Amazon miniTV is a Free Video Platform Within the Amazon App
May. 15, 2021Amazon has started rolling out a video platform within the primary Amazon shopping app for users in India. Dubbed miniTV, the free video streaming service is live on the latest Amazon app for Android users.
The Amazon miniTV service is available for free andcurrently shows select web series, comedy shows, and lifestyle videos. The web series section is primarily dominated by ‘The Viral Fever’ (better known as TVF) at the moment.
The lifestyle section includes videos from fashion influencers such as Sejal Kumar, Malvika Sitlani, Anaysa, and more. It even has some technology videos from YouTuber Trakin Tech available to stream within the app.“In the coming months, miniTV will add many more new and exclusive videos,”says Amazon in anofficial blog post.
As of this writing, the feature doesn’t have a prominent section in the app’s sidebar. Instead, you canaccess it through a banner on the home page. You can access miniTV by tapping the banner found on theAmazonapp’s home page, as you can see in the image below:
The user interface is similar to what you get on the Prime Video app. So check out a few screenshots of Amazon miniTV below:
The company has alsoadded parental controlsto miniTV that lets parents restrict videos that are not suitable for children younger than 13 years:
With miniTV, Amazon might be planning to establish a product that competes against its arch-nemesis Flipkart and itsFlipkart Videoservice. We’ve reached out to Amazon India for more details on the service and will update this article once we hear back.
Editor’s Note: We’ve updated certain sections of this article to include official details of the miniTV service announced by Amazon.
Subin writes about consumer tech, software, and security. He secretly misses the headphone jack while pretending he’s better off with the wireless freedom.
