Did you download and install this update from HP?
InterVideo WinDVD Player
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...77-1Additional updates for your HP 530 notebook are also available:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...ID=2094--Carey FrischMicrosoft MVPWindows Shell/User----------------------------------------------------------------------"sean stephen" wrote:I'm a newcomer to the pc world and i need soem advice..please.! i havewindows vista home basic installed on an HP 530 notebook. i have had troubleplaying certain DVD's ...in particular collection of James Bond movies...nokidding. anyway, i've downloaded a vlc media player as well as Realplayer inorder to view these movies because windows media player 11 wouldn't. itseemed the laser just wouldn't read the disc...it battled to pick upanything..made a kind of chugging sound repeatedly and the little timer wheeljust kept going round. so i got the other players loaded, but still nothingworked. i was told that the actual DVD mechanism have have been faulty. thena friend gave me a dvd of Cyberlink's PowerDVD XP version 4. bingo! it workedbut it is outdated and not vista compatible. since it's dated, there seem tobe no updates available for it. can i continue to use it even though it's notcompatible? what problems might i encounter? please advisesean