DVD Player not playing discs

My DVD player won't play rental dvd's etc .. I get a message saying "Supported Disk Not Available"
I have successfully played on 2 dvd's on this machine (it's only 2 weeks old) and each of those times i got a message asking my permission to change the region settings plus a warning that i would only be able to change the settings 5 times ... this third attempt at watching a movie (a big reason i bought the 2nd machine - to watch dvd's in my bedroom) it now gives me the 'not supported' message
HELP!!!!!

After some research I tried a suggestion from another forum to repair disk permissions - so far so good (at least the dvd i was trying to watch played no problem)
I did see numerous posts in my travels where people had experienced exactly the samr thing that I had - is there a bug Apple???

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Welcome to the HP Forums!
I understand the computer cannot read CDs. To assist you properly, I do require the following information:
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Martin Bolsinger wrote:
Try to clean the CD/DVD player lens with a lens cleaning CD (available in computer stores). Do not try to fumble around.
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