March 10, 1998
I took a vacation day from work to finish and mail the grant
proposal that I'd been putting off all month. Before getting
to that task, I walked over to ANS, a video duplication house, and asked
them to make a clone (an exact digital copy) of the D2 to protect it against
the rigors of mass VHS duplication. ANS had previously quoted me
the lowest price ($157.50) when I had shopped around for this service back
in January, but today they tacked an extra $100 onto the price because
I wanted to copy onto my own video stock, even though I had told them plainly
about using my own video stock when I'd called them. I left and walked
to Ace Video, the second lowest bidder; but after a series of delays and
confusions they told me that they didn't have the equipment to duplicate
94-minute D2 tapes; I lost confidence in the place and didn't even try
to talk to the technician there who had told me otherwise. So now
I have to shop for a duplicator again, and possibly pay as much as $250
for the D2 clone. Robin gave me a few new leads, which I'll
try tomorrow.
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