Some DvD's work, Some don't?!

I have come across an irritating problem on a Macbook Pro 2009 model...
I am trying to watch DvD movies on it. Some DvD's work, some don't. Sometimes it just ejects the DvD automatically, sometimes it claims it's blank, and there are times when the thing actually works - for specific DvD's
I am a bit suspicious with this ordeal. I'm thinking it's the version of my operating system and there's a bug in it that causes some DvD's with certain specs to not work...
For example, the DvD for the actual Harry potter Deathly Hallows P1 movie works, but not the special features. The DvD for the movie "The Number 23" works, but not the one for the "Black Swan".
Thoughts? Broken reader? Bug that needs to be patched? or is Apple being bullies and preventing me from watching "burned" DvD's or something similar because I can't look at any dvd's with manually burned movies.

Hi P,
Super drives are known for being picky about the discs they'll read. It's normally not what's on them, but the brand of disc, or sometimes even the speed it was burned. Do you have two of the exact same brand/model/speed of burned discs and one works while the other doesn't?

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