With HDR processing coming into reasonable existence, reasonably static shots can be HDR'd and we reach/surpass the DR of film & our eyes?
I believe that with HDR and multiple exposures, DR is virtually unlimited. Though I read somewhere that the human eye has 24 stops of DR (who knows what that really means). If true, you'd need a about a 4000-fold range in exposure to match that with a DSLR.