On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:30:40 -0600, "Jo-Anne"
wrote:

I bought all seven seasons of Grey's Anatomy to watch on my 3.5-year-old
WinXP laptop computer (using VLC Media Player). I've had some minor problems
with seasons 1-5 and season 7. Season 6, however, is the worst. It takes
about 30 seconds for each DVD to start playing after I click "Play." In
fact, I was sure the first DVD wasn't going to play at all when suddenly it
started.

As the DVD began playing, I noticed something on-screen about its being a
Blu-Ray disc. When I bought this season, there was no indication that the
DVDs were Blu-Ray. Once I saw the on-screen notice, I checked the box--and
there's an insert in a pocket that says it's a Blu-Ray set. (There's no such
insert in the season 7 set.)

Is it possible that the Blu-Ray format is causing the problem on my laptop?
Is there any other explanation?

I've seen other BluRay players that took about that long to start, so
it doesn't seem out of the question. The important thing is that it
looks like you intended to buy a DVD set and somehow ended up with a
BluRay set! Luckily, your laptop apparently has a BluRay player.