Just beyond the Intel and Microsoft booths where gaming is the major emphasis, little innovations are making a big splash at the LG and Panasonic booths. For the consumer too impatient to wait for the Blu-Ray/HD DVD dust to settle, LG’s Super Multi Blue player may strike just the right chord. It was only time before someone jumped on the dual-format wagon, and it seems LG has found a compromise worthy of the consumer market. Outside of listing specs, I can say the player performs exactly as it’s supposed to. Every disc put into the drive is treated the same way on the screen, offering care- and worry-free operation. LG accomplished the feat by producing a dual-laser read head; one for HD DVD and one for Blu-ray. The player automatically chooses the correct format of the disc after it is inserted. Also available is a combination drive for PCs, offering Blu-Ray rewritable capability as well as HD DVD playback. For televisions, LG and Panasonic are showcasing technologies that almost completely remove the motion blur most flat panel plasma and LCD screens are prone to showing. The resulting picture is cinematic and shockingly life-like—as close to a "perfect" picture as I’ve experienced thus far.