Excuse my ignorance but I have just attached a Mac Mini to my Beovision 6-26 with the dolby 5.1 surround sound card.  I am currently using the standard mini jack to phone cable however I believe that if I use a digital output I will get better sound quality?

Firstly I'm not sure which input on the TV will work with the PC input as the only digital  inputs I see are INPUT 1 which is listed as digital input for equipment connected to the AV socket and INPUT 2 - for digital input from equipment connected to the V.TAPE socket?

Then I need to get one of these

http://www.svideo.com/toslinkcoax1.html

and

http://www.svideo.com/spdif3.html

and

Toslink to Coax Adapters are selling for mere 10 Euro at Ebay. You can safely go with a budget version. It just convert the plug type without affecting the sound.

 a good tip regarding converters:


If you have the space for it, go and buy an old DAT- or DCC-Recorder.  Most of them can act as a DA-Converter in Record-Standby-Mode.

This makes sure that you REALY have a high quality signal conversion!

There is no such thing as "high quality" signal conversion in TOS to COAX converters. It is digital-digital. It just changes the way of connection. There is no need to use a bulky recorder for that task that can be done with a 5 euro cigar pack size box. ;-)

Exactly, although you can debate that impedance matching may play a small role in making sure every bit gets through.