Moving to UK from North America - will the xbr-55x900e work?

[Rickrose22]

Hi all, 

I’ll be moving to the UK later this year.  I’m in New York, but the TV was purchased in Canada, and am checking all my devices for compatibility. I am wondering if the xbr-55x900e will be able to work in the UK.  Of course, I’m primarily asking about voltage, but is there anything else I need to be concerned with?

I have it hooked up to an Apple TV here, a PlayStation 4, both by HDMI, and digital rabbit ears.  I don’t have cable - but do enjoy some over the air programming.  

Thank you

[Joe_Dohn]

This is a question best directed to Sony support reps or engineers.

Sony has a handy locator tool for service centres in the UK and Ireland which you can check.

Hope this helps!

- JD

[spannerzone · Accepted solution]

The US specs show it as only 120 volts (does it have a seperate 'wall wart' power adaptor, which could be replaced for a 240volt one) or does power cable go straight into the TV? if yes, the TV likely only accepts 120 volts.

Reception wise, it won't receive any terrestrial broadcasts as we use DVB in the UK and the US system, ATSC, is different and incompatible.

At best, the TV would be a monitor with HDMI inputs... it likely won't accept ANY UK/European signals as often the US TVs are locked to NTSC signals and won't decode the UK/Euro signals from a DVD player, blu ray etc.... HDMI devices might be ok like a Roku, Firestick.... inbuilt aps may work, may not without using a USA based VPN to trick the TV to receive US apps.

My own thoughts are that unless you have a big container coming over and there's space for the TV at no cost, you could bring it but whether it'll be worth while...., otherwise I'd sell it in the US and buy one when you get here, assuming you're not going back to the US any time soon.

With the price of TVs, their inability to work in the US or UK (or vice versa), their power differences and so on usually make it a non starter.

At least TVs are fairly well priced in the UK should you need to buy a new one, plus it'll work with the UK services, terrestrial TV via antenna, online services etc.

[Rickrose22]

Thank you for the clear information about the terrestrial broadcasts, that really helps, I think I will leave it / sell it.

[spannerzone]

You're welcome, hope the move goes smoothly.

[royabrown2]

@Rickrose22 @spannerzone 

Not that I would depart from the advice given by spannerzone, but if the power brick for your TV is 120v only, there are several suppliers in the UK who will sell you a dual 120/240v one for about £60.

I can only think that these must be the standard UK/EU brick for the comparable EU models, as the number of people trying to bring the US models in must be vanishingly small, and as spannerzone said, they will at best work only as an HDMI monitor, and not always even that.

As I found, even the comparable short hop of bringing in a Spanish TV to the UK produced disappointments; the Spanish put out their HD over DVB-T, so their models don’t necessarily have the DVB-T2 needed in the UK to get the HD channels, and I fell foul of this.

UK TVs work fine in Spain, and have no problem with getting Spanish HD on their DVB-T tuners; but the converse is not true.

Sell there, buy here, is the way to go.