Star Wars DVDs not playable

Does somebody on the MBP engineering team have a grudge against The Lucas? I cannot get any of the original trilogy DVDs to play on my MBP. After 30 seconds of whirring the disk is ejected. I even first launched DVD Player, then inserted the disk without any luck. These DVDs play fine on my Intel iMac. Should I take this to a Genius Bar? None of my Mac-savvy friends can think of a solution.
Oh - these DVDs are legit, you know, from Best Buy. Not bought direct from Hong Kong via eBay.
Cheers,
-R

It may be just enough dust got in the drives to make them unreadable.
Note these drives have multiple heads, and just one head has to be dirty for something to not work right. Take it to the genius bar, with DVDs known to work, and those that don't.

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