Does anybody know if the new mac mini introduced today will do hd audio bitstream?

I'm very interested in the new mac mini that has been unveiled today. I planned to buy one in the past but didn't because it seems that it couldn't do bitstreaming for hd audio (true-hd and dts-hd for example).
As I plan to use it as an htpc with xmbc so this is a feature that is important for me. For what I heard, the last generation of mac mini couldn't not because of the hardware but of a driver issue in mac os x. So I was wondering if that still the case.
Thanks!

The previous model supported multi-channel audio via the HDMI but did not officially support HD audio.
However I seem to recall that XBMC for Mac had already managed to do this on the previous model Mac mini. For clarification since XBMC for Mac managed to do this it would appear the hardware already could do this but Apple have not provided built-in software support for this.
See http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/42798-hd-audio-codec-support/
I could not find a similar statement saying Plex itself supports HD Audio bit-streaming via HDMI.
With regards to the new Mac mini I do not expect there to be any change. That is OS X itself will not support this, Plex will still not support this but I would still expect XBMC for Mac to support this.
PS. The MacBluRayPlayer I feel also does not support this.

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