HELP some dvds now won't play

I played a new dvd movie OK but the next day when I tried to play it I got a blue screen with title of the movie plus PLAY or LIBRARY. Clicking PLAY just refreshed the screen. I tried to play another DVD movie which played OK before & got the same result. I can play either DVD on an XP machine...

Is it true that I need 3rd party software installed in order to play DVDs via the Windows Media Player. I seems to me that when I tried this I got a message to that effect. So, I have to purchase something like WinDVD or PowerDVD before I can watch a DVD movie???? $200 for Win7 and I got to...

Hi all was wondering if someone could help me, My DVD rom drive will not read dvds or dvd software but it will play cds, This has happened before to me but I was able to call someone, It happened after I Uninstalled Norton and I had to remove a key and restart the laptop up and it worked, But I...

For some reason my DVD rom drive isn't working anymore. I'm guessing it's a software issue as it can see the DVD but just can't play them. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Hi everyone, I recently downloaded Windows 7 on an HP DV2000 laptop 32-bit laptop. I can't seem to play DVDs. If I put a DVD in the cd-drive the DVD does not automatically launch. If I click on my computer I get an error message when clicking on the DVD. If I launch Windows Media Center...