An audio forwarding device includes a media interface that is configured to receive a media stream, the media stream includes a video stream and an audio stream, the audio stream being synchronized with the video stream. A display interface is configured to transmit the video stream to a display for display of the video stream, and a wireless data network interface is configured to stream the audio stream in the form of digital data to a mobile computing device over a digital wireless data connection for the mobile computing device to play the audio stream on a headphone interface.