# Stoopid DVD Player

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoopid-dvd-player/240690>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 18, 2004, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoopid-dvd-player/240690 "2004-04-18T17:25:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoopid-dvd-player/240690/1 "2004-04-18T17:25:48Z")

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Running Windows XP. My DVD player has suddenly refused to recognize DVDs. It will run programs and install them from CDs and play audio CDs, but when you put a DVD in, it will just hang there looking stupid and will most times even refuse to eject the DVD. It worked fine a few days ago; the only thing I’ve done in the interim is to install QuickTime. But I’ve now uninstalled that and it still does not work.

What should I be looking for?

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**Author:** ![Tower\_Dweller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tower\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tower_Dweller)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoopid-dvd-player/240690/2 "2004-04-18T17:28:45Z")

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Besides the DVD drive, you also need DVD playing software. I would have to guess that installing Quicktime messed up your DVD playing software.

Try reinstalling your DVD software and see if that helps.

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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoopid-dvd-player/240690/3 "2004-04-18T17:31:42Z")

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> [@Tower Dweller](#):
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> Besides the DVD drive, you also need DVD playing software. I would have to guess that installing Quicktime messed up your DVD playing software.
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> Try reinstalling your DVD software and see if that helps.

Yep … done that already. The drive won’t even recognize a disc as a DVD to start the software. But I have reinstalled it just in case.

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**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoopid-dvd-player/240690/4 "2004-04-18T18:43:27Z")

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Quicktime is the devils tool. Right up there with real player. It sinks it’s slimy tendrils into every video program you have.

Let this be a lesson for you.

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**Author:** ![daffyduck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ec9cab/32.png) [@daffyduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/daffyduck)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stoopid-dvd-player/240690/5 "2004-04-18T19:01:00Z")

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Well I see two things here. “XP” and “worked fine a few days ago” and I’m thinking “System Restore.”

The people who decided how Quicktime would install and what lies it would tell you about itself were not nice people.