To improve the user experience, Mi India starts rolling out new features to its popular Android TV skin PatchWall 3.0. The new features are available to all Mi Smart TVs in India. The new PatchWall update brings 3 new features – Immersive carousel, User Centre and Live TV.
User Centre – The new update includes a dedicated User Centre that acts as a personal hub for users. It creates personalized space and acts as a hub for a number of unique features such as ‘My Watchlist’ that lets you watch all your favourite content across apps and discover it via the User Centre page. My Watchlist also allows you to continue playing your last watched content and easy navigation to your wishlist or your subscribed OTT platforms. It also showcases the content that is trending, upcoming, and the one that is currently available on PatchWall.
Immersive Carousel – Users can browse through a list of recommendations of similar content in tune with the current content they are watching on the carousel. The immersive carousel also provides comprehensive details for all TV shows, movies etc.
Live TV – Live TV feature now available to all linear channels. The catalogue of new live TV service providers includes live content from Hungama, ABP, Republic TV, EpicOn, Hoichoi and SunNXT. The regional experience is amped up under the SunNXT umbrella with Gemini, Surya, Udaya, Sun and KTV offering premier movies and shows in four Southern languages. The Live content has been categorized under seven sections on the Live Channels namely Live News, Free to Watch, Live Music, watch in HD, Comedy Anytime, and Explore More.
Commenting on the announcement Eshwar Nilakantan, Category head for TV at Mi India, said, “Over the last 2 years, we have worked towards providing the best of hardware and software to our users and introduced features that truly amplify their content and user experience. By bringing features such as Immersive Carousel, User Centre, Live TV among others, we are looking at offering a more personalised and immersive carousel experience to our Mi Fans and consumers. ”