My iPad quit playing movies.

My ipad has been working great. Now for the last several days, if I select the Videos button, nothing happens. . . meaning that I can't play movies. I'm running iOS 4.3.3 and have over 40GB of free space. Turning it off then on had no effect. Viewing the contents on my laptop (through iTunes) indicates that the movies are still on the ipad. Is there any way to correct this other than a restore? Thanks!

Have you tried closing the Videos app completely ? From the home screen double-click the home button to bring up the taskbar, then press and hold any of the apps on the taskbar for a couple of seconds or so until they start shaking, then press the '-' in the top left of the Video app to close it, and touch any part of the screen above the taskbar so as to stop the shaking and close the taskbar.
If that doesn't work then you could try a reset : press and hold both the sleep and home buttons for about 10 to 15 seconds (ignore the red slider), after which the Apple logo should appear - you won't lose any content, it's the iPad equivalent of a reboot.

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