My laptop has PMS. Seriously, the CD/DVD drive does whatever it wants these days. It is incredibly picky when it comes to DVDs. It likes some and plays fine, others skip around even when clean, and some other still either don't play or the drive will make weird sounds (only when it gets a DVD it dislikes). It was fine a few months ago and played everything back then. One could argue the drive is going bad, but given that this is a new computer and more importantly that it likes some DVDs and not others, I can't figure out what's going on. I have an Asus laptop and have both Windows Media Player and VLC Player, both have the same issues when playing a DVD. The drive under device manager says it's working correctly. I can't find any updates online for my drive either. Any clues? How is it possible it plays some and not others? All the DVDs are all region 1, which the computer is also set to. Also, the drive seems to work better when the laptop is placed on my lap at an angle, though nothing seems to be loose and it appears sturdy. Help!! Please tell me there is no gremlin in there.