[oak perl] Re: OT: LCD projector rental

[Mark Theodoropoulos]

I was the one who asked about this several months ago, and I'm happy to 
report that I was *extremely* pleased with Oakland Audio-Visual 
Services (actually in San Leandro). They will deliver and pick up 
anywhere in the Bay Area for a very reasonable amount (e.g. 10 bux each 
way for Berkeley). Delivery includes complete setup and test.

Huge inventory. Excellent sales help -- bent over backwards to be sure 
we'd have a setup that met our needs. The tech they sent out was plenty 
experienced and took care of everything -- roughly like finding your 
budget rental car comes with a chauffeur, mechanic, and chef. As far as 
I'm concerned, this is the outfit I'll be using from here on out.  

They were great on the phone, but I'd recommend getting oriented at 
www.oavs.com before you call. Downloading the PDFs of the catalog and 
forms will speed things up for you.

Hope this helps.

Mark Theodoropoulos
Berkeley


Incidentally, as you can imagine, handing out machines whose mere 
replacement bulbs cost $300 or so is not exactly a low-overhead, low-
expense business, so projector rentals are not cheap; don't expect to 
get away with spending less than, er, the cost of a bulb. :)


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<mtheo>
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