Old Mi TV users are fuming

A lot of them believe that Flipkart joined hands in cheating the early adopters. There are many threads on it, but this one explains a lot

Why old Mi TV users are asking for Play Store support ? - Mi TV - Mi Community - Xiaomi

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This is what Chinese OEM do.After they sell their device they will not listen your issues and fix them.I am a OP6 user I know the pain.

Moderator of that forum said in October that the update will come in 2 months. In Jan early, he said definitely this month. Now he is saying definitely this year.

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If there's no playstore then how is this a smart tv?

billubakra said:
If there's no playstore then how is this a smart tv?

Apparently it's only "smarter" than a toaster.

***Old Mi TV users are fuming?***

New TV's are coming with play store in-built?

Are there custom ROMs for smart TVs? If there are, then perhaps an aftermarket ROM can add a play store.

Otherwise, get an external Android TV-box or a RasPi with media center software on it, though this would defeat the purpose of owning a smart TV.

You can get a raspberry pi and run openElec which is a much better solution than any software, xiaomi throws in tvs.

Flash said:
New TV's are coming with play store in-built?

Yes. Only those who trusted Mi with an early product are doomed.

billubakra said:
If there's no playstore then how is this a smart tv?

You can add apps by yourself through USB. But sadly, most of them won't work. Good thing is that VLC works.

Desmond David said:
Are there custom ROMs for smart TVs? If there are, then perhaps an aftermarket ROM can add a play store.

Otherwise, get an external Android TV-box or a RasPi with media center software on it, though this would defeat the purpose of owning a smart TV.

I have a Chromecast with me. Sadly, there is no mention about any custom ROM at XDA.

Nerevarine said:
You can get a raspberry pi and run openElec which is a much better solution than any software, xiaomi throws in tvs.

*correction, since your TV is a 4k tv and raspberry pi cant output 4K HDR, better go with Rock64 + OpenElec

My model is 43 inch full HD.