The DVD players regularly fail on these. It's probably the laser. Try a CD in it, if it plays the CD then that means almost certainly the laser has gone. Your best bet is to forget the built-in player, buy a cheap DVD player and connect it to the SCART socket on the TV.
Martin
April 2009
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