Streaming from a TV


I am setting up a nice system in an audio/video room.  I am trying to think thru how I'm going to play movies and music thru a TV with a nice DAC.  I will probable stream music through a streamer when I am listening to music but I would like to take advantage of my nice equipment when watching movies.   Is there any streamers that I can run the toslink from my TV thru that will clean the  signal and maybe change the input to the DAC like a DDC.  I know I can run straight to a DAC if it has Toslink but it won't sound as good.  How good would the Denafrips Gaia be if I just streamed from a laptop and ran the TV and laptop thru it?  Would I need this if I get a really high end DAC?  II know there are plenty of people doing this same thing so let me know what you are doing in your setup.  

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@mapman Thank you for the info on eARK.  I haven't seen any eARK inputs on streamers or DAC's.  I already have a SMc Audio preamp so I need a streamer only or a DAC. 

I had thought about running Toslink from the TV to a Denafrips DDC like a GAIA and then a nice DAC.  Can you replace a good streamer with a good DDC and not have a great source like a TV or laptop?

@1happyman I actually have an LD OLEED also.  Are you using the DAC in the A8 or do you have an external DAC?

@mswale I would love to run the signal  thru the  TV on everything but I don't think the signal will be the greatest.  I have an exceptional Smc Audio preamp being built from Scratch.  So it will need to go straight to a DAC or thru a streamer.