US Firestick in the UK

stoofa · 28 Feb 2020 at 14:49

Potentially silly question - I'll ask it anyway.
Anything to stop me using a Firestick from the US in the UK?

Brother was looking for a Firestick - 20% Ebay code earlier this week and he's sourced a still sealed, brand new Firestick 4k for £32.
It's arrived, sealed in retail packaging with a US to UK plug in the box - so the power issue is resolved.

Just a matter of plugging it into the UK, logging into Amazon account and then installing all the apps for the UK - Netflix, BBC, ITV, C4 etc?
If won't be anything silly and have US channel apps and no way to remove them or to install UK ones?

wedrum · 28 Feb 2020 at 14:52

works all over the world

stoofa · 28 Feb 2020 at 15:13

I was hoping that would be the case - thanks.

jpaul · 28 Feb 2020 at 23:09

For rokus, US ones don't play iplayer.

mid_gen · 29 Feb 2020 at 10:30

You can change the region on them, depends which Amazon account you login in with. I've switched mine back and forth between UK and Germany a few times.

stoofa · 29 Feb 2020 at 19:58

Popped around to brother's today - plugged in the US stick with the ethernet adaptor. At first screen selected English (UK) and that was it - logged into UK Amazon account, downloaded Netflix, iPlayer, ITV Hub etc
So indeed, just worked. Cannot grumble at the 4k Stick for £32.