The second generation of HD DVD and Blu-ray players offers gorgeous video-and a potential way out of the format war

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One glance at the images from high definition discs, and regular DVDs don´t look so great. The first Blu-ray and HD-DVD players were expensive and kludgy. But prices are creeping down. And after obsessively watching Mission Impossible III and Superman Returns on a bunch of new players, we found several polished models with great video quality.

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