Jio Cinema Set to Enhance IPL 2023 Viewer Experience With Technology-driven Sports Spectacle

Last Update: January 30, 2023, 22:36 IST

IPL 2022 Closing Ceremony (iplt20.com)

IPL 2022 Closing Ceremony (iplt20.com)

This technology will allow a Jio Cinema user to check all these elements with a single click instead of waiting for the broadcaster to screen them.

The upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is all set to be live-streamed on the Jio Cinema application. Apart from offering a high-definition feed on a 6-inch mobile screen, the application is also going to provide a technologically advanced experience to its viewers.

News18 CricketNext has learned that the digital broadcast of IPL 2023 is about to get bigger and better. In the realm of ‘Live Sports Broadcast’, the idea of ​​’Appointment Viewing’ is set to give a vastly expanded experience to cricket viewers across the country.

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How to understand ‘appointment viewing’?

We all have seen that from time to time, during a game of cricket on television or online, scorecards, statistics, graphics, wagon wheels and records keep flashing on the screen. These graphics give an idea about the whereabouts of an ongoing game or a particular player. However, viewers have to wait to see those graphics as they roll out on screen as the broadcaster wishes. In comes ‘Appointment Viewing’ as a game changer.

The technology will allow a Jio Cinema user to watch all these elements with a single click, instead of waiting for the broadcaster to screen them.

For example, Virat Kohli Bats with a tailender to take the score past 200. A spectator wants to know what is the partnership between number 3 and number 10 batsman in IPL or what is it about – someone is watching the chase and wants to see the strike rate at which the team is chasing before opting to bat Compared to the team with Seeing it all in real time.

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Will Jio Cinema broadcast IPL live for free?

Earlier, a user needed to obtain a hotstar Subscription to watch live stream of IPL. But now since the digital broadcaster of IPL has changed, several media reports have claimed that Jio Cinema is going to live stream IPL games for free. However, there is no clarity on this from the decision makers.

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