Wish to watch Live TV on your PC or laptop? Here’s how you can install JioTV
While you can use the JioCinema app on your Smart TV and PC, the JioTV app is only available for smartphones and tablets. Here's how you can install Jio TV on a PC or laptop:
In Short
- JioTV currently offers around 822 channels to its customers
- It is popular as you don’t have to pay for cable channels
- Check out how to install JioTV on your laptop/PC
Reliance's JioTV has become quite popular and a good option for watching LIVE TV anytime, anywhere. It is also popular as you don’t have to pay for cable channels and you can watch your favourite channels via the internet.
JioTV currently offers around 822 channels to its customers and even lets you watch the past seven days' shows. The JioTV app comes with a multilingual user interface in more than 15 languages.
Jio offers JioCinema and JioTv for its users around the globe. While users can use the JioCinema app on their smart TV and PCs, on the other hand, the JioTV app is only available for smartphones and tablets.
How to download live TV?
To a surprise, you will not find a LIVE TV app option on the Microsoft store or on your Android TV.
But you still download it and here’s how you do it:
- For smart TV, download the APK of Jio TV on your PC
- Install it on your Android TV by copy-pasting the APK from a pen drive.
How to watch JioTV on a PC or laptop?
Step 1: Install Bluestacks Android Emulator on your PC or laptop.
Step 2: After downloading it, go to Google Play Store.
Step 3: Search for the JioTV app and install it. Once you download it, it will appear on the home screen of Blue stacks. You can open it whenever you want to.
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Does JioTV work well on laptops/PCs?
Using the Android Emulator for JioTV app on a laptop works really well. You will feel like you are watching it on your smartphone.
When you open the JioTV app, it will appear in portrait mode, but as soon as you click on any channel or episode, you will be able to see them in landscape mode. JioTV app also provides you with an option where you can use the rotate button to watch a video in landscape form.
This button is on the right side of the screen, where all the controls are available. You can also minimize any video just by clicking and dragging it down, just like you do on your smartphone. It also gives you an option to browse through other channels while watching a video.
However, you don’t get the option to record videos that you have on smartphones.