In the world of smart TVs with Android TV, something similar to what happens in smartphones is starting to happen: Sharing an operating system makes it difficult to tell them apart from each other. This is why there are manufacturers who are starting to sign alliances with different external services to give the extra needed to win purchases. And this extra seems to be that of free tv channels.
We are not talking about those of TNT, accessible to all, but of free streaming channels. Pluto TV, for example, is already integrated with some manufacturers and is coming to the United States with Google’s Chromecast, and now Xiaomi is preparing its own free streaming TV service. It will be called Mi TV + and will arrive next year, in 2022.
Free Live and Online Channels
Apparently, this is a service that the company is currently having in testing and which is appearing on board some Xiaomi TV users in our country. The brand itself confirms its existence and that we would be faced with a free channel service that will be fully operational sometime in 2022. Remember: exclusive for Xiaomi TVs.
So, everything indicates that 2022 is going to heat up for PatchWall, the kind of layer that Xiaomi is putting on Android TV on its smart TVs and that soon you will receive a bundle of free channels thanks to your new service. Right away, at least in this first test version, we will have more than 60 free channels, as our colleagues from Omicrono have seen.
In the test phase, Xiaomi Mi TV + already offers 63 free TV channels and open and covering different themes. There are news, comedy, cinema, science channels and some with big names (sorry for the redundancy) like Bloomberg TV, Motorvision, FashionTV or Space Channel. A wide range of content available from 1 minute for users of oriental brand televisions as soon as they become available.
The Mi TV + free channel service consists of an application, not in the channels integrated into the TNT circuit as in the case of Pluto TV or Rakuten if one refers to Samsung. The app will host all of these channels, as if we were opening Netflix or some other streaming service, and there we would have access to the different channels while we could set up our favorites list to have them all at hand.
In any case, we are talking about a live channel service. Xiaomi Mi TV + will not contain, at least not in its origins, content on demand but will offer a series of channels, increasingly broad thanks to the agreements negotiated by the brand, live. At the moment, we don’t have any information on when it will be released, but we do know what we have already told you. That it will be in 2022, that it will be free and that it will be exclusive to Xiaomi TV users.
Via | Omicrono
