*Update 27/7/2017*

We have had an exclusive comment from Sony, sadly it is not good news for the UK, for now.

Sony XBR77A1E 77-Class HDR UHD Smart OLED TV

Sony has announced that some of its Sony Bravia Android TV’s will soon be compatible with Amazon Echo, allowing you to control the TV with your voice via Alexa.

The integration initially will allow:

-Power On / Off

-Change channel

-Change volume

-Change input

-Control playback

The update will be done via a free automatic firmware update released ‘later this month’ with the USA first then UK. Based on previous updates expect it a lot later than ‘later this month’ for the UK.

However unfortunately the added Alexa functionality is only coming to a few select 4K Sony Bravia Android models:

2017 TV models

XBR-77A1E

XBR-65A1E

XBR-55A1E

XBR-75X940E

XBR-75X900E

XBR-75X850E

XBR-65X930E

XBR-65X900E

XBR-65X850E

XBR-55X930E

XBR-55X900E

XBR-55X800E

XBR-49X900E

XBR-49X800E

XBR-43X800E

2016 TV models

XBR-100Z9D

XBR-75Z9D

XBR-65Z9D

XBR-65X750D

XBR-55X700D

XBR-49X800D

XBR-49X700D

XBR-43X800D

Hopefully they will roll it out to more models later.

For more information here is the official beta information:

https://esupport.sony.com/info/1709/US/EN/#supported_tv

PS. You can buy Sony Bravia smart TVs from Amazon UK with next day delivery.