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An HD future on display at CES
With more than 20,000 product launches packed into the span of just four days, January’s Consumer Electronics Show surely thrilled the throng of technophil

With more than 20,000 product launches packed into the span of just four days, January’s Consumer Electronics Show surely thrilled the throng of technophiles in attendance. For everybody else, the event probably seemed more like a techno-blur.

Considering that some of the most noteworthy introductions dealt with ultra-sharp high-definition LCD televisions and HD-DVD players, there’s a certain amount of irony in that analogy. But even if you possessed only the most basic understanding of HD technology, you couldn’t help but be impressed by the huge number of LCD, plasma and rear-projection flat-screen tvs on display at the show.