Preferences -> Universal Access -> Seeing -> Zoom -> On
But that makes a) the display very pixelated and b) you have to scroll around through the content.
Would be nice if Apple would make the GUI of Lion resolution independent scaleable

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