{"id":217873,"date":"2025-07-14T19:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/indias-richest-man-wants-to-turn-every-tv-into-a-pc"},"modified":"2025-07-14T19:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:07:10","slug":"indias-richest-man-wants-to-turn-every-tv-into-a-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/indias-richest-man-wants-to-turn-every-tv-into-a-pc","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s richest man wants to turn every TV into a PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/indias-richest-man-wants-to-turn-every-tv-into-a-pc.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jio Platforms, the digital arm of Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reliancejio\/status\/1943629895634214966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">launched<\/a> a virtual desktop service for set-top box users. This means that India\u2019s richest man, Reliance\u2019s chairman Mukesh Ambani, hopes to turn millions of TVs in the world\u2019s most populous country into PCs.<\/p>\n<p>Called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jio.com\/jiopc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">JioPC<\/a>, the service offers a cloud-based PC experience through Jio\u2019s set-top box, which comes bundled for free with the telco\u2019s home broadband service or can be purchased separately for \u20b95,499 ($64). Currently in free trial and available via waitlist, users can access the virtual desktop on their TV by plugging in a keyboard and mouse once they receive an invite and set up their account.<\/p>\n<p>At present, the service has some limitations, including no support for external peripherals, such as cameras and printers. Similarly, it supports open source LibreOffice, which is pre-installed. To use Microsoft Office apps, users need to access them via the available browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jio Platforms, the digital arm of Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, has launched a virtual desktop service for set-top box users. This means that India\u2019s richest man, Reliance\u2019s chairman Mukesh Ambani, hopes to turn millions of TVs in the world\u2019s most populous country into PCs. Called JioPC, the service offers a cloud-based PC experience through Jio\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}