Refuses to play DVDs

My i5 iMac refuses to play or even accept DVDs. Music CDs and applications disks are fine, but whenever I insert a DVD the drive spins and ejects it automatically.
This happens even if I have DVD Player open. Anyone have any idea why its doing this or any suggestions for a fix?

I found a thread in this forum which describes a similar theme:
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=19747&messageID=72404
Sometimes such error appears because the drive does not support the medium.
Fact is not every medium is supported by the drives and I believe in the user manual you will find an index of compatible CDs or DVDs
Possibly the drive is defective and can not calibrate lens in the right position.
But this notebook is not very old and I can not imagine the drive is defective
However nothing is impossible.
What you can do is to clean gently the lens and see it this will help.

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