Please Help My MBP is not playing DVD Movies

Hi since I updated from tiger to leopard my DVD player has a mind of its own.
When I insert a DVD movie it tries for 3 times and ejects the DVD out. If I try repeatedly then after 5 - 10 attempts it plays the Movies, but thats not the case always.
Any suggestions. Any advice is appreciated thanks
Dinku

I recently had a similar problem. I upgraded all of my software on osx. i tried burning a dvd, and it crapped out half way through. since then any dvd I put into it would try and read a couple times, and then eject. CD-R's worked fine. I had to take it to the apple store, and exchange it, which was kind of a pain (i had to back up using time machine, and restore using time machine.... but at least I got to test out the time machine feature. i like it. im inclined to start regularly backing up) i got home, restored my macbook, upgraded, tried burning a dvd.. it worked so i guess you got a defective drive like me. my model was GSN-10S or something like that.

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