Uh Oh! (Don't Panic... but...Oh Nooo!)
A quick entry for you kind readers this week.. based on an all too true and all too common fear of technology in the courtroom.
Not long ago we had a client ask us to produce a DVD for a court presentation of an expert witness' deposition; a "No-Brainer" around here at Video Resources, but, this was a new, unexplored frontier for the client. We had been given the orignial taped depo on a Monday (it had been taken on the previous Friday) and we were asked to redact a series of comments that the Defense had objected to prior to viewing by the jury on the following day, Tuesday . Again - this is a "No-Brainer" over here but was viewed as no less than "Black Magic" by our client.
The following morning the client took possession of her precious DVD and headed off to a day of battle at the Central Courthouse here in Orange County, CA. We had taken the time to "QC" the DVD (Quality Control review) before delivery and it had passed muster.
All was good. The Universe was in harmony - life was "in balance".
This was going to be a "first" for our attorney - she wanted to make sure everything ran flawlessly and I had assured her that all she had to do was pop this little disk into the court's DVD player and push the "ON' button - a "No Brainer" indeed.
We got the panicked call just before the jury was about to take a quick break.
SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH THE DVD! It was playing in black and white rather than billiant color! Oh my God! Oh My God!.. or words to that effect.
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