Are you having comparable difficulties with your roses? If so, tell us about those difficulties & we'll try to be of some assistance. There are a number of acknowledged experts (I'm not one of them) that frequent this forum.

You need to place your question on an electronics forum for computer help. I have no idea.

Well, this is embarrassing: posting on the wron forum. I was distracted because I was having difficulty logging in and came back to this page to see if it was easier. Duh!
If I only knew how to delete this posting...

Ofcourse this is wrong forum for such post but to help you a little i must say this is a strange problem and DVD player should not offer such problem...
Have you contacted those from where you had buy that??
I found no reason for this...

One reason I haven't bought some of the gardening CDs I crave is that they aren't for North American consumption. Some really good gardening stuff from Britain is only available for the British/European format.
(The Quest for the Rose had this problem for a video, way back when)
Could your source have gotten the reader that works in another part of the world?

Nothing wrong with asking as my Dad used to say! Is this a store bought Compact Disc or one that someone made for you?

It won't open any CD.

I took it to my 'go to' guy, and he tried a different DVD player-- no problem, so it's time to buy a replacement.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Steve.