Why isn't my DVD working on my macbook pro?

Hello all.
I got my Macbook pro in September 2010 and it's still running well. I used to always play DVDs on it, especially exercise DVDs. Anyway, I popped in one of my exercise DVDs last week, and when I clicked on the CD symbol on the desktop, it would pop up to a window that would go completely blank, and it would start to make weird noises. My DVDs won't play. However, regular CDs work fine and are being recognized. Is there any way we can fix this? My boyfriend tried updating iDVD but it doesn't seem to work. Am I gonna have to take this to the apple store? I'm just afraid that they will charge me, and I don't have apple care. Help! Thank you!

iDVD has nothing to do with Playing DVDs. That is up to the DVD drive and DVD Player found in the Applications folder.
I suspect your CD/DVD drive, the Superdrive as it's called, is failing. It is able to see and read CD disc but can not see and read DVD discs.
If you have Applecare extended Warranty take it in and have the DVD drive replaced. If you don't have that extended warranty then you can just buy an External USB DVD drive and connec that when you want to watch a DVD.

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