Apple TV 2 audio - Optical to Analog & other speaker options

I have an the apple tv 2 connected to a monitor with an HDMI to DVI cable. The picture is great but my monitor does not have speakers, nor does it have HDMI or auido out of any sort. I was thinking of using the optical jackon the ATV2 to plug into some speakers, but there are some questions I have about that.
Optical to 3.5mm analog? I have some existing speakers I can use but the input is AUX as a 3.5mm analog headphone jack. I don't know of any cable that converts optical to 3.5mm analog. I think I could get a bunch of converters but that would be expensive and I'm not sure how well it would work. Is there a cable that can do this conversion?
Speakers with optical input? I am considering purchasing speakers that take audio in. This setup is in my bedroom and so I don't want giant speakers and an amplifier. I just need simple speakers or a small soundbar that would take optical in. I was thinking of something like this http://amzn.to/iG1Rw1 but it appears to also need an analog input (RCA in back or analog 3.5mm in front). Do you know of any speakers that are small (hopefully okay sounding) that would take optical or optical mini in (I know an optical toslink to 3.55 optical mini cable exists).
Is there a wireless solution? Because of where my new apple tv setup is placed ideally I would like to have speakers on the other side of the room (then they could be bigger) but the only way I would want to accomplish this is wirelessly. I had a chat with somone ont he apple site and they said that ATV2 will only connect with audio out through a cable (HDMI or optical) not wirelessly.
Anyone have any ideas of what I could do?

Audio over HDMI and optical should be active simultaneously.
If a movie has a Dolby Digital soundtrack this will get output over optical, if not or if a TV Show or music track/video it outputs stereo linear PCM 16 bit and supposedly 48 kHz not 44.1 kHz having decoded any compressed audio track such as AAC or MP3 first.
Check the amp input setting - if set to 5.1 and getting a stereo feed it may not register - maybe try an auto type setting. Odd though as it's working from Sky - same input?
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