Thanks everyone for your feedback - it's good to know i'm not the only one wrestling with unplayable discs, but it's also really useful to hear what Rob has to say about the matter. Still, I was a member of LoveFilm, a similar company back in the UK, and never had any problems playing their rental discs on my laptop - I wonder what they did differently.
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