I bought a Packard Bell laptop about 5 months ago. It has Vista, windows media player, windows media centre but when I try and play a DVD (proper shop bought dvd, not one I've made myself), nothing happens. I've tried windows media player but it only seems to want to play CDs, and the windows media player says there isn't a dvd in the drive. I've played CDs on this laptop as well as data discs and they've been fine. There is a dvd r/rw symbol on the drive so I assume it's suppose to play dvds. I bought the laptop from pc world where they said this particular laptop was good for gaming and multimedia but that's what it appears! Please help!

If it's under warranty, take it back to the store. How do you know when a politician is lying? His mouth is moving.

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Claire Cooke, Not sure what version of Vista you've got, but JSYK, Vista Home Basic, Business & Enterprise do not feature a complete decoder pack for DVD playback, unlike Home Premium or Ultimate. But you don't have to upgrade, you can download VLC or MPC Home Cinema & you should be good to go as far DVD playback is concerned. Windows 7 News!