Why won't my laptop play DVDs anymore?

I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 that is about a year old. When I first got it, it played DVDs perfectly. Now the movie jumps and sputters all over the place when I try to play it.

I know it's not the fault of the DVD itself, because all the DVDs I have tried still work fine in other players.

I know it's not the DVD playing software, because I have tried all of them I can think of. From VLC, to Dell Media Experience, to even *gasp* Windows Media Player. They all react the same.

I'm pretty sure that it's not a virus or spyware, because I have run massive searches with multiple antispyware and antivirus programs.

I know it's not having too many programs open, because I have ran EndItAll before trying to play a DVD with no difference.

I know it's not lack of hard drive space, because I just recently eliminated about 8GB through uninstalling old programs, and deleting old documents, pictures, and music.

I already tried increasing Virtual Memory.

I'm pretty sure it's not the DVD drive.

Why won't my laptop play DVDs anymore?microsoft

It is the drive, Dell had some models of notebooks with this problemthey get to hot and do funky things,you can replace it or ue a external player which ae cheap nowadays......

Why won't my laptop play DVDs anymore?norton ghost