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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...best luck with the Home Theater Master SL-8000 ($79). It had my TV up and running in 20 seconds. I tried my cable box next. It's a harder case: the remote it came with is so lame it can't even turn up the volume. The SL-8000 had it working inside of a minute. Volume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Control Freak | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...about five minutes back in 1993--and it was old when she bought it. Ladies and gentlemen, for 10 years I've had to get up and walk across the room every time I wanted to fast-forward through the sad parts in On Golden Pond, but the SL-8000 had my VCR begging for mercy in just under 10 seconds. That did it. I swept all my now superfluous remotes off the coffee table and threw them into a shoe box in the back of the hall closet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Control Freak | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...across the American West Coast, jamming on his keyboards at smoky coffeehouses for more than a decade before cutting three albums with his band SadSadFun. Which is why when the 29-year-old Chulada deejays at Mecca, a velvet-draped club in San Francisco, he only uses Technics SL-1200 direct-drive turntables to spin his favorite vinyls. "When I used the Tech 12s, I feel like I'm playing a real musical instrument," he says, his fingers, with blue-varnished nails, keeping time to the lush, melodic Frisco beat. "With other turntables, I'm just using a record player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techno Fetishes | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...SL: There are plenty, and we all know what those shows are. My film is supposed to reflect that; it is an indictment of the people who write and accept those shows, because we know that they exist today. It also has to do with the $1 million question: What is black? It is a never-ending quest for who we are, and some people are still in search of that...

Author: By Rebecca Cantu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: About Face: An Interview with Spike Lee | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...SL: Yes, I do. Maybe not a version as explicit, but think about it - a lot of gangster rap music videos are minstrel shows in themselves...

Author: By Rebecca Cantu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: About Face: An Interview with Spike Lee | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

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