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...member but want supercheap Net access, WebTV's $100 classic model plus a $20 monthly fee is a bargain. The price doesn't include the optional (but highly desirable) wireless keyboard or access to the interactive-TV features, but it gives newbies a cheap way to dip their toes in cyberspace...
WebTV's other advantage is its range of choices, from a bare-bones unit for $99 to a souped-up model combining satellite TV, digital recording and Net access for $449. Monthly fees range from $10 to $75. AOLTV, on the other hand, will launch with no digital-recording features (although it promises them later in the year as part of the deal it announced with TiVo last week). And everyone who buys AOLTV will have to pay $250 for the box plus a monthly fee of $14.95 (for existing AOL members) or $24.95 (for new users...
FULL SPEED AHEAD Got a penchant for speeding? Some help is on the way. The National Motorist Association is offering to pay your tickets for you--for a small fee. Members pay a minimum of $5 a month and get $100 worth of fines paid by the NMA. If you tend to garner traffic fines or find parking tickets piling up on your windshield, then for $50 you can receive $1,000 of coverage. Plus, the NMA is so open-minded it will even cover drunk-driving fines. But be careful: that doesn't give you license to drive drunk...
What he's banking on is that the majority of music fans will be prepared to pay a minimal monthly fee--around the price of a single CD--to have online access to thousands of albums. This music channel--along with the CDs already in their collections--will be available anywhere there's an Internet connection. Robertson believes the mainstream will choose this limited-pay model over legally dubious networks like Napster and Freenet. Thus far the rise of MP3s "has been painted as a college-kids-gone-crazy phenomenon," he says. "In fact, it cuts across all walks...
That includes classical-music aficionados, currently the fourth largest group on MP3.com who made a willing audience for the site's first such monthly-fee channel. "They're the techno-elite," says Robertson. "Also, these people have disposable income." For $9.99 a month, there are thousands of fully downloadable tracks. It's all-you-can-eat Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman and London Symphony. A second channel for children featuring fairy tales and nursery rhymes as well as songs is set for launch in July...