Laptop not playing DVDs

Simon_Brown_2

Another question about Sony laptop:

Sony Vaio SVF152C29M. Using Windows 8.

Will not play DVDs. It has a DVD drive - but does not play any when inserted.
Any ideas?

Thanks.

toshi

Install VLC player to your computer, and see what would happen.



https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Neil_Jones

Or laser's gone in the DVD drive. No software will fix this, a new drive would be needed.

PDC

Have you tried a few different disks? - Only mention that as I've ran into this where there are now a few formats of higher capacity DVDs.

My Laptop will only play standard ones and I've bought a couple of releases more recently only to find it won't play them, but my DVD player will.

AndyPix

Does the laptop acknowledge that there is a disk in the drive ?
Can you browse the contents, or is it as if there is no disk ?


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Simon_Brown_2

Thanks for all the replies.
I haven't got the DVD with me at the moment.

I'll try a few and see.