Mac mini - audio/video connections

[Alex_L]

Friend has just bought a mac mini and wants to hook it up to a tv/home cinema

Which is the better way to go cable wise as top options seem to exist on the apple store:

mini displayport -> dvi -> hdmi adaptor
mini dvi -> dvi -> hdmi adaptor

The other question was around getting a digital audio signal out of the mini to run into an av receiver he has, what sort of cable is he looking at? or is it possible to get hdmi audio out of the mini?

thanks

 

[Alex_L]

So sounds like mini dvi -> dvi -> hdmi is the way forward for video.

For getting surround sound out, what sort of optical cable would they need?