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| Company type | Subsidiary ofAmerica Online |
|---|---|
| Industry | Internet Protocol television |
| Founded | June 2000; 25 years ago (2000-06) |
| Defunct | 2002 |
| Fate | Discontinued |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | nationwide in USA |
Key people | Anne Bentley (spokeswomen) David Nagel (board member) Tom Nagel (board member) James Barksdale (board member) Larry Ellison (board member) Mitchell Kertzman (early CEO and president) Philip Vachon (later CEO) |
| Products | IPTV |
| Parent | AOL |
| Website | aoltv.com (Not active) |
AOL TV was the name of both athin client which uses atelevision for display (rather than amonitor), and theonline service that supports it, both of which were launched in June 2000 to compete withWebTV.
The product and service were developed byAmerica Online. While mostthin clients developed in the mid-1990s were positioned as diskless workstations for corporateintranets, AOL TV was positioned as a consumer device for web access. Since the device was a dedicated web browser appliance, the cost of licensing aproprietaryoperating system could be avoided. The cost of licensing aproprietary operating system is substantial for inexpensive devices.
The set top box for AOL TV was developed by NCI/Liberate using athin client and manufactured byPhilips.[1][2][3]
AOL TV discontinued sales in November 2002, although the service remained available to existing subscribers.[4] The service is no longer supported by AOL and the documentation has been removed from their servers.
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