No picture on DVD

Hi. When I play DVD's on my T61, I can watch the previews but when the actual movie starts, the screen goes dark except for a small green square in the upper left corner. Sound is fine so I can hear that the feature is playing. This same problem happens in all three of the media players I have tried so it must be my laptop and not the media player. Can anyone help to problem solve? Thanks, barbara

The exact same problem that Barbara is having just started happening on MY T61. Exactly. I have played DVDs on it before just fine. Any ideas as to what this could be?
barbaradb wrote:
Hi. When I play DVD's on my T61, I can watch the previews but when the actual movie starts, the screen goes dark except for a small green square in the upper left corner. Sound is fine so I can hear that the feature is playing. This same problem happens in all three of the media players I have tried so it must be my laptop and not the media player. Can anyone help to problem solve? Thanks, barbara

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