Need a fifth additional box - is Sky Stream good enough?

[Lunno]

We have a large house with a Sky Q box and four additional boxes in various rooms. We have just added an annexe (as extension of main house) and would like an additional box - rather than removing existing boxes from other rooms. Sky seems to have an arbitrary limit of four additional boxes. I have been told we cannot connect another main Sky Q box to our existing satellite dish. Can this really be correct? The suggested solution is a more expensive Sky Stream package (plus additional equipment). I'm concerned the picture quality would not be as good - plus the impact on our WIFI (although luckily we do have Sky Fibre). Would appreciate views and/or any other ideas. Thanks 

[PandJ2020]

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@Lunno wrote:

Sky seems to have an arbitrary limit of four additional boxes.

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It's a hardware restriction (Remember Q was released around 2016) and there are no plans to increase it.

Indeed, although you can have 4 additional boxes you can only run 2 concurrently for live/recorded TV.

I believe if you switch to Stream then you cannot have a Q contract.  Stream is obviously quite a different product (no recording).

[Lunno]

Thanks for this. I hadn't appreciated you can't record on Sky Stream so that's great to know. I appreciate this is a #firstworldproblem, but the subscription is so eye wateringly expensive these days, the lack of flexibility is a bit frustrating