DIRECTV Satellite 4K questions?

No. If you want 5 4K TVs, you’ll need an HS17 receiver and five C61K receivers. There is no such thing as a C41K, only the regular wired C41 (not 4K) and the wireless non-4K C61W.

You could also get the HR54. However, by doing so, you’ll be unable to watch more than 3 4K TVs at the same time since that would take too many tuners away from the HR54. It is built for 5, and after 3 4K clients take three tuners (one tuner for each 4K client), the leftover two tuners for the HR54 must be kept for features like PiP that take up two tuners.

For your setup, I think an HS17 and those five C61K clients is most adequate. As a note, the HS17 itself is NOT a TV like the HR54 is. Because of this, the HS17 needs 5 clients. 

@onalswina 

Do you already have DirecTV or this is a new install?

The 3rd generation Genie (HR54) would go on a TV itself. It does not provide 4K, though is a requirement for a 4K setup. The 4K requirements updated when it was too far into production.

The only 4K model is C61K (there is no C41K). This is a Mini Genie Client. Has no tuners or recording space of its own. Takes all that from the main Genie.

The Genie Has 5 tuners. Keeps 2 to itself for Picture in Picture (PiP). That means only 3 Clients can be used at the same time. As that is up to 4 TVs at most (Genie and 3 Mini Genies), it is not ideal for a 5 TV setup. Also the HR54 only supports a single TV using a 4K channel at a time, not matter how many 4K Clients you have.

The Genie-2 (HS17) would be a considered alternative. It is a Headless Server tower, meaning it doesn't go on a TV itself. This would allow you to have the 4K Client on each TV. It is 7 tuners and 2TB space (compared to 5 tuners and 1TB of HR54), giving you more capability for a Client-only setup.

However, the Genie-2 forbids regular HDDVRs (which have 2 tuners and 500GB recording space each). This hard caps your system. There are only a few channels in 4K, plus some PPVs.

Personally, I wouldn't worry about getting a 4K Client on every TV because of the limited content. And I prefer a Genie with HDDVRs to get the most reliability and capability. But those HDDVRs haven't been made in years so is not as easy to get anymore.

I apologize, just realized I missed a key point.

The Genie-2 (HS17) only allowing clients, does allow you to have the 4K capable Mini Genie (C61K) on each TV. However, only 2 TVs at a time may use a 4K channel. That means you could potentially have all 5 TVs capable of the 4K programming, but only two of them enjoying it at any given moment.

The HR54 can only stream 4K to 1 4K TV at a time. The HS17 can only stream 4K to 2.