DVD fails to play the VIDEO

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I have a Sony Vaio (FRV-27) laptop. For the past few days o have not been
able to play my DVDs. The player screen goes black and i can only hear the
sound. I tried various options - changed the Display setting. Set the Color
to 16-bit as mentioned in the HELP. But still i am not able to get any image
on the screen.
I have also been updating my WINDOWS XP regularly.
I have a RADEON IGP 345M display.
This problem has just surfaced recently.

Please advise.