Can't play all DVDs

I have a SONY DVD RW DW-U10A in my imac 17". It won't play all DVDs films brought frm shops. Most of them won't play and others just crash at the same time on each disc. I know all the disc are alright as they work on other machines. My disc drive reads other types of cds and dvds fine. what is going on

Hi,
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