"Attendees at this week's International Consumer Electronics Show caught a glimpse of the future Thursday.
And in some cases, the future looked better than life as we know it.
Take, for example, the battle raging between a pair of rival technologies vying to replace today's digital video discs with a newer, high-definition standard.
Proponents of Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD each did their best to impress the 140,000 or so tech lovers in Las Vegas, rolling out truer-than-life screenings of Hollywood hits and duds such as 'Stealth,' 'Chicken Little' and last year's big-screen version of 'The Dukes of Hazzard.'
Aided by both formats' improved abilities displayed on ultra-crisp plasma screens, Jessica Simpson never looked so good.
The big-screen version of Hollywood's latest blond bombshell wasn't the only eye-catcher on display, however." [
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