"you have inserted a blank DVD"...but it isn't blank!!

Tried a DVD a few weeks ago and after a while a message came up saying it had encountered an error and could not continue playing. When we tried the disk again we just got the "this is a blank DVD, what would you like me to do" message that comes up when you insert blank DVDs. We tried two other disks - one of them got the message, and one of them didn't and played fine.
It has happened a few times since - in the middle of playing it will encounter an "error" and just keep giving me the blank DVD message.
I tried a cleaning disk and that worked at first, but soon enough it was up to its old tricks again, and now it is even claiming that the cleaning disk is a blank DVD.
CDs have always played fine, even when it previously refused DVDS, but when I put one in to check just now, not all songs were listed and three or four were listed as being 15 hours long.
So is this a problem with the drive rather than with DVD player?
Does it sound dirty or just plain broken?
I've just been reading the "firmwear killed my superdrive" thread, and I did update firmwear around the time the trouble started, though I don't use the DVD player that often and can't remember if it was before or after. Could that have caused this? But if so, surely it would be broken all the time and not able to intermittently read disks?
Help please!
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