If old, well, repair is more than a new one. There are tomes on the web about how there are 2 LASERs so very unusual for it to be software.
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My LG BP 330 will not play standard DVDs. It ejects them several seconds after putting them in. Blu Ray disks play just fine. Could this be a software problem?

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