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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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fastfreight
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Great Summary @mapman !  Certainly eARC over HDMI can carry the higher resolutions and formats, and can be very smart and clever when hooking components.  But I have had issues with incompatibility on some TV's.  For my simple video watching, Toslink direct from TV to DAC or Streamer works great for killer 2 channel with imaging that bests many center channel set ups; and it is bomb proof. 

@glennewdick  I see little advantage of converting Toslink to HDMI, unless you are missing the Toslink digital input.  Am I missing something?

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