Having a problem with my Lenovo laptop. It came with Cyberlink PowerDVD installed, but when I put a dvd in the drive it won't go past the usual copyright warning screen of the film. These are region 2 dvds (I'm from the UK), bought from a shop, not copied or anything. As far as I can tell the PowerDVD is set for region 2 (although I could be wrong). I've tried several dvds and they only go as far as the copyright page. I've tried them in media player and it SAYS the disc (E) is empty.

Any ideas anyone?Here are the settings for PowerDVD:

Player information:
  Player region code: 2
  Current drive: E:
  Title region code: 2

Display information:
  Video mode: Progressive
  Display mode: DirectDraw
  FourCC code: YUY2
  Surface type: Overlay

Video attributes:
  Video compression mode: MPEG-2 (DxVA off)
  TV system: 625/50 (PAL)
  Aspect ratio: 16:9
  Display mode: Only Letterbox
  Source picture resolution: 720x576 (625/50)
  Frame rate: 25.00
  Source picture letterboxed: Not letterboxed
  Bitrate: 16.46Mbps

Audio attributes:
Audio attributes:  Dolby Digital
  Sampling rate: 48kHz
  Audio application mode: Not Specified
  Number of audio channels:2.0
  Bitrate: 256 Kbps
  Number of audio streams: 1

Subpicture attribute: Not available

Hardware Information:
  Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4210U CPU running at 2394 MHz
  3DNow! technology:  Not Detected
  Enhanced 3DNow! technology:  Not Detected
  3DNow! professional technology:  Not Detected
  IA MMX technology:  In Use
  IA sStreaming SIMD extensions:  In Use
  IA SSE 2:  In Use
  Video accelerator:  DirectX VA (not in use)
  Multispeaker audio device:  Speakers (Conexant SmartAudio HD) (not in use)
  S/PDIF output device:  Not Detected
How old is this laptop ? ?...sounds like the drive itself has gone South...A couple of years, but the drive has hardly been used at all. In Properties it says the device is working properly, and it played a dvd of a show recorded from TV, so it looks to me as though it's just films bought from shops it doesn't want to play.Stopping after the copyright notice is a RESULT of the Disc  using a protection scheme that isn't supported by the DVD Player, BASED on what I'm able to find.

Maybe another DVD playback SOFTWARE, such as VLC Media Player, might work?