Hooking up an HDMI cable

Hi All,
I have a new 17" macbook pro w/ thunderbolt port. I keep reading that I can hook up this laptop to my HDMI tv. The adapters I see on this site are all minidisplay to HDMI. I can't seem to find the mini display port on my macbook pro.
Could someone help me figure this out.
Thanks,
Mike

jeffmr wrote:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110627171232AAnXagr
You really need to chill dude.
And you need to read more carefully
Your statement was "I think the minidisplay port and thunderbolt are interchangeable"
A thunderbolt peripheral connected to an MDP port is not supported at all, and MDP peripheral connected to a thunderbolt port may be supported but there are caveats even to that.
Dude

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